Tag: Graham Jones

  • Record Shops Facing Tipping Point in 2019…

    Record Shops Facing Tipping Point in 2019…

    The Vinyl Revival may have seen an increase in record shop numbers, but record buyers can ill-afford to take their local record shops for granted… In case you have been distracted by other, less important political issues such as Brexit and volatile US presidents, it won’t have escaped your notice there has been a miraculous…

  • Help Celebrate “One Of The Country’s Great Record Shops’” 40th Birthday

    Help Celebrate “One Of The Country’s Great Record Shops’” 40th Birthday

    On the 28 October 1977 a thirty-seven year old Peter Driscoll opened a new record shop at 55 Elm Road in Leigh on Sea. It was the year of Punk and The Sex Pistols, so naturally the UK’s charts reflected this cataclysmic social upheaval, with the nation’s number one record that week being “Yes Sir,…