But I wasn’t ever really a collector of American vinyl. We didn’t realise at the time that there was a company in America already called Memory Lane. When I told my friends, they said Memory Lane would be a good name for the shop. Where did the name Memory Lane come from?Ī guy from Radio Jackie called Mike Knight used to call me Mickey Memory. I kind of fell in love with the aura of the shop and it was the first day my wallet actually got emptied. Before that, I had only been to a few 78 record fairs, but Vintage Records was just a place I wanted to be. It was a bit of a rickety rackety shop, but boy did they have some good stuff in there. I visited Vintage Records in north London. I had been to a few second hand record shops that had recently opened and had always wanted to do it. What were your main reasons for wanting to open a shop? Shop front of Memory Lane Records in Morden. I’ve still got boxes from that time which I haven’t even opened, so that’s how bad the knot was. We’re still sorting out the knot now actually. If you don’t do that you get yourself into a right knot and we did at the start. You want to make sure you lay everything out properly from the beginning. You just want to start selling, but there are all these traps waiting for you. It’s a lot of heartache and a lot of strife. In 1989 we closed the Morden shop, and reopened in Croydon in 1994 having done record fairs in between. So I started to sell my collection off and Memory Lane went from there. It was suggested to me that I start selling my own record collection, which was heart-breaking, but that’s life. I had a really bad accident, and had to turn my hobby into a business.
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We opened Memory Lane in Morden (London, UK) in 1984. Hi, my names Mick Reynolds and I own Memory Lane Records.
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Now trading online, in his 50+ years of buying and selling records, what Mick doesn’t know about music isn’t worth knowing. Owner of the once legendary London based record shop, Memory Lane.
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But what’s it really like? In our series “The Life of a Record Dealer”, we interview a friend and colleague of Shakedown Records, Mick Reynolds. For many music lovers, buying and selling records in your very own record shop would be a dream come true.