HMV's last release as a record label

To mark the retailer leaving their flagship store in 363 Oxford Street (that they would return in 2021) to a more larger store back in May 2000, they released a limited edition 78 of Robbie Williams' 1998 hit "Millennium" backed by a 1920 recording of Edward Elgar conducting "Nimrod", a movement from his Enigma Variations suite with EMI.
Serving as a bookend since Elgar opened the store back in 1921.
Location: Wandsworth, London SW18, UK

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