"The Swashbuckling, Visionary Entrepreneur"

"What Tower achieved was a sensation. Until the 1960s, there weren't many record stores outside of the Sam Goody chain in New York. Music was sold mostly in the remote corners of department stores. Inspired in part by dad's drug store, which sold a wide variety of goods, Solomon offered music fans a veritable feast, with generous helpings of the offbeat and obscure. Word soon went out: Tower sold records you couldn't find anywhere else."

At The Sacramento Bee, Dale Kasler and Bob Shallit report the death of Tower Records founder Russ Solomon.

As do Ed Christman and Colin Stutz at Billboard.