Jeavons
The Bryan Ferry story published in (1976) mentions this shop and does has a picture of it.
An anecdote from Jeavons......I was a student at Univ. of Newcastle on Tyne and in early 1964 I was in a booth at Jeavons Record Shop listening with a friend to a blues LP on Oriole called Ray Charles in R&B Hits...seven different artists including Lightnin Hopkins. A young man about our age asked if he could listen with us, so we were three in the booth. A few months later we saw the man on TV....Eric Burden singing the Animals first hit, 'Baby Let Me Take You Home'. I saw Eric again when the Animals were in First Class on Panam to New York in 1983 for their comeback, but I didn't have the courage to remind him of Jeavons. Eric was interviewed last Sunday on BBC after Chuck Berry's passing.....surprisingly he said Chuck Berry records were not produced in UK until 1964! In fact most of his 45s were issued on London records starting with an EP in 1956 and also his second LP ' One Dozen Berrys' in 1958. Distribution of Chess Records unfortunately went to Pye in 1964. Roy Knighton 25/3/17
An anecdote from Jeavons......I was a student at Univ. of Newcastle on Tyne and in early 1964 I was in a booth at Jeavons Record Shop listening with a friend to a blues LP on Oriole called Ray Charles in R&B Hits...seven different artists including Lightnin Hopkins. A young man about our age asked if he could listen with us, so we were three in the booth. A few months later we saw the man on TV....Eric Burden singing the Animals first hit, 'Baby Let Me Take You Home'. I saw Eric again when the Animals were in First Class on Panam to New York in 1983 for their comeback, but I didn't have the courage to remind him of Jeavons. Eric was interviewed last Sunday on BBC after Chuck Berry's passing.....surprisingly he said Chuck Berry records were not produced in UK until 1964! In fact most of his 45s were issued on London records starting with an EP in 1956 and also his second LP ' One Dozen Berrys' in 1958. Distribution of Chess Records unfortunately went to Pye in 1964. Roy Knighton 25/3/17
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