Sales of vinyl reach 25-year high: Do you own these valuable records?

As UK consumers embrace physical formats of music once again, here are the blasts from the past now worth a lot of money

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Sales of vinyl in 2016 reached a 25-year high as UK consumers once again embraced physical formats of music.

More than 3.2 million LPs were sold last year, a rise of 53 per cent on 2015 and the highest number since 1991, when Simply Red's Stars topped the best-selling charts for the year, reports The Guardian.

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