The story of the US’s biggest record store is
told in a talky but absorbing documentary.
A while
back there was a TV series which showed new businesses starting up and how they
coped with the initial launch. It was quite an eye opener seeing how much is
involved to the point where you were left wondering how any business managed to
get started. This documentary by Colin Hanks seems to suggest things were a lot
easier back in the 1960s in the United States. It tells the story of Tower
Records which became the largest music chain in the US and even had a branch in
London which I remember well. Considering how huge Tower became the origins
appear to have been a mixture of chance and opportunism. 
