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Name: Steve Jesson
Comment: I remember records at the front and lots of reel-to-reel tape recorders at the back! Also introduced video rentals at the same time Shooting Star did and I think closed not long after (mid-1980s?)
Name: Mike Walker.
Comment: I took over an ailing record shop in Castle Street in 1978, inheriting the wonderful Pauline, who continued the mechanics of running the record side whilst I concentrated on Hi-Fi.
Sales at the time of opening were £500-ish per week, by Christmas that year they were averaging £5,000 per week through very aggressive discounting. Flushed with success and with average weekly sales of £7-8,000, I decided to expand into a new precinct in Rugby in 1981 and fell flat on my face, losing all my working capital.
Dave Hood, at the time a friend and owner of Shooting Star in Nuneaton, took advantage of my cash flow predicament and decided to open a new shop literally 50 yards from mine in 1983-ish.
I went into liquidation in 1984, bought the stock from the liquidator, re-opened as Resurrection Records (with Jacko) selling the lease shortly after to a greengrocer for a reasonable sized bag of cash.
Ended up in Dublin running the Irish subsidiary of Amstrad, then a bistro in Canary Wharf, and am now semi-retired in Weymouth. Still selling records online, though! If anyone out there has a yellow HSC plastic bag, I'd love to have it!
... and this piece in the 'Hinckley Times' dated 14th December 1984:
“RECORD SHOP CEASES TRADING. Resurrection Records – formerly Hinckley Sound Centre - has ceased trading. Director Mike Walker has sold the lease on the Castle Street shop which has retailed records and tapes in Hinckley for six years Mr Walker declined to reveal the nature of the business which is taking over but it is understood it will not be another record shop.”