Clash writers pick out their favourites. Here comes the sun, George Harrison once wrote; It s been a long cold lonely winter.
For music fans, this latest lockdown has perhaps bit hardest of all. Starting just before Christmas, it s kept us separated from family and friends, and pinned our lives down away from the places that bring us joy.
Places like record shops. Much more than just money-making ventures, record shops are community hubs, a place for fans to gather, geek out, and emerge penniless clutching slabs of vinyl.
With the country beginning to open up, many of us are making our first trips down to our local record shop for months, re-connecting with the communities we were forced to leave behind.