My parents’ KB Junior radiogram. BSR UA8 turntable and LW/MW/VHF radio. Single-ended pentode output courtesy of an EL84.
This thing made me aware of music from an early age, playing Ted Heath and His Music, Jack Parnell etc 78s.
It then moved onto The Shadows, then The Beatles, Stones Tamla Motown, played by our babysitters when mum and dad were down the pub.
Then we were onto T Rex, Slade, Alice Cooper, Bowie, Roxy Music etc. I wired an extension speaker out through the downstairs window and into my bedroom window directly above, so could pipe music into my room from downstairs whilst mum and dad watched TV. There was a little knurled screw round the back to turn off the main speaker when the extension speaker was being used.
The mains transformer burned out in 1972 and my dad went out and bought a solid state HMV stereogram, which sounded frankly crap compared to this venerable old valve classic.
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Somebody’s telling me the latest scandals.
Somebody’s stepping on my plastic sandals. Joe Jackson (1979)