Will Parker Records
Years ago I used to race up the stairs of Will Parker’s record shop in Ormskirk town and buy the very latest Abba as soon as it came in with my mother….can still rememeber the THRILL of ‘Arrival’ with its cynically accepting, ‘knowing me, knowing you’ AHA moments…all my friends adored the blonde Agnetha and humoured the existence of those talented but hirsute guys who seemed slightly extraneous to the whole Abba experience..Comment: Janet Lewison
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I used to regularly go to his Earlestown shop to buy my records and play Space Invaders. When Will was still ordering the stock for the shop, I'd often go through the new releases and tell him what was likely to sell well in town (as far as punk and new wave singles were concerned). I have to give Will credit for getting me into Wire.
I turned up at the shop to find it closed on 1st April 1981. I thought it was a joke. Sadly not.
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Paul Forshaw (2021)
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I used to regularly go to his Earlestown shop to buy my records and play Space Invaders. When Will was still ordering the stock for the shop, I'd often go through the new releases and tell him what was likely to sell well in town (as far as punk and new wave singles were concerned). I have to give Will credit for getting me into Wire.
I turned up at the shop to find it closed on 1st April 1981. I thought it was a joke. Sadly not.
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Paul Forshaw (2021)
Paul Forshaw tied to the record racks during some standard horseplay in there (circa 1979). Another trick that used to go down in there, was to staple unwary people's clothes to the counter, with a staple gun. Photo Paul Forshaw.