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‘I take karaoke seriously. I’ve got a good falsetto’: Asim Chaudhry’s honest playlist

The actor and writer used to be obsessed with Michael Jackson and loves Teddy Pendergrass, but which rap banger does truly inhabit when passed the mic?

The Guardian - UK

From music to books: HMV to open literary space at flagship Oxford Street store

From November 18 an entire floor of the shop will be dedicated to books and literary events

Evening Standard

Price hikes, terrible adverts, customer crackdowns: how the joy in streaming TV died

Disney+ is the latest platform to stop people sharing their password for free. It’s yet another step in an industry meltdown that puts pressure on customers – and leads to genuinely bad television

The Guardian - UK

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Oasis vinyl and CD sales soar after reunion tour confirmed, says HMV

Sales up more than 500%, while streaming of band’s music on Spotify has also surged

The Guardian - UK

‘Looks like £400 a month. That can’t be right!’ Readers on their music spending

Are you keeping an eye on spending thanks to expensive vinyl and concert tickets? Guardian readers explain how they’re keeping fandom alive in a cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

I’m ditching streaming services for Blu-ray this year — and I’m not alone

One UK retailer just reported a rise in physical media sales, and believes streaming might be partly responsible.

Tom’s Guide

Netflix and other streamer price hikes are driving people back to Blu-rays

DVD and Blu-ray disc sales are on the rise again, according to HMV.

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Major UK retailer says its 4K and Blu-ray sales are rising, and it should be a wake-up call for ad-riddled streaming sites

HMV confirms its physical media sales are on the rise – are we finally seeing people steer away from the ever price-increasing streaming giants?

TechRadar

4K Blu-ray strikes back against streaming according to one of Britain's largest entertainment retailers

Take a nail out of that coffin; 4K Blu-ray is fighting back against streaming according to recent sales figures from HMV.

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Best turntables with speakers for a ready-to-use setup, tried and tested

All-inclusive auditory experiences with which to blast your plastic

Evening Standard

Oxford Street 2.0: How £1bn investment will transform candy store blight back into premier shopping destination

Last year one retail boss branded Oxford Street a ‘national embarrassment’ because of the large number of empty premises

Evening Standard

Best retro-style turntables to play vinyl records in 2024

Reject modernity; embrace tradition

Evening Standard

"It's not over": Bruce Dickinson is ready to start writing again for the follow up to his forthcoming new solo album The Mandrake Project, says he "already has 10 or 12 different ideas for it"

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is a busy man, and is already keen to start work on his next project

Metal Hammer

Oxford Street sweeter – with fewer shops empty or selling candy

Openings in past year include HMV, Under Armour and Rituals, with Ikea poised to join them in the autumn

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Best budget record players 2024: Turntables to make the most of your vinyl collection

Low-cost turntables to spin you right round, baby, right round

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“People have been saying it’s one of the greatest lead guitar parts of all time!” While She Sleeps share new single To The Flowers, announce UK record-store tour

UK metalcore favourites While She Sleeps have released the third single from upcoming album Self Hell, accompanied by an emotive music video and news of some UK record-store performances

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"If you were after a girlfriend, by the time you’ve got ten minutes into A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers she’s usually jumped out the window." Bruce Dickinson on his prog heroes

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's 10-song solo album The Mandrake Project will be released on March 1

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Bruce Dickinson announces album signing appearances at five UK record shops

Want to have Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson sign your copy of The Mandrake Project, his first solo album in 19 years? Then try to keep some time free in early March

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The Guardian - UK

The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street

Snow, a bowler hat and an old-fashioned HMV storefront combine to create a yearning for the past in street photographer Stephen Leslie’s 2018 shot

The Independent UK

Holocaust film One Life faces backlash after promo materials omit mention of Jews

The film follows the true story of how Sir Nicolas Winton saved 669 Jewish children from the Nazis during WWII

The Guardian - UK

One Life marketing materials altered following Jewish backlash

The promotional terms for the biopic of ‘British Schindler’ Nicholas Winton have been amended following criticism of the term ‘central European’ to describe the children he saved

The Conversation

HMV is back on Oxford Street bringing the old-school music experience to a new generation

“What musicians want,” said composer Sir Edward Elgar as he inaugurated the first HMV shop in London in 1921, “is more listeners, and the dissemination of good music by the gramophone will give us a new public which will … listen to it with true appreciation.”

The Guardian - UK

Wilko’s former chair tells MPs she was devastated by collapse of retailer

Lisa Wilkinson says her family’s multimillion-pound fortune was not enough to save the chain

The Guardian - UK

Wilko rescue failed because ‘everyone got a little bit greedy’, says HMV owner

Retailer’s suppliers did not think of 12,000-plus jobs that could have been saved, claims Doug Putman

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Hamas must release all the hostages

The Gaza truce is fragile and strictly time-limited but it is, for now, holding. Fighting ceased at 7am local time and is set to last four days. In that period, Hamas has agreed to free at least 50 of the hostages it seized during the attack on October 7. Israel,…

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