"Brianâs other companion was Rita Harris, a NEMS employee. Sheâd been at Great Charlotte Street several months when a deep friendship dropped into place at the companyâs annual staff dinner-dance, Christmas 1959. He seems to have confided in her from the start: âHe was not a very happy person. He was so lonely. He said no one was really happy but that one should aim to be reasonably content. He admitted he was a homosexual and talked about it frequently: it used to make him very depressed. He hated himself for it, and never remembered being any other way.â
The intimacy of Brianâs revelationsâhis need to confide, and hers to listenâstirred something. Love developed on both sides, though it wasnât consummated. He spoke to Rita of his private life using the record-business term ânew releasesââhe once wrote saying, âThe New Release has stopped selling. Trouble is that having sold quite well for quite a time, itâs difficult to clear away bad stock.â (This sounds like a longish relationshipâBrian had precious few of these.)
Through staff appointments, Brian kept friends close by. Ray Standing, another Great Charlotte Street employee, saw a pattern: âI think there were nine blokes working at Nems at one time and only three of us were straight. The Walton Road shop was OK because that was his dadâs store, but when Brian opened up in town thatâs when they started to flock in, so to speak. - Tune In, Mark Lewisohn
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