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14 The Chronicle January 24 - 30, 2017 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Entertainment Streaming can't detune Oshawa music store Tyler Hodgkinson The Chronicle Online music services such as Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify have cemented their legitimacy as hubs for catalogues, but this can also be said for longstanding Oshawa music store Wilson & Lee. According to co-owner Bill Wilson, the downtown shop, which is currently celebrating 95 years in business, isn’t greatly affected by the rise of streaming services because they bring in a “different kind of customer.” (Wilson & Lee Some people love to have a tangible experience. Jared Williams The Chronicle is also owned and operated by his younger brother, Dave.) “[People who download] are a portion of people we didn’t really have to begin with,” the 77-year old says. “We have a lot of customers looking for vinyl records.” In a report published last year, Nielsen says the amount of streams in Canada has risen to 18.6 billion in 2016 from 10.5 billion in 2015. The study takes into effect both video and audio streams. Nielsen also reports physical album sales are down 16 per cent, however, vinyl LPs sales have risen 39 per cent. According to Official Charts, the late David Bowie’s Blackstar was the best-selling vinyl of 2016, with Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and the soundtrack to the Guardians of the Galaxy film in second and third, respectively. Wilson believes the resurgence of vinyl is a direct result of consumers’ need for something physical. “Some people love to have a tangible experience,” Wilson says. “I remember buying records, showing them to my friends, arguing about what certain lyrics did or didn’t mean.” Nowadays, some music fans Bill Wilson, co-owner of Wilson & Lee music store in Oshawa. collect vinyl because it may sound better when played through an optimal system, while others love to grab everything their favourite artists release. Albums by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Taylor Swift are big sellers at the store, Wilson says. New vinyl is often priced between $20 and $45, however, it depends on the popularity and availability of the product. Additionally, used vinyl bins are often rummaged about by customers, as buying preowned records is a cheaper solution for the mass collector type. The store began bringing in used vinyl after a customer offered to sell his collection before throwing it away. “It was either me or the dump, so I gave him a fair, reasonable amount and we put them on sale. I didn’t know what was going to Photograph by Tyler Hodgkinson happen, so I priced them, threw them up, and people started to buy them,” says Wilson. “It sort of dawned on me that this is something I may want to expand a bit.” Wilson & Lee has continued to “flip” records ever since. Vinyl alone does not keep the storein business. In fact, its main source of business is instruments, but it also sells movies, CDs, and notation books. Wilson & Lee music store celebrates 95 years It’s fair to say the music scene in Oshawa has seen some highs and lows since the days when then-bar bands like Rush and Triumph were opening acts. But one constant on the scene has been music store Wilson & Lee, which has earned itself a reputation as a quality establishment since opening its doors in 1922. Original owners William Wilson and his sister in-law Mary Lee opened up the store in his house on Albert Street in Oshawa. Aside from being able to purchase music there, Wilson also taught piano lessons at the shop. After William Wilson died in 1943, Lee and other immediate family members minded the store selling instruments and records. When Bill Wilson II returned from serving in the Second World War in 1946, he accepted the tradition of buying into the family business. “After the war there was a shortage in almost everything so that certainly made it easier to find work [for those looking at the time],” Bill said. It was also then that General Motors was at its peak employment for the city. A piano being moved into long-standing Oshawa music store Wilson & Lee. By 1953 the store had moved and re-opened in its current location on Simcoe Street, just north of Bond Street. Bill Wilson III started work at the store when he was 14-years-old. He says he wasn’t even completely aware of how much he enjoyed the music business until he began working at the store. “I just found that I loved this stuff. I found when I got in here I had an affinity for knowing what people liked and what they wanted.” By 1967 Bill was joined my his Photograph provided by Wilson & Lee younger brother David working at the store. “I was sitting at a table when I was 14 years old and my father said, ‘Get your suit on, you’re going to work!’ I have never had a Saturday off after that,” Bill’s brother and co-owner David Wilson said. I just found that I loved this stuff. “I enjoyed being here, I enjoyed being social, I enjoyed looking after people.” It wasn’t until 1989 that the two brothers bought the family business and took over ownership. It was then vinyl sales were at their peak from the local disc jockeys (DJ) buying up single records in attempt to keep their record collections contemporary and relevant. “Thirty years ago there was a pretty good bar scene going, there was lots of places for young musicians to play – not so much anymore,” Bill Wilson said. “For us the DJ was a saviour in the 70’s and 80’s because we used to have up to 60 guys come in on a regular basis.”
