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| Last Shop Standing |
| Label: Proper Music Publishing |
| Cat
No: PMO100 |
| Format: Book |
| Genre: Mixed Genres |
| Barcode: 9780956121202 |
| Release Date: 06/04/09 |
Whatever happened to record shops? Not long ago there was one in every High Street.
However, 540 have closed down in the last four years.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Last Shop Standing lifts the lid on an industry in tatters. Graham Jones has worked at the heart of record retailing since the golden era of the 1980s. He was there during the years of plenty and has witnessed the tragic decline of a business blighted by corruption and corporate greed.
Undertaking a tour of the last remaining independent record shops in Britain, Graham has collected a wealth of entertaining stories that explain why the best are still standing, and how the worst of them blew it.
This is a hilarious yet harrowing account by a man who has been there and sold that. It is a book that will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has ever bought a CD or attended a concert, and still has the promotional T Shirt to prove it.
Graham has amassed a fantastic collection of anecdotes on his travels around the record shops of Britain including:
How Take That were conned out of the Christmas number 1
The hysterical tale of the band that faked a murder
The hilarity of the UK’s worst record shop
Why Mr Blobby has a special place in the heart of record shop owners.
The most hyped records ever and how they cheated their way into the charts.
The rock star who’s hobby is touring the UK record shops being horrible to staff.
The shop that sold £45,000 worth of records for a fiver.
Hear about the band that started their UK tour with the original 3-piece line up. After the first day due to drink one member was left in the hotel and an impostor brought in. By day two a second member was left behind in the hotel due to drug problems and a second impostor brought in. The band finished the tour with only one member and two impostors on the stage, however the public were none the wiser (until now)...
Last Shop Standing is a unique slice of social history and record industry folklore. It is also a damn good laugh.
The Author
Graham Jones was born in Anfield, Liverpool. After leaving school he worked in numerous dead-end jobs before getting his first break in the music industry thanks to a colleague's failed comical suicide attempt. Ever the optimist, Graham managed the Cherry Boys, a band that made Spinal Tap look mundane, and ran his own market stall, selling vinyl fruit bowls made from Beatles LPs melted into shape under a grill. He eventually found his vocation travelling the country selling records, tapes and CDs to independent record stores, and never looked back - until now. One of the founders of Proper Music Distribution, the largest independently owned music distributor in the UK, he lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire with his son Ben.
Last Shop Standing is distribute by Music Sales and published by Proper Music Publishing LTD
www.lastshopstanding.co.uk |
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