What was the first record you bought

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Elvis Costello and the Attractions - 45rpm single “Pump it Up”
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Single: Let's Hang On! by the Four Seasons

Album: The Beatles (The White Album)

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1st single : Helen Shapiro : Walking back to happiness 1961
1st album : Cliff Richard : Summer Holiday 1963

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Lindsayt wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 7:29 am Black and White by Stranglers. Bought it from a record shop in Sidcup for £1.99. Around about 1980.
Still one of my favourite albums, still have my original 1978 copy but pretty much unplayable now.
I queued up outside HMV in Brighton for The Raven and got a copy with the 3D sleeve.
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mine was parallel lines by blondie.

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Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United single.

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setting son wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:23 pm Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United single.
and there was me thinking it was a going to be a jam album

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First LP was Stiff’s Live tour - 1977

Still a great record
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J Geils Band Centerfold back in 82 when i was 11, and not long after that Atomic Roosters Assortment album, mainly because my dad had it and i wanted my own.
Devils answer is still and will always be one of my favourites.
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T.Rex ride a white swan album which was basically a bunch of old Tyrannasorus Rex numbers with the single added on, I still have it.
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