Entertainment chronicle.durhamcollege.ca January 24 - 30, 2017 The Chronicle 15 Lion: A true story of hope and survival The inspiring true story of a young man out to rediscover himself Barbara Howe The Chronicle Imagine waking up on an empty train, thousands of miles from home. Imagine screaming for help though the barred windows. Imagine that nightmare. Imagine you a five-year-old boy. That is the predicament of the main character, Saroo Brierley, in Garth Davis’ debut film drama, Lion. Lion is an emotional roller-coaster of a movie which continually drenches your senses with the colourful and exotic sights and sounds of India. Wide-eyed Sunny Pawar, the newcomer actor, picked from thousands of hopeful candidates to play the leading role. Panwar steals your heart for the first hour. The movie follows the true-life story of a five-year-old Indian boy who gets separated from his older brother and ends up, over a thousand miles from his home, in the mean streets of Calcutta. It is 1986, a world away from today’s multi-connected society. Photograph by Barbara Howe Dev Patel portrays main character Saroo Brierley as a young man. There are no smart phones. It is a time when it was possible to disappear. His world of danger is framed in colourful and mystical vibrancy. The exotic images, which surround the painful real-life challenges this street urchin encounters, are taken from the young boy’s perspective. His world of danger is framed in colourful and mystical vibrancy. The journey is long and bittersweet. The young Saroo ends up in a government-run orphanage, and despite newspaper appeals, is never claimed. He is eventually adopted by a middle-class Australian couple, John and Sue Brierley (David Wenham and Nicole Kidman), who offer him a privileged upbringing in Tasmania. The second-half of the film does not have the same intensity or nail-biting moments as the first; the audience knows the hero is safe and removed from the perils of Calcutta. It is 2010, and Saroo has morphed into a grown man, played by Dev Patel, (Slumdog Millionaire). We meet him again as he moves away from his home to start a college in Melbourne. Kidman plays Saroo’s plain, selfless adoptive mother. She and her husband John struggle to raise their second adoptive son, Mantosh, who is not only estranged from the family, but also has autistic behaviours and battles substance abuse. This is in stark contrast to Saroo’s memories of his own caring brother, Guddu. However, Saroo is haunted by flashbacks. Sights and smells, which remind him of his homeland, trigger images of his childhood in rural India; his hardworking single-mother, (Priyanka Bose), and his beloved older brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate). With the help of Google Maps, Saroo immerses himself on a quest to retrace his journey back to his home village and re-unite with his family. Saroo plots the possible train route. He sets up a map on his apartment wall where he pins possible locations for his home village. The project takes over his life, he is conflicted between his need to connect with his roots and disappointing his adoptive family. Saroo drops out of school and loses his girlfriend. But he never gives up. Lion is a story of hope, determination and human survival. It shows how we are all connected to our past, and our need to be reassured of that connection before our future is fulfilled. Dive deep into The Old Man and the Sea Frank Katradis The Chronicle Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, is a powerful story and one of his most enduring works. Written in 1952, this tale is still popular today and conveys a strong message that can be related to anyone in their daily lives. The Old Man and the Sea has won many awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, and even helped Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. This piece has been mentioned to be the best work ever done by Hemingway by critics throughout the ages. The novel tells the tale of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has not caught a fish in 85 days. As bad as his luck is, the old man stays positive, and on the 85th day, Santiago finds himself in a battle with a great marlin: the biggest he has ever seen. As he tries to catch the monster of a fish and bring it home to the mainland the old man finds himself having an epiphany about his life. The language in the novel is simple but the book is well-structured. Hemingway creates a vivid image of a man on a boat out in the sea. With each page turned, the reader feels the suffering of the old man as he tries to catch his prize fish. The reader also feels his love for the creature. To Santiago, the fish is not only his greatest challenge as a fisherman, it is his greatest personal battle with himself. Hemingway has an art for creating stories that explore the ways a person can look inside themselves to find the strength to see things in a different light. The Old Man and the Sea shows that objects can be metaphors and also illustrates how the simplest task can have a deeper meaning. Inspired by Hemingway’s time in Cuba, The Old Man and the Sea is an iconic novel because of its simplicity to convey a deep message. This book is recommended for young teens to adults. The message of internally viewing success is extremely powerful, to the point of a personal epiphany through the words of Hemingway. It is not a long read, but an important read. Those who are already well-read will thoroughly appreciate this voyage on the open sea.
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