Perhaps dial 999 and put empty gesture on the record (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Here we put G estur E without the middle letters ( empty …) on THE + LP (record). I was distracted for a while by thinking the record was Help! Rather than one of the crosswordland staples.  Possibly influences by a Beatles-related clue in another recent puzzle by the same author