HMV - oxford street in the 1960's - Some great pics + some more articles

[The Grand Wazoo]

The late 70's and early 80's when I did my record buying in ...... Brighton could not compete with that.

I bought a lot of albums in HMV in Brighton in the 80s Steve - do you remember the tiny Virgin by the clock tower?
EDIT: What was she called again?!

[Barry]

Ah, memories. I shopped there a little later (probably around 1973 or so on my first trip), and later still at Simon's Records (they of the Portuguese imports) and the shoe shop that first hosted Virgin Records upstairs. Later still was the Megastore and who could forget Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus with the most fab classical record department I ever saw.

Tower Records in Picadilly was a wonderful shop: superb range of interesting stock and a thoroughly knowledgeable and helpful staff. HMV in Oxford Street could, and should have learnt a thing or two from Tower Records!

But Portugese imports? - yuck, I have heard enough of them to avoid them like the plague!

[Barry]

I bought a lot of albums in HMV in Brighton in the 80s Steve - do you remember the tiny Virgin by the clock tower?
EDIT: What was she called again?!

I don't think it was Tabatha! Tabatha's at least 5' 9".

[MartinT]

But Portugese imports? - yuck, I have heard enough of them to avoid them like the plague!

They were dreadful, which explained Simon's Records' low prices.

[Clive197]

I bought a lot of albums in HMV in Brighton in the 80s Steve - do you remember the tiny Virgin by the clock tower?
EDIT: What was she called again?!

I certainly don't know but while on the subject of virgin, I most definatly wouldn't fly Virgin as I could never get on a plane that does not go all the way.

[Magna Audio]

Yes, great thread about the store here: http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/...p189p964p.aspx
Do you mean the name of the Virgin store, the clock tower or my then girlfriend? Like the 60's, I was there and I don't remember - must have been a good time.
I don't recall a scary Dez though - guess he'd gone by the time I was there.

I bought a lot of albums in HMV in Brighton in the 80s Steve - do you remember the tiny Virgin by the clock tower?
EDIT: What was she called again?!

[The Grand Wazoo]

I meant the tiny Virgin shop by the clock tower.
What I typed kind of implied that perhaps there may have been a very small female, inexperienced in the pleasures of the flesh, who had a habit of standing by the clock tower - my edit was just a poor joke on the theme.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Just read that thread - excellent!
My wife and I both remember Desmond with the bongos! I also spotted the reference to The Whippet Inn, which, I remember was known as 'Brighton's Biggest Double Entendre"!