The Music Room
Fo mainstream rock albums it was The Music Room, which allowed you to listen to records in a booth before you bought (they had another branch in nearby Tonbridge). Comment:TheKevster
Singles upstairs in the main area with listening booths at the rear - and a really funky, darkly lit basement with an oil wheel adding psychedelic colours to the two listening booths down there. It smelled of damp and incense and I simply adored the place. Comment: telegramsam 45 cat forum
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I loved The Music Room- my choice of venue for 45's and LP's. Didn't go to the Tunbridge Wells shop myself. Had a great selection of posters too as I recall. The ladies who served were all rock chics (if indeed I can still say that)Angie, who was about 25 then was one in 1979. She was killed in a car accident with her boyfriend a few years later , 82/ 83. Short blonde hair with an Annie Lennox look, the stuff of a younger man's fantasies. The only shop in Tonbridge to stock the New wave of British heavy metal. The lower floor was the place for such people, darkly lit and it was there that I knew I belonged. Very much missed.
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Ivan Marchant
(2022)
Singles upstairs in the main area with listening booths at the rear - and a really funky, darkly lit basement with an oil wheel adding psychedelic colours to the two listening booths down there. It smelled of damp and incense and I simply adored the place. Comment: telegramsam 45 cat forum
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I loved The Music Room- my choice of venue for 45's and LP's. Didn't go to the Tunbridge Wells shop myself. Had a great selection of posters too as I recall. The ladies who served were all rock chics (if indeed I can still say that)Angie, who was about 25 then was one in 1979. She was killed in a car accident with her boyfriend a few years later , 82/ 83. Short blonde hair with an Annie Lennox look, the stuff of a younger man's fantasies. The only shop in Tonbridge to stock the New wave of British heavy metal. The lower floor was the place for such people, darkly lit and it was there that I knew I belonged. Very much missed.
Name
Ivan Marchant
(2022)