Name: Bernie Priekulis.
Comment: Mark (Dougie) Bishop from Hereford and myself both studied Physics at Birmingham University from 1976 to 1979. He was into Northern Soul in a big way and had a lot of contacts in the city. As well as Graham Warr and Soul Galore in Oasis, The Diskery and Reddingtons, there were two record shops in Selly Oak. ‘Funky Duncs Record Shop’ was run by a couple of in-your-face gay guys. Dunc had every British Motown release from TMG500 and used to DJ ocasionally at our Brum Uni Soul Club dos. The other shop was Raven Records. I think his name was Paul Raven and he had a huge quantity of imports and pressings. They cost next to nothing – great for us poor.
