Much longer than that - Right back to the 1970s & maybe even before. There was a day when even Boots ran a small but surprisingly good music department on that site. Every time I climbed the stairs in Zavvi & Virgin before it, I remember back to the day in the early 80s, when I went there on one of my first days out of hospital after a very serious illness, bought two albums & went to leave the shop. On reaching the top of the stairs, I began to stagger from the effort & swayed into a large display at the top, sending the whole thing crashing all over the place amidst crowds of shoppers (think it was just before or after Christmas) diving to get out of the way. I must have still looked pretty ill, the staff were so nice & got me a chair & saw I was OK whilst others were sent to pick-up al the bottles/tubs of whatever! o_O Oh, later-on, when I was better, I also remember a girl called Julie who I used to meet there quite often who I had a bit of a thing for. Ahhh! Yeah, Zavvi might have been a bit shite but passing it tonight, all dark & shut-up was a bit sad - another of my personal musical landmarks in this city gone, probably for the last time?