For over 50 years Dales Music Shop has been selling to locals and holidaymakers in Tenby.

Now it's featured in a chapter in a book called Last Shop Standing.

The book lifts the lid on an area of the music industry in tatters - a sad but true tale of the decline of record shops and their beloved vinyl too.

The author, Graham Jones, has worked at the heart of the record industry since the golden 1980s. He was there during the fruitful retail years and has witnessed the tragic decline of a business blighted by corruption and corporate greed.

Undertaking a final tour of the last remaining independent record shops in Britain, Graham has collected a wealth of entertaining stories that explain why the best are still standing, and how the worst of them blew it.

The book includes revealing anecdotes about rock stars and industry figures, including The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, David Bowie, Joy Division, Oasis, The Sex Pistols and John Peel.

Last Shop Standing is an hilarious, addictive, yet sometimes harrowing account written by a man who has been there and sold that.

It is a book that will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has ever bought a music CD or attended a concert, and still has the promotional tee-shirt of a favourite band to prove it.

Since getting a break into the music industry following a colleague's failed, comical suicide attempt, Graham Jones has amassed an excellent collection of anecdotes on his travels around the record shops of Britain - all included in Last Shop Standing.

Last Shop Standing is an unique slice of social history and record industry folklore.

To visit Dales is a must for anybody visiting Tenby. Owner Laurie Dale and his shop manager Richie Westmacott are real characters and are well-known to locals. Laurie is as a singer and actor, while Richie is guitarist in one of Wales's premier blues bands Elephant Gerald.

"They are like a double act bouncing banter off each other and their sheer enthusiasm for music creates a real happy atmosphere," says Graham.

He continued: "Laurie takes great pride in having many customers who first visited the store as teenagers in the 60s and are now grandparents who visit the shop with their children and grandchildren.

"It is quite satisfying to see three generations of Dales customers all in the shop at the same time.

"The shop has an interesting music policy. Six days a week the shop hears the choices of Richie, which tend to be rock and blues, while Sunday is Easy Listening Day and there is a much more relaxed feel to the store as Laurie plays his favourite crooners.

"Dales really hasn't changed much over the years and whilst holidaymakers still flock to Tenby they will be there for a long time to come."

Graham Jones was born in Liverpool and worked dead-end jobs before getting his first break in the music industry. He then went on manage The Cherry Boys, a band that made Spinal Tap look mundane, and ran his own market stall, selling 'limited edition' vinyl fruit bowls made from melted Beatles LPs. He eventually found his true vocation travelling the country selling records, tapes and CDs to independent record stores, and never looked back - until now.

Graham is one of the founders of Proper Music Distribution, the largest independently owned music distributor in the UK.

He lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire.

Graham will be visiting Dales today (Friday) from where copies of the book are available, as well as all good bookshops.