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 Polly Billington reports
Is there room in our hearts for the leftovers
of our musical pasts?
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Some music will be lost as it's not transferred onto new formats. Andy tries to save it from the skip.
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Andy Jupp is a self-styled Charity Shop DJ - bringing back to life
the memories locked in the vinyl that someone else has thrown away,
and taking photographs of people at the moment of reunion with a beloved piece of music.
"People start off asking for the hits they remember,
but actually it's the ambient stuff that really get's them going,
the music they didn't know they knew. It's the secret soundtrack
to our lives - there's something deeply reminiscent about it," he says.
 He takes photos of people as their eyes light up
when they find an old favourite. "This is the stuff by the people
who lost the cultural wars of the twentieth century,
but it's our secret history and it's of interest to
see it.
Now he's asking famous music fans
to be photographed with their favourite bit of vinyl.
Paul Gambaccini loves Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan.
 And Andy's own highlight of the project so far
is meeting Tony Benn who chose to be photographed
with Guantanamera. "The lyrics mean a lot to him,
especially the line, 'With the poor folk of the land I want to cast my lot'."
 Now you too can have the charityshopDJ experience.
Choose your favourite bit of rejected old vinyl while surrounded
by the smiling faces of charity shop rummagers clutching
their memories in the form of a record sleeve.
The exhibition is on at the Boris Baggs gallery
in Paddington Basin, West London, until May 2nd.
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