Millennials may find it hard to believe that some of the music that was the soundtrack to their youth is now a quarter of a century old. Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP has just turned 25, ditto Britney Spears’ Oops I did it again.
Record companies have made it a trend of tapping into the nostalgia of legacy albums by re-issuing anniversary editions, containing the original tracks, a few bonus songs, either previously unreleased tunes or remixes of the hit songs from those albums.