Complex sentence: The town was so small that in 2009, nearly 50 years from Johnston's birth, the population was only 1,658, his interest in music was hampered by the fact that there were no record shops or music stores in his hometown.
Split into simpler sentences: The town was so small that in 2009, nearly 50 years from Johnston's birth, the population was only 1,658. His interest in music was hampered by the fact that there were no record shops or music stores in his hometown.