Chris Hopson, the longtime Tower Records senior management executive, died Feb. 3, after a 30-year-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 67.
Hopson, who ultimately rose to the position of executive vice president and chief marketing officer for the superstore chain, began his career at the now defunct Tower Records in 1970, thanks to working in a jeans shop called Bluebeard in 1969, which was next door to the chain’s Watt Avenue store in Sacramento, Calif.
"The cool thing about Chris — he empowered people to empower themselves," says Carol Mott-Binkley, who worked as Hopson’s assistant for 16 years at Tower before moving over to work in the executive suite at the company. "I was just a punk off the street but he groomed me to be the assistant to the president of Tower."
Stan Goman, who was the chief operating officer of Tower, remembers rising through the company ranks with Hopson until they reached the corporate office and worked together for almost two decades as the chain expanded globally with stores in 13 countries outside of the U.S. Fran Aliberti, who was the senior vp of sales for WEA back then, remembers Hopson as a tough negotiator. When Aliberti went to Tower to cut marketing deals for WEA’s labels' music, Hopson "was one tough mofo to deal with, but he did it in such a way with that nice soft demeanor that you would up giving Tower way more than you should have," Aliberti says.
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