So many...

El Zamba in Exeter down a little arcade near Bill Greenhalgh's music store on the hill on South Street. They had a single on the juke box of Alex Campbell singing Been on the Road So Long.

Also in Exeter, there was a coffee bar above the Left Bank Record Shop in Paris Street. I used to read all the record sleeves and fantasise being able to buy one. No wonder the place went bust. Favourite music played there..anything by Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. (I was 17)

Bet ya Georgian Silver remembers those places. He was a police cadet sometime round the same time I was at the technical college - learning how to be a wastrel.

The Shades Coffee Bar, Reading - Mike Cooper and Derek Hall used to have a folk club there on Saturday nights. Favourite Record Um Um UmUmUm by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbender.(I was fifteen)

Totally favourite juke box though has to be the Ship Tavern in Boston. Cyril Howard was the landlord. There was this photograph on the wall - one of the locals meeting Brenda Lee. I was doing a teaching practice - 54 days in the coldest January I can remember, and I couldn't hack it. So the pub was my refuge. The digs the college put us into were so cold steam came out of your mouth. Coldest winter ever. I was reading War and Peace, and I can remember thinking the Battle of Austerlitz would have been a piece of piss compared to thirty eight thirteen year olds (with a reading age of eight) for thirty five minutes nine times a week, and no clue as to how to interest them. Favourite records on that box ...Nina Simone singing To Love Somebody, Doris Troy's What you Gonna Do 'Bout It.