This one might be fun.

For me I would have to say there are two. My older brother took me to see the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey when it came out and I was completely blown away by The Blue Danube. I had to beg and beg my mother to buy the soundtrack album for me and she refused thinking it would be "space music." Of course I had no clue what the music was and couldn't explain it to her. Finally she caved in and was somewhat surprised. The artwork on the cover was also amazing to look at and ponder for a child.

My fist official purchase was the single Wipeout by the Surfaris two or three years later. There was a big buzz in grade seven over that song. There was also a rock band that formed in the grade seven class and I think they used to practice it. So I saved up my pennies and walked to the Record Cave and bought it. I can't remember for how much, probably about 75 cents.

(In the UK).

My first record was "With The Beatles". My mum worked at Harrods (yup, that store in Knightsbridge) so she brought it home from work the day before official release.

That was Thursday 21st November 1963.

JFK was shot the next day.

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Captain Corella
60 Years a Fan

ROCKMAN

Saved enough allowance money to buy the Jackson 5 Greatest Hits when I was seven years old in 1970 - still have it!

I Want You Back
ABC
Never Can Say Goodbye
Sugar Daddy
I'll Be There
Maybe Tomorrow
The Love You Save
Who's Lovin You
Mama's Pearl
Goin' Back To Indiana
I Found That Girl

My older brother and sister already had dozens of albums, but this was the first one that I went in to a record store and bought on my own.
The Music Box located on the old Santa Monica Mall...long gone.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

First record I ever bought with my own money was Apache by the Shadows.

Sgt. Peppers - bought it at the hardware store. Probably June of 72 or 71.

Songs, Stories and Pictures of the Beatles (on VeeJay Records).

Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

First 45rpm I bought on my own... using my own lawn mowing money... was either
Rare Earth's "I just want to celebrate" or Three Dag night's version of Hoyts song "Jeremiah was a bullfrog"



First 33LP I bought on my own... with my own lawn mowing money...
took it home and wore out a couple of the tracks.
I did not really understand everything that was going on about it...
but I knew it rocked and it was pretty freekin cool.


Took me another 30 years to finally buy my first motorcycle...
and 3 more years to sell it with my health, and all limbs, in good working order


PS
And I still love those songs as much today as the first day heard them on the AM radio. LOVE THEM!

Michael Jackson's Thriller, I think. On cassette. Probably in 1989.

..."The SHADOWS" first album......

TNT - Tell No Tales on cassette @age 8 (1987). Saw them performing the same record live this january :-)

First one I really listened to was Tracy Ullman's You Broke My Heart In 17 Places in 1983 at age 4, though that was my parents' cassette.

First Rolling Stones was Bridges To Babylon on CD

I grew up with a father who had nearly all the Stones cassettes (he started collecting early 70s), so in the beginning I thought that our old silver Radionette stereo had Stones music built in.

I grew up with a father who had nearly all the Stones cassettes (he started collecting early 70s), so in the beginning I thought that our old silver Radionette stereo had Stones music built in.

That is one of the funnest coolest things I have ever read


I wish as kid someone in my influence circle had turned me onto the Stones early in life, but no one ever did. I had to figure them on my own. Of course they were always there, THE STONES, but not really in my forefront.

Others, mostly kick ass good time hard rock and rollers, were the bands I followed from age 11-25, as the Stones mostly ignored my part of the world... but then slowly over time they snuck up on me and before I realized it... here I am.

Most of the other bands have faded away and now only THE STONES stand supreme... and they still mostly ignore my part of the world... but with this new fangled internet is it easier to keep up on what is happenen... like the live show later today!

STONES!!!

The Boss by Diana Ross. I had no record player to that time, but I liked the cover so very much.

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First record I ever bought with my own money was Apache by the Shadows.

Same as my dad!

For me, it was Manchester United's 1996 FA Cup Final single, followed about a moth later by Badiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds', Three Lions On A Shirt.

The first LP I ever bought was too stupid to mention.
The first CD I bought was Black and Blue of course

So much for any credibility I may have ever had here.

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So much for any credibility I may have ever had here.

I'm thinking this one was VERY early for me. Maybe the Osmonds "One Bad Apple". First LP was "Elvis Country" @ the drugstore. I had a very warped childhood.

It was a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap LP. This was in 1968, when I was nine. I bought it because I liked the faux Civil War uniforms the band members wore in the cover photo. No other reason.

Nice truthful Annie ...



ROCKMAN

Got live if you want it les Stones!

"Nashville Skyline", Bob Dylan. 1969

Single - Hawkwind - Silver machine

Album ...


Album by a single artist..........

Goat's head soup and Humble Pie - Rockin' the Fillmore on the same day.

"Beatles Ballads" in 1981 when I was 11 with my Dad after bugging him for months to let me buy a Beatles album (he had some old 45s from the 60s I'd played to death), then came Sgt Pepper and Yellow Submarine (unhappy about the B-Side for that one). Then I bought them on my own ;-)





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hahaha: Jem and the Holograms "Flash and Sizzle" on cassette, c. 1986 or '87

"Nice bit of silk, Em."

Keep on running.....spencer davis group

Wore it out after receiving first turntable for 12th birthday..
Whammer Jammer ..lemme hear ya!

I remember in order my first 3:


DYNASTY - KISS

GOING FOR THE ONE - YES

DARK SIDE - PINK FLOYD.


the 3 on cassette.

Bye
Fernando