Williams

Name: Mark Bailey
Comment: I remember this one, just off the end of High Row, seemed to be mostly a musical instrument store but had a good record section too. From memory I bought David Watts and Tube Station by The Jam there as well as probably others (good little mod that I was) as well as getting Are 'Friends' Electric? on picture disc for a kid at school who lived out of town and knew the picture discs would sell out in a day because Tubeway Army were on TOTP that night. As it was an unknown thing it was only a quid and I thought if it's any good I'll give him the money back and keep it. Saw it on TOTP and thought it was a load of old w**k so Stu got the record the next day. Naturally it was worth a tenner in the NME classifieds a week later and I went on to appreciate it as one of the greatest singles of its time - I'd kill for a picture disc copy now!
(2019)

Name: Martyn Cain
Comment: Always best to go out of town (if you could) - Alan Fearnley's in Middlesbrough, Hitsville and Volume in Newcastle, and Red Rhino in York. I think I only bought chart stuff in Williams and then by the late 1980s it stopped selling vinyl altogether!
(2022)