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Greensleeves Records (shop)

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The West Ealing record shop opened by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick in November 1975 that grew into the Greensleeves label; moving to 44 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush in 1977, it turned counter demand for Jamaican imports into one of reggae and dancehall's most important catalogues.

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Story · Well supportedCounter to catalogue: how record shops became record labels

In Jamaica and the diaspora, the retail counter was the A&R department.

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