Record shopping in the early 1980's

My guess would be that this photo was taken after John's death and is in early 1981, when there was a splurge of new Beatles fans and a need for selling more Beatles albums.   From how I see it, this is when I think Beatles fandom when up in numbers:

1964:  When the Beatles came to America
1974:  10th year of the Beatles and rumors of Beatles reunion
1981:  John's death
1995:  Beatles Anthology
2000:  Beatles 1 release
2009:  Beatles Rock Band
2014:  Beatles 50th Anniversary of Beatles in America (hope so!)

So this is just my opinion.   There might be other smaller spikes in fandom (maybe in 1987 when the Cds were first released)  And I am not sure if the Beatles Rock Band really showed a big spike in fandom  or not.  It would be interesting to see record sales for these time periods.    Did you become a fan around the time of these events?