16/10/2026
Last week we celebrated 50 years of Dixon’s. This week, we caught up with the legend who started it all, and he still lights up talking about records.
David Dixon grew up in a big, musical family, learning to put the needle on his sister’s 78s when he was barely tall enough to reach the turntable.
Later on when he told his uncle he wanted a business of his own, the advice was simple. “Make your hobby your business, David.”
So he did. A stack of 5,000 secondhand 45s became a little shop in Blackburn, and half a century later is still going, with a shop right here on High Street.
The Northcote store has been part of Northcote Rise for five years now, and David is the first to say the staff are the heart of it. Plenty of them are musos and mad collectors themselves, and when something unusual comes in, it goes straight on the turntable.
Fair warning though. The 70s stuff moves fast, especially Pink Floyd and AC/DC, and a copy of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours never hangs around for long.
Pop in, have a flick through and say hello. Here’s to the next 50.
