Brian's Original Signed Autograph
on his "A Cellarful Of Noise"
Seller says: "This book was given to my mum by Brian Epstein
as she worked with his brother in Liverpool and is completely original."
A few screencaps of Brian in his record store
From the video The Mersey Sound
The original Epstein's furniture store in the early 60's
NEMS division of Epstein's ~
 | An early ad for the NEMS store that our Brian managed My, my! What backbreaking working hours our young master Brian endured! *sarcastic snicker* |
Holding the boys who, to his family's
initial despair, ended his oh-so-promising
career as ...errmmm... a record salesman!?
Early publicity shot of Brian's boys taken inside the Whitechapel NEMS store.
PHOTO NABBED FROM CHAZZ AVERY's THE SAVAGE YOUNG BEATLES WEBSITE
A selection of shopping bags that the NEMS stores used
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NEMS Whitechapel store in 1962 CLICK FOR LARGER  | What Brian's store is now, in the 21st Century? A Victoria's Secret clone called "Ann Summers" CLICK FOR LARGER   Photo on the right, credit THE MATHEW STREET WEBSITE! |
And now, all we've got left is the NEMS "wall of records" exhibit at The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool. |  |
Wow. How did this simple eBay auction spawn such a melange of NEMS trivia?
Fer Pete's sake! I obsessively labored over 4 hours on this post.
Oh yeah, the seller's mum worked for the Epsteins. With Clive. Lucky mum.
I'd love to meet the lady ~ she was some anonymous clerk, most likely. Probably couldn't give me much insight, other than a general idea of how it felt to work for the Epsteins. A few simple stories would be nice, though. I'd eat up that info :)
Speaking of eating up, Dale's due to be home from cleaning the church, and we're going somewhere.
Alistair's 2001 visit to the remnants of NEMS at the Ann Summers
