Taylor Swift has helped send sales of vinyl records soaring to one of their highest levels ever.
The Bad Blood singer, 33, who has three of her releases in the UK vinyl top 10, is being hailed for the phenomenon of LP sales in Britain being at a peak not seen since 1990.
It's been reported by The Sun the sales are up 11.7 per cent this year, marking the fastest growth rate so far this decade for vinyl — after a rise of only 2.9 per cent in 2022.
Taylor's re-recordings of her 1989 and Speak Now albums, plus her Midnights record, are at numbers one, four and eight in the UK album charts.
The Rolling Stones — who have just released their new album Hackney Diamonds — and Fleetwood Mac's classic Rumours are also high in the vinyl charts, along with releases by Olivia Rodrigo, 20, and 27-year-old Lewis Capaldi.
BPI chief executive Dr Jo Twist said: "Led by vinyl, the resurgence of physical product underlines the resilience of the UK music market at a time when streaming continues to hit record levels".
Full annual sales for vinyl editions will be revealed on 3 January, but industry body the BPI said more than 250,000 vinyls were sold in the seven days before Christmas, which The Sun said would make it the best week for the format's sales this century.
More than four fifths of recorded music listened to in the UK is now made up of streaming — yet more than 11 million CDs have been sold this year.
A retro boom has also seen cassette tape sales top 100,000 for the fourth consecutive year.
Also in the UK vinyl top 10 is Lana Del Rey'sDid You Know that There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd and Blur's The Ballad of Darren, along with Pink Floyd classic The Dark Side of the Moon.
Sir Paul McCartney admits Let It Be was subconsciously inspired by William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
The Beatles legend has spoken about the origin of the 1970s classic before, suggesting his mother Mary McCartney said "let it be" to him in a dream.
He has now revealed the saying from Hamlet might have been on his mind as he used to have to recite the plays of Shakespeare at school.
Hamlet's speech includes the line: "But let it be. Horatio, I am dead". Speaking on his Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast, he said: "In those days [at school], I had to learn speeches off by heart. So I could still do a bit of 'to be or not to be', or 'O that this too too solid flesh'.
"And it had been pointed out to me recently that Hamlet, when he has been poisoned, he actually says, 'Let it be' - act five, scene two. He says 'Let be' the first time, then the second time he says, 'Had I but time — as this fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest — oh, I could tell you. But let it be Horatio".
He added: "I was interested that I was exposed to those words during a time when I was studying Shakespeare so that years later the phrase appears to me in a dream with my mother saying it".
The 81-year-old music legend previously explained how the idea for the song came to him in a dream about his mother during the intense writing sessions for The Beatles' 1968 White Album.
His mother Mary Patricia McCartney died of cancer in 1956, when he was 14. He later said: "It was great to visit with her again. I felt very blessed to have that dream. So that got me writing 'Let It Be'".
In another interview, he clamed she said to him in the dream: "'It will be all right, just let it be".