Midnight Toker - when the Stones toured the USA in 1969 they were always listening to CCR in their hotel rooms, so you were in good company! And yes "Ramble Tamble" is fantastic, the breakdown in this song always reminds me of the breakdown in "Monkey Man" in a funny way

Kiss - "Dressed to Kill" - 11 years old in 1975.

The single "Wipeout" by the Surfaris in grade seven in 1971. For some reason at the time it was an "underground" hit in my elementary school. I just checked and it was released in 1963!

My first ever 45. Funny in away to think that the record shop had it in stock. It's pretty much impossible to find a CD that's more than three years old in a record store nowadays. But, I haven't actually bought a CD in 10 years!

First cassette I got was The Beatles' A Hard Days Night. When I had my first turntable, in 1981 I think, the first album I bought was Grace Jones' Living My Life. I still listen to it. Great songs and lovely bassplaying by Robbie Shakespeare.

First single Bee Gees - Staying Alive
First LP Queen - News of the World.
I was 11.

GYYYO

50.000.000 Elvis fans cant be wrong 1959

First Single: Down On The Corner/Fortunate Son CCR
First LP: Sticky Fingers

Oct.81-15 years old
Ran to the store to buy Tattoo You but I came out with Beggars Banquet from the stock..Tattoo You of course came second after a couple of days!

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Meet The Beatles

OK, it was bought for me. I was six.

That was the first album I fell in love with..at about six, seven....
belonged to my older cousins and I wore it out....especially side one.

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"The Boss" by Diana Ross

but I bought this album not because the music (I had also no record player to this time). This cover is so f*cking hot! And Diana was so extremly beautiful to that time. About 5 years later, I liked her music too.

Don't discount Upside Down, Mirror and Im Coming OUt....
but I admit, that cover, with her wet, slicked back hair and the white shirt....Diana looked good. even to a 14-year old girl.

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Crazy Horses by The Osmonds.

(Flashback!)
No shame RS, that was one of my older sister's first 45s...and I used to rock the air guitar to this song. Great record and I even remember the B-side, Keep on My Side...recorded in Muscle SHoals, written by Joe South.
This is for you Rolling Stone:

Pity CindyC is not around ;o)

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Gotta Go Home - Boney M.



1979 - I was 11. All the others were listening to ABBA.
At the end of the year I discovered AC DC, and 1981 finally the Stones.

Charlie Drake - My Boomerang Won`t Come Back.

Single: Reg's "Crocodile Rock"/"Elderberry Wine" (January 1973)

(and then a few weeks later...)

Album: The London Chuck Berry Sessions

I was 7 years old.

Been a Stonesman from the beginning.
First album I bought myself was "Bravo The Rolling Stones".
A nice compilation that was released to their triumphant 65 German tour.