ABSTRACT
Take a look back at 2015 and ask yourself these questions: Why did global vinyl sales increase yet again? (see, for instance, IFPI 2015). Why is vinyl even being issued in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Why did Black Grape go on a twentieth anniversary nostalgia tour playing It’s Great When You’re Straight . . . Yeah in its entirety followed by Happy Mondays’ twenty-fifth anniversary tour of Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches ? Why were Fleetwood Mac, Blur and The Prodigy headlining some of the major summer music festivals? And as for 2016: Why is Whitney’s hologram preparing to embark on a world tour? Why are Guns N Roses and The Stone Roses back together? Why are LCD sound systems back? Didn’t they bid us farewell just five short years ago?
