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By Anna Doble
Nearly a year since the start of the first UK lockdown, I ve listened to every LP I ve ever bought - and found a diary of my life in the grooves.
I m sitting, typing. The rain spreads across the window in glossy veins. We can t go out, anyway, but the weather adds to the feeling of being stuck. So here I am inside, listening to music so familiar I can hear the next track as the first starts to fade. I flip over the record and reset the needle. And I m crying. Happy tears. memory tears… tears of gratitude. Because you may be in lockdown but I m at the gig of my life and all it took to get here was a song.
I ve been listening to 300 vinyl records to get me through lockdown
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