Phantasmagoria Montreal

07/17/2026

Tu rappelles-tu?

“Witch Tai To” by Everything Is Everything (1969)

This is the original vinyl 45 version of "Witchi Tai To", the only ...

08/06/2025

Peter’s gold record in its new home. Thanks, Lois!!!❤️❤️❤️

08/01/2025

My Best Man, both at my wedding in 1987 and at Phantasmagoria Montreal throughout the ‘80’s, Peter Fowler, was recognized for his passion and salesmanship for promoting Blue Rodeo’s debut album, also in 1987, with this gold record plaque. In addition, Vic Karakul, my main man and manager of Phantasmagoria Montreal throughout the 70’s and Phantasmagoria Vancouver in the 80’s, while attending my wedding in Toronto, was introduced to Blue Rodeo by me on our way to the airport for his return to Vancouver and I gifted him the cassette we’d been listening to as a farewell gift as he left me at the departures area at the airport. Peter’s sister, Lois, just gifted me with this treasure that she decided to part with and I am very grateful to her for her generosity! It shall hang with pride on my gallery wall!

06/07/2025

From The Montreal Gazette: Memories of Phantasmagoria

06/07/2025

Deja Vu: The Exhibit - Montreal Gazette Feature “Little Shop of Wonders”.

01/28/2025

Rufus Wainwright remembers buying his first record - at Phantasmagoria!!! This is from The Guardian’s Saturday Magazine. Wainwright’s opera “Dream Requiem” was just released on January 17. Apparently he’s dropped the Rufus and now goes by just Wainwright like Verdi, Rossini, Madonna, et al.❤️❤️❤️

11/28/2024

56 years ago today I was on my way to Capitol Records Montreal warehouse on Airport Road to pick 100 copies of “The Beatles” White Album for the opening day of Phantasmagoria. Every year on this anniversary I remember the excitement of unboxing the very first shipment of records and welcoming our first customers through the door. Although November 27 is the official release date in Canada of the “White Album” as it was instantly referred to Capitol Records didn’t ship it to stores until the next day. We had to pay cash ($800.) for that first order and then were given a credit account so that we could stock the store and pay for the inventory later, in 30-60 days. We headed back to Capitol the next morning for another 100 copies and that must have repeated itself for quite a while. Slowly, one by one, the other record companies got on board and opened accounts with credit so we could build up our selection. It was pretty lean to start with and took a while for the walls to fill in. They were pretty exciting times!!!

11/28/2023

Cue jet engines for take off! It’s that time again! Today, November 28 marks the 55th Anniversary of Phantasmagoria’s opening AND the Canadian release of “THE BEATLES”, aka the White Album! It is still a throbbing, vital, ingenious work of art that is a joy to listen to track by track in its entirety! Imagine if the store were still open and the old
bald man behind the counter was the same guy you bought it from in 1968!

11/28/2022

The first sounds heard as Phantasmagoria opened its doors for the first time 54 years ago today on November 28, 1968!

Cue jet engines!!!

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