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Business News Obituaries
Andy Cash dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 June 2010
Andy Cash, who ran three independent record shops in the Midlands from the early eighties through to 2007, all bearing his name, has died, aged 56.
Cash, who began his music retail career at Birmingham record shop Tempest in the seventies, before a stint as a rep at EMI, became a well known figure in the Midlands music scene, particularly once the Andy Cash Records mini-chain was established.
His shops were a key part of the independent retail scene in the region for well over twenty years, until the slump in physical record sales at the start of the last decade forced him to cut back the scale of his business, shutting the final of his shops in 2007.
Dave Williams, a school friend of Cash who helped him set up his first shop, told Music Week this week: “He was like an English gent. He was a record man really. He had a good knowledge as well as being good with the customers, getting on with people”.
