Comments
Dave Harwood
03 Sep 2024 at 03:42
I found this piece in the 'Edinburgh Evening News' dated 16th April 1982: “Two Edinburgh record shops are understood to have agreed to pay a total of £50,000 in out-of-court settlements for selling illegally imported albums. The British Phonographic Industry Ltd. had raised actions against Phoenix Records, of 21 High Street, and GI Records, of 37-39 Cockburn Street. The BPI say these have now been settled, with GI agreeing to pay £30,000 and Phoenix £20,000.”
Andrew McEwan
01 Dec 2024 at 04:59
I worked in GI for 2 years a fine place, we all knew so much about music, we were just crazy for it, I remember people paying £50 - £100 for original albums from the 70s and 60s, many musicians would come in to find old source from us, a fine place to be.
A-Z prev: Ghys' Stores Chelsea
A-Z next: Gibbs Bookshop
Name: Simon Black
Comment: GI Records started out at 26b Raeburn Place in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh c.1976. It moved to Cockburn Street in 1980 and closed in 1985.
Name: Jim Boyd
Comment: I`m very surprised you found Gordon Inglis less than helpful or unfriendly. On my first visit to GI in the 1970s Gordon spent two hours playing me artists he thought I would be interested in. I came to Edinburgh every six weeks to go to his shop and he did the same thing each time. A great guy!
Name: Eric Marshall
Comment: I used to visit the Raeburn Place and Cockburn Street shops on trips through from Greenock and always found something of interest. There was also a very efficient mail order service which I used regularly. This and Ezy Ryder were my favourites in Edinburgh.
Name: Ross Garden
Comment: My father (Martin) was Gordon's mate, and I helped fit out the shop in Cockburn Street when I was a kid. One of the most amazing basements in Edinburgh. Not only was it full of shelves of perfectly racked records - it connected to a labyrinth under Edinburgh. It's all coming back, Gordon had a white Porsche with the reg no. WAX 11 and an incredibly modern home in West Mayfield with a stunning staircase and a pool table. No idea how I remember all that, must have made an impression. Heard he opened a little nick-nack shop on Forest Road after GI Records closed, but that was a VERY long time ago. If you're still around to read this Gordon - thanks for letting me make all those tapes, even though you didn't like the Stranglers :)
(31 March 2015)
Name: Richard Watt
Comment: GI in Cockburn Street was a vast, seemingly always deserted shop - I always wondered how it made money, selling Albert Lee and Spirit LPs. I remember buying a live import Mountain double album in there - it was that sort of place.
(21 April 2015)
Name: Chrissie Carey
Comment: Not friendly? Are we talking about the same guy? I loved my weekly visit to Raeburn Place. Apart from building up my collection, It was always great to see Gordon and the boys - Bob and John - haer a bit crack about music, get stuff recommended to me, have a laugh. They were all so knowledgeable, and FRIENDLY.
(2020)
Name: Mike Dickson
Comment: Fond memories of this place too. One of the few places in Edinburgh in the 1980s where you could get Captain Beefheart records and always had a sharp windows display. It was also the first and last place I ever saw The Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles and Fripp on sale. Changed days.
(2021)