It was banned from the record player in my house. They listened to classical music 24/7 and I rebelled against that. My parents were very much into their classical music. What were the first genres to take your interest? I had a job cleaning cars and all the money went on either clothes or records. At the time, there were loads of records about so you could pick them up pretty cheap. No doubt you need a big wallet to collect vinyl. What was the worst thing about collecting vinyl? When I was about 12, it was something I just liked it, especially the psychedelic stuff. As I was growing up, I was brought up on classical music, so to hear pop music was refreshing.
Well, I suppose it opened up a world of people and music. What was the best thing about collecting vinyl? It was a 10 bob job and had quite a few marks on it. This caused a massive row with my mum as I had spent all my pocket money on this one record. Once I set my eyes on getting the record that was it. I just kept on offering him more money for it. I knew he didn’t want to sell it, but would at the right price. My first second hand record was ‘The Bus Stop’ by The Hollies, released in 1966. I went into a little shop and it was playing. My first new record I ever bought was ‘Everlasting Love’ by The Love Affair. What was your first record you ever bought? You buy and buy until you complete the collection. Because I started collecting them, I then had to finish the collections. I started collecting the labels and the numbers. I was collecting records at the time for the music and they had a certain thing about them. I started collecting vinyl when I was about 12 and I would have liked to open Memory Lane then, but that wasn’t the thought. Were you collecting vinyl before you opened Memory Lane? I mostly bought British collectable’s and British label’s, because I could never afford to get all the American vinyl that I wanted. 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. We opened Memory Lane in Morden (London, UK) in 1984. Hi, my names Mick Reynolds and I own Memory Lane Records. 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.
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