N.E.M.S
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I remember in about 1970 accompanying my friend Eddie (who was an unreconstructed mod and a big Motown fan, especially the Four Tops) to NEMS in Liverpool, Brian Epstein's famous emporium, (which was actually a furniture store and is now, sadly, a sex shop) to buy the Tops' latest 45. Resplendent in his pristine dark brown mohair two-tone two-piece suit and Ben Sherman - record buying was an occasion in those days - Eddie strutted up the counter, leaned on it, fixed the female assistant with his coolest moddiest expression and said 'I Can't Help Myself'. Amazingly, she didn't bat an eyelid...
Poster once displayed in the shop window at N.E.Ms
(March 18, 2015)I bought my first portable stereo record player from NEMS when I was about 15 years of age. I had set eyes on it in the window a year earlier and noted its purchase price of 5 pounds…. A lot of money for a 15 year old in those days! It looked so cool with lots of chrome and, yes, dials for volume, bass and treble. The tone arm that held the stylus was so slim and high tech and the turntable with its black rubber base was huge compared to its predecessors! Well, it took me a year to save up before I could take the trip from Crosby to Liverpool to make the big purchase. Following that, I purchased several LPs from NEMS, including The Beatles White Album and Canned Heat Live. I am most sure I added many 45s to the collection during the next few years. Shame it’s gone… a landmark second only to The Cavern. Ray Comment: Ray Hilson
NEMs also had record stores in the Bootle, New Strand, shopping centre, also the Marian Square shopping centre in Netherton.
Comment: David Owens.
(April 26, 2015) There was a NEMS in Great Charlotte Street as well as the one in Whitechapel. I was in Liverpool from 1958-64 and it was there during that time. Comment: Ray Astbury.
Name Jon Clarke Comment:There was also a NEMS in Wallasey Village in the mid 1960's. (Oct 1, 2016)
NEMs also had record stores in the Bootle, New Strand, shopping centre, also the Marian Square shopping centre in Netherton.
Comment: David Owens.
(April 26, 2015) There was a NEMS in Great Charlotte Street as well as the one in Whitechapel. I was in Liverpool from 1958-64 and it was there during that time. Comment: Ray Astbury.
Name Jon Clarke Comment:There was also a NEMS in Wallasey Village in the mid 1960's. (Oct 1, 2016)
In the slide show is a Top Ten Parade poster from 1963 found at the shop in an old store room 1990.
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