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British Record Shop Archive

Dixons Derby

Dixons Derby

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(May 21, 2014) Anonymous said:Happy memories does anyone have any photos!

Paul Mortimer 'Yes! As a Derby lad, I started my record-buying times at home in Derby.  Dixons of Sadler Gate, smack-dab in the town centre, was one of the major record shops of the sixties / seventies era. A wonderful vinyl cornucopia!  The location did remain a disc shop under other names for a spell after it ceased to be Dixons.  My main historical note - I bought my first-ever LP at Dixons, which was a short walk up the road from where I worked as a teenage apprentice at the Vauxhall dealership.  The LP? It was the epoch-making Jimi Hendrix Experience, a first-day issue of his debut LP 'Are You Experienced?'and I also remember buying 'Electric Ladyland' from Dixon's too!' (June 23, 2016).



David M. 'I've got lots of happy memories associated with Dixons. It was a well-stocked and friendly record shop, from where I bought some monumental records- mainly from summer '66 to around 3 years later.  I used to work across the road (in Sadlergate)so Friday lunchtime "visits to Dixons were frequent; I just got paid, what record can I buy"?!  My main memories are of buying Beatles records there; I bought Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (mono issue)on its day of release in June 1967, and later the now super-rare "Let It Be" box set (PXS1)album - I've still got that. They sold me many other great albums - all the Who stuff of that time, Steve Miller Band's Brave New World, Spirit's 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, etc...and my also bought lots of goodies - Canned Heat, several Hendrix first issue LPs, Traffic etc... we were such hip kids!'(June 23, 2016).

Real misty-eyed memories!

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