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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

“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

Metal Hammer

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 Guardian - 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

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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 Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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,…

Evening Standard

HMV reopens on London’s Oxford Street after four-year absence

Retailer returns to site of its first store and lauds revival in sales of physical music formats such as CDs

The Guardian - UK

HMV promises to reach for stars as curtain goes up on reopened Oxford Street flagship store

HMV shut the store in 2019 after the retail chain tumbled into administration and was forced to axe stores and jobs

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The Independent UK

HMV returns to historic Oxford Street shop

HMV shut the store in 2019 after the retail chain tumbled into administration and was forced to axe stores and jobs.

International Business Times

HMV Reopening Raises Revival Hopes For London's Oxford Street

British music retailer HMV returns to the iconic site of its former flagship store in central London on Friday, in a much-needed boost to the flagging fortunes of the capital's premier shopping street.

The Walrus

Why Sunrise Records Is Still Spinning

It survived Napster, iTunes, and streaming. Now the chain is expanding its horizons overseas

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s an emotional day for Liverpool’: fans gather to buy new Beatles single Now and Then

At HMV Liverpool, Beatles heads – including one called John Lennon – queue up for vinyl copies of what is billed as the final Beatles song

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Evening Standard

Which shops are coming back? Paperchase in Tesco and HMV reopens in Oxford Street

After a four-year hiatus, HMV will reopen its former flagship location on London's Oxford Street

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Oxford Street must change or die, because right now it’s dying

Oxford Street was built for lunchtime. At least it was for me. When I worked in the West End, if I wasn’t having a fancy lunch, at one o’clock I’d nip out from my office and spend the best part of an hour wandering up and down it, dipping into…

The Guardian - UK

The Range buys Wilko brand in multimillion-pound deal

The homeware retail brand has also bought the intellectual property rights of Wilko, but none of its stores

The Guardian - UK

Poundland moves to buy 71 Wilko sites with possible jobs guarantee for staff

PwC says owner plans to reopen stores under Poundland brand throwing lifeline to as many as 1,800 staff

The National (Scotland)

Full list of Wilko stores as GMB union says all will close early next month

GMB Union has said all 408 UK Wilko stores will close by next month resulting in more than 12,500 job losses after a rescue bid from HMV's Doug…

The Independent UK

Thousands of jobs at risk after HMV owner’s Wilko rescue bid collapses

Administrators for the high street chain had been in discussions with Doug Putman over a deal to buy around 200 Wilko shops

The Independent UK

Wilko rescue hopes fade as talks with HMV owner collapse

Administrators for the high street chain had been in discussions with Doug Putman over a deal to buy around 200 Wilko shops.

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