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Tuesday 15 January 2013 Business Culture Gallery

HMV: a visual history of grooves and booths

Jan 1925: English composer Sir Edward William Elgar (1857 - 1934) at a recording session for HMV. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

May 1930: A row of record turntables on a production line at the HMV factory in Hayes. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

May 1946: Mr J Lovelock checking a new disc at the HMV recording studios during the recording of music for the film Spring Song. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Customers in listening booths at HMV in 1958. (Photo by Bert Hardy Advertising Archive/Getty Images)

April 1968: An HMV shop front in the sixties. (Photo by H. J. Allen/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Dec 1973: Bearded browsing inside HMV on Oxford Street, London. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

July 1982: Singer and guitarist Nick Heyward, of Haircut 100, with Nipper, the HMV dog at the Silver Clef pop awards in July 1982. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

July 1988: Michael Jackson arrives at HMV store in London during his Bad tour in 1988. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

October 1997: Jarvis Cocker of Pulp DJing at HMV on Oxford Street. (Photo by Fred Duval/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

Young new band Coldplay play an instore at HMV on Oxford St, London, in 2000. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Redferns)

Everything Everything perform live at HMV Market Street in Manchester on the day before the firm was put into administration. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage/Getty)

Photo 1/12 Jan 1925: English composer Sir Edward William Elgar (1857 - 1934) at a recording session for HMV. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Images of HMV, the iconic music shop which opened in 1921 but now faces closure.