This was a first! We were honoured for the shop to have been chosen to host the wedding photographs for two of our customers on Saturday afternoon. It’s lovely to know our shop played such an important part to their special day! ♥️

Out tomorrow! These local lads have reissued Rubber Soul presented with new stereo & dolby atmos mixes, previously unreleased sessions, demos and studio chat! Friday 2nd October Rubber Soul LP Rubber Soul LP Box Set Rubber Soul CD Rubber Soul CD Box Set

Excited to announce we will be taking part in this years National Album Day Saturday 17th October! The full drop list can be viewed on the official National Album Day website. Please feel free to message us your wish list and we’ll order it in for you. See you October 17th!

We’ve found them! These are the cinema slides that advertised the shop at the Carlton Cinema in Tuebrook & the Premier Cinema in Old Swan between 1947-1960. All the music played during the intervals were 78rpm records provided by my Great Nan Dorothy, as the shops advertisement was displayed on the screen. These had gone missing for years but we’ve just recently found them!

We’re celebrating International Beatles week here at Liverpool's oldest record shop! If your out and about for @Beatleweek come dig through our huge selection of Beatles records, take a tour of the shop, check out our upstairs museum and walk in the steps of John Lennon, Pete Best, Brian Epstein & Joe Flannery!

The upstairs cabinet! When The Musical Box opened in 1947, alongside 78rpm records the shop also stocked guitar strings, harmonicas, stylus & fancy goods. This is just a small part of the surplus stock! We've always wondered if John Lennon used to purchase his banjo strings from the shop when he used to visit during the early 60's, when he was staying at Hayman's Green.

Just landed! A very eclectic haul of second hand records! The largest amount of collections we’ve bought in a while. Ranging all the way from house through to rock, pop and loads of Beatles. Just need to price them all then they’ll be hitting the crates!

Have you ever noticed the 78’s record sleeves framed in our upstairs shop floor? All these record sleeves belonged to long lost Liverpool record shops, some of them are over 100 years old! How many street names do you recognise?

Out Friday! The 25th Rolling Stones studio album Foreign Tongues including 14 new Stones tracks available on all formats! CD CD Box Set Vinyl Vinyl Box Set

Then and now! 1951-2026 During the early 60's Tony's Grandad Charles took a rare trip away to Earl's Court Motorshow. On the only day he happened to be away a car crashed straight into the shop completely destroying all the window display and door. The whole shop front had to be redesigned and rebuilt into how it looks today!

Tony’s Birthday today also shared with fellow scouser Paul McCartney! With it being Macca’s Birthday also we thought we’d revisit another one of our magical mysteries for over 50 years. My Nan Diane came across these x2 7” singles in the 70’s with the name Paul McCartney stickered on. They were believed to have been a part of his personal collection when he was a teen prior to The Beatles, Diane had them in storage for decades. The Beatles covered A Shot Of Rhythm & Blues at many BBC performances and both songs were of Pauls taste of the time. If these are confirmed to be Pauls we would love to gift them back to him! Happy Birthday Paul! 🎉

The history behind the shops 115 year old piano! The John Brinsmead & Sons piano originally purchased from Rushworth & Dreaper came from my Great Nan Dorothy’s home after surviving the Liverpool May Blitz in 1941, it was relocated to the shop when opening in 1947. When we renovated the second shop floor 5 years ago we thought it would be only fitting to have the piano restored and brought back to life, as in later years it had begun to sound like Les Dawsons. Since it’s restoration the piano has been played by the likes of Rick Wakeman, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Craig Charles, Steve Nieve and regularly by customers. Diane was always pleased to know that her Mother Dorothy’s piano was still being played & enjoyed all these generations later!

Out today from fellow scouser @PaulMcCartney! Macca's 18th studio album, named after the road in Speke where he visited as a boy. The Boys Of Dungeon Lane captures the days of nostalgic memories growing up in Liverpool and represents Paul never forgetting his roots. Out now on vinyl & CD!

The Musical Box turns 79! 🎉 With everything going on recently, we completely forgot it was the shops 79th birthday this week alongside what would have been Diane’s 89th and Paula’s birthday today. With Diane’s recent passing we are even more motivated and determined than ever. We have so many plans and ideas for the future of The Musical Box to continue Diane’s legacy and make her proud, starting from next week. The shop will be closed on Thursday 14th for Diane’s funeral. For anybody who would like to join us in celebrating Diane’s life and the shops 79th birthday, come down this Saturday for cake, cuppa and a chat!

April 15th my Nan Diane passed away during the busiest week of the year, three days before Record Store Day. We’ve been that busy with funeral arrangements and RSD, we haven’t even had time to process it all. There are no words to describe how grateful our family are for all the support we received for RSD and for the heartfelt messages and condolences for Diane’s passing. We’ve been overwhelmed to see the impact Diane made on peoples lives. My Nan never really understood the importance of the legacy she had built with the shop, the history behind it and for introducing music to Liverpool. It was only towards the end when me and my Mum Paula got involved, we were able to shine a light on Diane’s accomplishments and she was able to have more of an understanding of what she had contributed to our city, which made her very happy. For those who would like to join us in celebrating Diane’s life, her funeral will be held at St John The Divine’s Church in Greasby Thursday 14th May 1:00. There will be a donation box on the day to raise funds for the Strawberry Fields charity, a special place of significant meaning and importance for The Musical Box. Donations would be greatly appreciated and can also be made online with the link below. strawb.co/inmemoryofdiane Also a huge thank you to the Liverpool Echo for their beautiful tribute ♥️

Lovely to have Dave Grohl drop in the shop this morning to pick up the new Foo Fighters album ‘Your Favorite Toy’ out tomorrow while checking out Anfield ahead of the two massive headline shows in June! This is one of our loyal customers who believe it or not is also called Dave 🤣