Construction industry gossip: Where the sun don’t shine

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2021-05-14T05:00:00

A 1960s cinema has been saved from eternal darkness, but Jack Pringle’s vinyl collection of the same era has been less fortunate. Meanwhile, David Hockney is trying to cheer us all up with a digital sunrise

Vinyl sin

Now he’s in business with them, I wonder if Jack Pringle will ask his daughters for his record collection back? “They’ve stolen it,” the former RIBA president says in between reeling off a list of 1960s faves, including the Who and Jimi Hendrix. “Great times,” he adds. But I thought that if you remembered the 1960s, you weren’t really there …

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