Music From The Vaults
DEEP IN THE vaults of the British Library lies a veritable treasure trove for pop music lovers. Housed across the main building in St Pancras and the Library’s Boston Spa site are more than 350,000 CDs and 250,000 LPs, as well as around a quarter of a million 78rpm discs and numerous reel-to-reel and cassette tapes.
Throw in an array of wax cylinders along with old issues of the NME, books, newspaper clippings, catalogues and recorded interviews and you have a vast collection that Andy Linehan, the Library’s Curator of Popular Music Collections, is understandably very proud of.
Every genre is covered, from music hall to metal and jazz to grime, and Andy feels he and his
