Music Week reports that Mary Finlay, who ran the Soho Records chain of indie record shops in London during the 1960s, has died.
A native Scot, after heading up the London stores in the sixties, Finlay later returned to her hometown of Glasgow to begin her own business, Casa Cassettes, opening four branches throughout the city in the seventies.
Music Week quote Universal consultant Bill Holland, who calls Finlay "a great character", while noting that Casa Cassettes' main store on Sauchiehall street became a "Mecca for lovers of nostalgia, jazz and all sounds esoteric".