Spinning Disc (Chiswick)

Name: Andrew Titcombe
Comment: I was friendly with Terry from Spinning Disc - he was the real thing! Great place you could hardly squeeze into and then you had to fight your way past the teddy boys looking for rock & roll.

Name: Mark Griffiths
Comment: Terry was a lovely bloke and used to buy a lot of stuff from me - always very fair with his prices. RIP mate - you're well remembered.

Name: Colin
Comment: Agree, all the way. He had so much crammed in the window, and I wondered why he constantly closed. A closer look in the window and I read the note that he had left us, sorry to say two months previously. Should have taken more notice.
(26 October 2013)

Name: CC Rider
Comment: A fantastic shop. Being in that shop was like being in a 1950s/1960s time warp. Terry was always happy and enthusiastic about the music he sold. Happy days!
(27 May 2013)

Name: Guy Rawlings
Comment: Indeed, Terry had a great selection of 45s that I could not get at the London Rockin' clubs. Doowop and R&B and the like. Remember buying Elvis off him too. So when passing through Chiswick on work I always hoped he would be open.
It was a squeeze at times for sure but nice memories. Was sad to hear when Terry passed on.
(14 October 2015)

Name: Colin Dunning
Comment: Still miss going into the Spinning Disc, still love rockabilly music and all the fifties artists, can now get it all on YouTube, how would Terry have handled the new technology?

The shop is now a dry cleaners, so is At The Hop on Fulham Road. It always felt great walking out of the Spinning Disc with a bag full of records I'd never heard before. Sure miss Terry and The Spinning Disc.
(26 November 2015)

Name: Darry Johnson
Comment: Loved Terry. I worked in Spinning Disc with him for about five years in the late 1980s to early 1990s on Saturdays. Many good memories, great people used to come in the shop and it was all due to Tel the legend.
(16 January 2016)

Name: Chris Brown
Comment: I will always remember Terry with great fondness, spending many happy days in the shop. Terry and myself became good friends. As has been said in previous comments the shop was an Aladdin's Cave stacked with vinyl. Where I was living at the time in Isleworth, Terry in fact used to live just round the corner from me, and on numerous occasions I used to pop round to see him. I remember he had this lovely jukebox in his front room full of rock & roll and rockabilly records. Terry was always happy and enthusiastic about his music. RIP Tel. PS I bet you're still rockin' in heaven.
CB x

Name: David Davis
Comment: I knew Terry when I was a young lad of about 15 back in 1983 when my mum and our old lodger used to go up to his shop in Chiswick to buy rock & roll albums. I used to be mesmerised by all the items he had jam-packed in his shop windows. Even when I was in my 20s I bought Top of the Pops records among other singles. It's a real shame he passed away. I only came across this website when chatting to my girlfriend today about the places my mum used to visit back in the day when she was alive. It was then I mentioned to her about Spinning Disc and she was intrigued to see what the record shop was like. So we searched on Google and here we are. In all these years I never forgot Terry's name as my mum was a regular weekly customer at his shop. I'm from Isleworth myself, born and bred, and lived on Ivy Bridge estate back then. We used to visit another shop in Hounslow called Levits. They used to sell rock & roll clothing and studded belts and bootlace ties. Real shame these great days have gone and more so the wonderful people who ran these great shops. Terry will be dearly missed. I have no knowledge of when Terry passed away or what caused his death. But his memory will live on in all of us that had the pleasure of knowing him.
(2017)

Name: Haddam Neck, CT USA
Comment: I have a 1998 receipt for a Roy Orbison CD (TNT vol 7 The Other Side). That's a hard disc to locate now. Very good service and a perfect disc. I play it with the other six Roy discs!
(2019)

Name: Graham Tidy
Comment: Have very fond and now nostalgic memories of spending several hours each visit chatting with Terry in Spinning Disc around 1980 onwards for a few years with my old school mate Steve Sayers. I wonder where YOU are these days. You just got sucked into it, and Terry was a true music man, with fascinating stories and facts to tell.
When looking for rare records, Terry always came up with the goods. He would always come up with something exciting for you, even if it wasn't something you'd asked for.

These shops are dying out I fear,and although I have embraced today's technology, none of it creates the excitement I felt leaving Terry's shop, excited to get home to play my treasures, and often Terry would play you a little sample from the record in the shop.
(2020)

Name: John James Hudson
Comment: I used to live five minutes' walk from the shop, I did discover that shop before Terry took over from an old couple. It was only when Terry took over that I started visiting several times a week.
I must say that at the time I did not know a lot about record collecting etc..I also remember Bob Thomas who used to come to the shop, almost on a daily basis. Great times...
(2020)

Name: Lou Collins
Comment: Loved this shop.
(2020)

Name: Rob Forrest
Comment: I rented the hairdressers next to Terry in 1976. Terry was the most knowledgable man on Elvis. I still have an A1 gold foil half tone poster of Elvis that I bought from Terry after the death of Elvis. In all my searches through Elvis memorabilia I cannot find it. It is my abiding memory of one of the kindest, most generous men I have ever had the honour to meet and know. In his own way he was the king of the high road.
(2020)

Name: Vincent Walsh
Comment: Bought my first original 1960s 45 in there, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, in 1979 and went back at least once a week.
​(2021)

Name: Sven Klötzke
Comment: In the 1980s I learned of the shop throug Record Collector magazine and often bought records there via mail as I am from Germany. I even visited the shop several times and talked to Terry for hours. So sad to learn he has left the building. I will remember you, Terry.
Cheers.
(2022)

​Name: Mark Griffiths
Comment: The Chiswick Spinning Disc was run by a lovely bloke name of Terry, and I used to visit from about 1981 until the mid-nineties, but by that stage selling rather than buying. I think the place closed when Terry passed.
​(2022)

Name: Ken Penrose
Comment: Terry was such a lovely bloke. He was so knowledgeable and always found the time to talk with his customers. He was always fair and honest when buying and selling and it was an absolute pleasure to visit the shop. I just loved going there. My abiding memory as regards individual artists was when we were discussing Del Shannon who we both liked. Terry would look to the ceiling, go into something like a trance and say “Ah! Del!”
​(2023)