Musicians Mourn the Demise of Chain That Offered 'Character and Community' Arts: Iconic Record Retailer Closes Arts: Iconic Record Retailer Closes Administrators Move in to Find Out What Brought the Fopp Empire Down

Sunday Herald › July 03, 2007

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TOP Scottish musicians have come together to lament the closure of Fopp, Britain's biggest independent music retailer. The record shop chain, which started as a market stall in Glasgow in 1981 and grew to accumulate more than 100 stores across the UK, including 11 in Scotland, closed on Friday.

Described by Scottish DJ Mylo aka Myles McInnes as being "like a library", Fopp boasted such an extensive selection of music that it arguably provided the soundtrack to the lives of an entire generation and influenced some of Scotland's most popular artists.

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Musicians Mourn the Demise of Chain That Offered 'Character and Community' Arts: Iconic Record Retailer Closes Arts: Iconic Record Retailer Closes Administrators Move in to Find Out What Brought the Fopp Empire Down

The Byres Road store was viewed as the central hub of Fopp's empire, with members of bands such as Belle And Sebastian and Arab Strap frequently dropp...

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