Name: Tony Rounce
Comment: Richard Scanes has passed away. 'Tricky Dicky' was a great servant to soul and dance music for decades, as both a DJ and a proprietor. His Trax Records shop in Greek Street was an invaluable barometer of public acceptance for me in the days when I worked in dance promotion. I actually knew TD from the time when I used to buy secondhand records from his lists in the late 1960s, and he was as passionate about a good new tune in the early 1990s as he was when he used to put those paper lists together 25 years earlier.
(10 November 2016)
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“Mark Moore of S'Xpress has just phoned me to congratulate me on the weird 'Original Soundtrack' review we printed last week. "What did Johnny Dee mean?" he asked. Alas, we don't know and neither does he. Mark, currently suffering with a medium rare case of Venezuelan flu, also told me of his latest promotional wheeze. TRAX RECORDS in Greek Street, London W1, has a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the band with a hole where Mark's head should be so that pundits can stick their face through it and become a member of S'Xpress. There's a photographer on hand to capture the moment and all they ask is for a donation to the Ark/Save The World charity!”