Performed On Roof Of Tower Records

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.

Performed on roof of tower records.

Tower records was always about curation. Joined by keyboardist billy preston the band played a 42 minute set before the metropolitan police asked them to reduce the volume. Directed by allan moyle. The record a new documentary from colin hanks looks back on a business empire that helped shape the tastes of many music fanatics.

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. In 1968 and 1970 tower opened larger locations in san francisco and los angeles respectively. In 1961 the younger solomon opened the first official tower records complete with its famous red on yellow signage on sacramento s watt avenue. 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.

It was a weekday morning and my older sister and i traveled via the subway from our neighborhood in bay ridge. From these humble roots grew the international empire of tower records. They all face the store joining a chain store with strict rules. At 16 founder russ solomon cobbled together a vast inventory in the back of his sacramento calif shop tower drugstore.

I still remember my first ever visit to tower records as a 13 year old in 1987.