Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Is the album really dead? 

Music won’t go away, but will the album? Not likely, as Tom Dunne explains

Income from recorded music was back to $12.9bn last year from a low of $6.7bn in 2014.

My mum’s sister was a classic Dublin wit: dry, caustic, withering. Her husband was somewhat averse to physical activity. 

If there was snooker on he might not move for months. ‘How is he?’ my mum once asked. ‘Dead these three weeks, Bridie,’ my aunt replied, ‘I just haven’t the heart to tell him.’