The seed of wanting to own a record shop was planted early on in my teens when it first dawned on me that the fantasy of being in a band was probably not going to happen. Working in a record shop seemed the next best thing. I started nurturing the ambition to own one in my late teens whilst working at Wessex Records in Bath in 1977. It took another 16 years of manning the tills in various record stores (with a few career deviations thrown in) before I realised that dream in 1995 when Sound Knowledge opened its doors for the first time and continues to do so.
