Photo Jules McEwan. 1970's left to right Tony Scott, Screaming Lord Sutch, Tony Martin & Roger LaVern from the Tornado's ( Telstar)
Brian Nevill Bought & sold my first ever used rock 'n' roll 45s here.
Chris Farrell i loved this shop used to live around the corner in hathaway rd
(May 15, 2015) Went here once or twice when I was into `50s stuff - must have been about 1976 and I'm guessing from the photo that either of the two Tony's would have served me (I remember whoever it was as looking distinctly 'un-ted' like). I think I bought a US pressing of 'Summertime Blues' on the United Artists Silver Spotlight series. The disc is long gone but I still have the sleeve with a little 'Broad Green Record Centre' stickered label on. I'm pretty sure the shop had gone by about `78.
Comment: Marc Griffiths.
( March 19. 2016) “Tony Martin was my first best man! (believe it or not!) so I am very familiar with BGRC. He lived at the time in a flat above the shop. Tony Scott lived in Brighton, current whereabouts unknown. Just remembered, that must have been the day that Tony got Screaming Lord Sutch’s autograph for me!!!” Barry Canham
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According to an article in 'Now Dig This' magazine, Tony Martin began his career in record retailing at Tony Scott's Broad Green Record Centre, West Croydon in the early 1970's. In 1975 he moved to Superdisc at 330 Norwood Road, West Norwood where he ran the mail order department. He later ran his own company (Tonal Records) in West Norwood in the 1980's. Sadly, he died in 2020, aged 75
According to Trev Faull's book 'A Collector's Guide to 60's Brit-Pop Instrumentals' there is an advert for Stack-A-Records in Hove (nr. Brighton) run by Tony Scott (who had previously worked at Broad Green) in issue 13 of his instro fanzine 'Instrumental Obscurities Unlimited' (published around 1976).
Broad Green Record Centre gets a mention on p.216 of Chris Groom's book 'Rockin' & Around Croydon': "... Broad Green Record Centre, which even published its own magazine - 'Red Hot', for a couple of issues during the mid seventies."
Name
Dave Harwood
(2022)
Chris Farrell i loved this shop used to live around the corner in hathaway rd
(May 15, 2015) Went here once or twice when I was into `50s stuff - must have been about 1976 and I'm guessing from the photo that either of the two Tony's would have served me (I remember whoever it was as looking distinctly 'un-ted' like). I think I bought a US pressing of 'Summertime Blues' on the United Artists Silver Spotlight series. The disc is long gone but I still have the sleeve with a little 'Broad Green Record Centre' stickered label on. I'm pretty sure the shop had gone by about `78.
Comment: Marc Griffiths.
( March 19. 2016) “Tony Martin was my first best man! (believe it or not!) so I am very familiar with BGRC. He lived at the time in a flat above the shop. Tony Scott lived in Brighton, current whereabouts unknown. Just remembered, that must have been the day that Tony got Screaming Lord Sutch’s autograph for me!!!” Barry Canham
Comment
According to an article in 'Now Dig This' magazine, Tony Martin began his career in record retailing at Tony Scott's Broad Green Record Centre, West Croydon in the early 1970's. In 1975 he moved to Superdisc at 330 Norwood Road, West Norwood where he ran the mail order department. He later ran his own company (Tonal Records) in West Norwood in the 1980's. Sadly, he died in 2020, aged 75
According to Trev Faull's book 'A Collector's Guide to 60's Brit-Pop Instrumentals' there is an advert for Stack-A-Records in Hove (nr. Brighton) run by Tony Scott (who had previously worked at Broad Green) in issue 13 of his instro fanzine 'Instrumental Obscurities Unlimited' (published around 1976).
Broad Green Record Centre gets a mention on p.216 of Chris Groom's book 'Rockin' & Around Croydon': "... Broad Green Record Centre, which even published its own magazine - 'Red Hot', for a couple of issues during the mid seventies."
Name
Dave Harwood
(2022)
Record Mirror April 1976