With thanks to a recent comment on one of our posts, more of the shops history has been unearthed which we were unaware of! We have recently discovered that Beatles manager Brian Epstein used to frequent the shop along with former Beatles manager Joe Flannery to buy records which they did not have in stock at NEMS. We were always aware of Joe Flannery coming in as he’d often speak to my Great Nan Dorothy to promote his brother’s band Lee Curtis & The All Stars. We always assumed Brian Epstein wo

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