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Sue Dodd
09 Jan 2024 at 09:49
I worked at Beatties in the 1970s/80s and yes, the record department wasn't bad. But as someone who was into punk/new wave, having to listen to Phil Collins/War of the Worlds, day in day out drove me up the wall! It was only occasionally when a friend stood in on the department we would get Half Man Half Biscuit and the like played to the horrified looks of the shoppers! Good times.
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Comment: The first was Beatties department store, at the bottom of Grange Road. It had a pretty decent selection for a department store - I clearly remember flicking through the racks and seeing Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Juicy Lucy's Get a Whiff of This in and amongst the James Last and the Mantovani. But all my early purchases were from Beatties, usually using record tokens rather than cash. Imagine, Who's Next, Trilogy, Pictures At An Exhibition were the first, I recall.