What was the first record you bought

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Re: What was the first record you bought

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Wild thing/fom home by the Troggs - second hand from "David's book shop" in Letchworth when I was about ten years old. Didn't even have a record player at home. By the time I bought a stereo, I had lost the single so never listened to it.

First album (which I did listen to); Steve Howe, Beginnings - must have a listen, getting on for forty years since I have had it out :-?
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Thinking even further back in time. I received a radio/cassette player for a birthday (11 or 12 years old) and Woolworths had racks of Classical cassettes for next to nothing. So my pocket money went on discovering the Great Works like Tchaikovsky's '1812', Vivaldi 'Four Seasons', Beethoven's '5th', Holst 'Planets' etc.. This was years before I was introduced to the murky world of progressive rock.

And I had a tape of 'Evita' (original studio version) which I played to death.
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First record I bought; ' She's so modern' - Boomtown Rats, spring 78. Great pop song! Rather I had chose Applemarcs firsts though.
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First single - Hold Your Head Up - Argent.
First LP - Slade Alive!
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Space Oddity - David Bowie...

...followed by The Puppy Song by David Cassidy

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The Police 'Roxanne' 7"single.
The 1st record I received (with my record player) was A Hard Day's Night.
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Fretless wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:13 am Thinking even further back in time. I received a radio/cassette player for a birthday (11 or 12 years old) and Woolworths had racks of Classical cassettes for next to nothing. So my pocket money went on discovering the Great Works like Tchaikovsky's '1812', Vivaldi 'Four Seasons', Beethoven's '5th', Holst 'Planets' etc.. This was years before I was introduced to the murky world of progressive rock.

And I had a tape of 'Evita' (original studio version) which I played to death.
'Don't cry for me Argentina .... ' :dance:
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Traffic - Hole in my Shoe (1967): 7" single.
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The Who - Join Together 1972. Cost 45p which for a 10 year old was a lot of money back then. Wish I still had it, great single.

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Rockbuster - Double Vinyl for 29s 11d

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