The final installment of Twilight of the Gods, Robert Harris's history of the record business.

The record business was one of the mainstays of the 20th Century ... one of the cultural pillars that reflected and created our social life, creative life, our psychological lives. And now the traditional record business is dying, or so it seems. One of the great powers of the world is haemorrhaging money, power, and influence.

The business created who we were when it was strong. What will happen when it goes.