I am of the generation that lived through the emergence of the CD player as the dominant vector of music reproduction in the home; stuck then somewhere between the gramophone and the Spotify era. Brothers in Arms was not my first disc; probably my third.
I still use my venerable Technics SL-P220 attached to a tuner/amp of a subtly earlier time in my dining room.
The news, already absorbed from a BBC iPlayer radio app, had saddened me, as it has so frequently this year so far. I thought to regain some cheer by playing the Madness Terry Wogan jingle from disc 2 of The Business over breakfast. Uncharacteristically the machine took a half dozen attempts to actually play. I could only sympathise with how it felt.
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