Rex’s Rockin Records
Rock On at Golborne Rd, London W10 became Rockin' Rex (owned by Rockin' Rex!) and then Chicken Shack (owned by Mark )
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Rex is still Rockin' and lives in Dorset, he still sells his Records to whoever he can
Name
Dave Kenn
(2019)
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In the mid '70s (and perhaps before) Rex had a stall or lock up kiosk on Wembley Market where he sold mostly old 45s from the '50s and '60s and reissues and repros of old rockabilly and rock and roll releases. One of his regulars there was the BBC's Doc Cox who around that time shot to fame as Ivor Biggun with 'I'm A Wanker', given on a guest column in NME as record of the week by Johnny Rotten. Cox's love of old rock and roll can be heard in 'I'm A Wanker' with his sly nod to Sun rockabilly legend Warren Smith' "Ubangi Stomp" in the lyrics, "I wanked over Italy, I wanked over Spain". I remember Rex selling a lot of copies of that at Wembley Market, brought to him by Cox, before it went big.
Name
Mark Jamieson
(2021)
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Rex is still Rockin' and lives in Dorset, he still sells his Records to whoever he can
Name
Dave Kenn
(2019)
Comment
In the mid '70s (and perhaps before) Rex had a stall or lock up kiosk on Wembley Market where he sold mostly old 45s from the '50s and '60s and reissues and repros of old rockabilly and rock and roll releases. One of his regulars there was the BBC's Doc Cox who around that time shot to fame as Ivor Biggun with 'I'm A Wanker', given on a guest column in NME as record of the week by Johnny Rotten. Cox's love of old rock and roll can be heard in 'I'm A Wanker' with his sly nod to Sun rockabilly legend Warren Smith' "Ubangi Stomp" in the lyrics, "I wanked over Italy, I wanked over Spain". I remember Rex selling a lot of copies of that at Wembley Market, brought to him by Cox, before it went big.
Name
Mark Jamieson
(2021)
Rockin' Rex who had previously in the late '70s famously sold records at the rock and roll nights at The Royalty in Southgate and The Bobby Sox in Willesden.
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