“Tony certainly seemed to do very well out of the business, he lived in a lovely huge stone mansion in Rossendale and drove a new Porsche 911 Turbo at the time, this would be around 1979 ish. The shop was always heaving with customers, especially on a Saturday afternoon, remember there was not a lot of mail order, other than places like Beano's and Cob records and certainly no internet downloading in those days...Video recorders had only been out about four years. I remember my brother bought one in 1977, it was a Ferguson VHS with WIRED remote control...£575.....about £2500 in today's money...Btw, Bury's Millgate precinct was built in 1972/3 and did not have any roof on it, with concrete flags for flooring...very different to how it looks now, although Boots is in the same place, I remember buying Physical Graffiti from there in 1975 upon it's release....lol!”
“The sister shop to Vibes was "Muze", which was situated where BHS is now in Bury's Millgate precinct, and was run by Tony's son. Tony sadly died around twenty years ago, and his family moved to Canada iirc. The halcyon years for "Vibes" was between 1975 and 1985, the shop is still trading, but is a shadow of it's former self.
Tony reminded me very much in looks of Deep Purple's Jon Lord around 1970.”
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