Retailers remember Nesbitt for 'inspirational' approach. (News).

Music retailing has lost one of its great entrepreneurs with the death of Our Price and MVC founder Garry Nesbitt from leukaemia.

Sixty-year-old Nesbitt, who leaves a wife and four children following his death last Tuesday night, is hailed by industry sources as a true pioneer of retailing.

Woolworths Entertainment commercial director and MVC managing director Richard Izard says Nesbitt "created a new model" of music retailing. He says, "He was quite inspirational, he always had new ideas and it is his creativity that I remember."

Former WEA managing director John Fruin, who knew Nesbitt from the days of the first shop, also believes the retailer helped change the music landscape.

"He introduced some very forward-thinking retailing ideas," he says. "He was a brilliant entrepreneur who built two successful businesses and remained a nice guy."

Nesbitt and his partner Michael Isaacs launched Tape Revolution in 1971 after Nesbitt, who had bought an eight-track stereo, was unable to buy any cartridges.

"He went down to the only shop in London that had them, but it was shut; it was the lunch hour," says Isaacs. "He thought there and then 'There must be more than one place in London to buy them.'"