Thanks to Matt Thomas for finding this.
source… http://everyrecordtellsastory.com/2014/09/03/remember-smash-hits-magazine/
Dave Luck… Yes
Nick Prince… Yes. It was upstairs…
Steve Thorpe… Yep, still got a C60 cassette bought from there with a Top 20 recorded onto it!
Roy Penfold… Upstairs – past the home brew section!
Alan Esdaile… I did buy a few singles from them, when the others were out of stock but if I remember rightly the album sleeves were so jammed tight in the racks you couldn’t see what they were!
Alan Pepper… Yes I think in October 1971 they were 50pence each and remember i bought Al Green’s tired of being alone ! They also had a reduced section 29 pence singles and bought any on Tamla Motown label that didn’t chart . Good old Boots !
Nigel Ford… Sure do!… the arched listening alcoves had headphones wired in and the first one wasn’t working when I asked to listen to GRAND FUNK “Live Album” whom I’d not heard of before, but the sound came through the second one well and a band that were the loudest in the world at the time (ousting Grateful Dead..?) became one of my all time favourites from just seeing the album cover and thinking “Hey, they look exciting”….. another power trio like CREAM? I don’t remember buying anything else from there though, normally it was Disc Jockey & later Stylus where I bought stuff.
Eric Cawthraw… Never used it myself, but then I was never in to sole music. [Apology to all – but I couldn’t stop myself].
Jim Breeds… Yes remember it well. Good selection too. Alongside the photographic section I think. Steve I have loads of cassette tapes with the Sunday evening Radio 1 charts programme. Probably a couple of dozen. Some may be on Boots cassettes.