Record shops stage fightback

For generations of music lovers and budding musicians Saturday afternoons would be whiled away mining for rare gems among the rows of vinyl in dusty wooden-floored record shops, decorated with posters of musical greats and staffed by people with too much musical knowledge. Friendships were formed, bands created, tips swapped, dreams dreamt and stars born. The singer Morrissey gained his musical education at Paul Marsh's record shop in Manchester's Moss Side, for example.

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