On 30 january 1969 the beatles performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their apple corps headquarters at 3 savile row within central london s office and fashion district.
Performed on roof of tower records.
Tower records was always about curation.
It was a weekday morning and my older sister and i traveled via the subway from our neighborhood in bay ridge.
They all face the store joining a chain store with strict rules.
In 1961 the younger solomon opened the first official tower records complete with its famous red on yellow signage on sacramento s watt avenue.
I still remember my first ever visit to tower records as a 13 year old in 1987.
Twenty four hours in the lives of the young employees at empire records when they all grow up and become young adults thanks to each other and the manager.
From these humble roots grew the international empire of tower records.
The record a new documentary from colin hanks looks back on a business empire that helped shape the tastes of many music fanatics.
The life and death of tower records revisited.
In 1968 and 1970 tower opened larger locations in san francisco and los angeles respectively.
With anthony lapaglia debi mazar maxwell caulfield rory cochrane.
The tower records in west hollywood that opened up shop at in 1971 was the first southern california location of the sacramento based chain and probably safe to say the most famous.
At 16 founder russ solomon cobbled together a vast inventory in the back of his sacramento calif shop tower drugstore.