He became the buyer for McDougall's record shop in Falkirk, run by his mother, then at stores in Edinburgh, London and Stirling.
Findlay helped his brother found Brian's in Falkirk in 1967, then they expanded to open Bruce's in 1969, in Edinburgh's Rose Street.
[1][2][3][4][5][6] Findlay organised the first Edinburgh Pop Festival in 1973, which featured among others the Incredible String Band, Can, Planxty, the Chieftains, John Martyn, Kevin Ayers, George Melly and Procol Harum.
[7][8] Zoom signed many Scottish punk and new wave bands, some of them, later well known and successful, such as Simple Minds, who Findlay managed from 1978 to 1990.
The first single released by Zoom was "Robot Love" (with "For Adolfs Only" as B-side), by the Valves, on 30 August 1977, selling 15,000 copies.