Name: Oakley Boys
Comment: Simon's Sale Stores in Barking Road East Ham and Ripple Road Barking. I was friendly with the girl in East Ham and she introduced me to the Johnnie Mathis track Life Is A Song Worth Singing - very Norman Whitfield-ish - great track.
Name: BarnsleyBob
Comment: Bought my first Leon Russell album here, and many more, took the day off school to get there! Excellent shop for many years!
(20 July 2014)
Name: Jimmy The Moonlight
Comment: Simons in Barking was always good for a bargain in the 1980s. Had some great finds there after some pie and mash on Saturday afternoon expeditions with Craney and Taylor. Their yellow stickers were a bugger to get off the sleeves, though. Stuck on with cement, I think. Great place to pick up weird European pressings of Beatles LPs. Happy days.
Name: zarniwoop
Comment: At university in London in the late 1970s it was Simons Records on Oxford Street. Stupidly cheap, and a huge selection.
