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By Mark Savage
image captionVinyl sales approached five million in the UK last year
Amy Winehouse, Ariana Grande, Madness and Bjork are among the artists whose rare and unheard music will be released for Record Store Day 2021.
More than 500 exclusive vinyl records will be issued for the event, which is taking place over two days (12 June and 17 July) due to the pandemic.
They also include a little-known Prince acoustic album, new music from Wolf Alice and two live discs by The Police.
It comes after vinyl sales hit a three-decade high of 4.8 million in 2020.
If the pattern continues, record labels will make more money from vinyl than CDs this year, for the first time since 1987, when Def Leppard, T Pau and Terence Trent D Arby topped the charts.
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Sandinista! It was barely a year after their global breakthrough,
London Calling, which got them a U.S. Top 40 hit with “Train in Vain (Stand by Me).” Yet it sure didn’t sound like a band trying to ride the momentum of their first hit.