Remember When You Were Young....

Abbey Road. The first purchase of about 3500.

Fraser

Led Zep II

The first album I bought was The Byrds "Younger Than Yesterday" and I still love and play the album.

I remember the day I bought it and have followed The Byrds, Roger McGuinn and David Crosby ever since.

I have managed to see Roger and David quite a few times but unfortunately missed out on The Byrds on tour in The U.K. sometime in the early 70's.

I have the cover framed and hanging in my study in pride of place.

Richard

Perhaps I should have added that, freakily, I had last played Led Zep II just 30 mins before the OP. Spooky!

The first vinyl album I bought was East Of Eden's Snafu. For the life of me I can't remember when (or why!) I got rid of it.

Prior to that it had been pre-recorded cassettes but I can't remember what the first one was.

steve

Are you still listening to it Steve?

My father bought me many albums when I was young and to me, in the late '60s LPs were very expensive. I think that Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac was the first I can remember buying for myself in Exeter shortly after seeing them live. Despite many plays over the years it still sounds superb.

Steve

Wooooo.....behind you.....!

Machine Head.

I used to get up early every morning and listen to it before I went to school. I don't still listen to that copy, it obviously got pretty worn out. I listen the 25th Anniversary CD boxset.

This was the first record I ever bought, when I was 10:

I remember seeing it on "Top of The Pops" and thinking the guy playing the drums was really ace. The B-side was great too.

I still have this single, and indeed played it about a week ago. It still sounds friggin' brilliant:

Click here to listen to it

I think the second record i bought was "Tiger Feet" by Mud but I don't appear to have that one any more probably excised in my 1978 purge of ideologically unacceptable records

This was the first album I owned:

No longer have this either - another victim of the punk wars

And this is the oldest album I still possess - bought in November 1976 in The Music Room in Tunbridge Wells:

Nice choice, I used to love smoke on water

This was a great track and certainly showed others ( like Phil collins) how to really play the drums.

I am embarrased to say I think my first album was a Gary Glitter disc. Obviously been disposed of a long time ago.

One of my favourite old albums is rick wakeman journey to the centre of the earth, and also like re playing billy joels innocent man and fleetwood mac rumours

Now if like Kevin-W and Cbr600 we're going to broaden this out to singles rather than albums as Graeme originally asked I'm going to have give a different answer. My first single was Sunshine of your love by Cream. That particular 45 has long gone together with most of my vinyl collection but I still have and play Sunshine of your love on CD. 

Has to be albums! G

With my own pocket money 2/6 a week.

Half-a-crown. Those were the days. That's what it used to cost me to get in the kids' entrance at football on Saturday afternoons.  Don't think you'd get into a game for the price of an album today! 

"With my own pocket money 2/6 a week." In 1963, presumably.

I only realised how miserably off I was as a child when I started to read the autobiographies of people about 10-15 years older than I.

I was getting 6d in 1963. My 'studies' suggest this was the going rate, for children of parents of the same means as my own, in about 1950!

Ridiculously, 50 years on, I resent this hugely. I am sure that it has also generated permanent difficulties spending money.

I bought my first album (Abbey Road) in 1969. How did I fund it? I stole the money, of course - I had, by this stage, been stealing regularly for about 5 years. I decided against it, as a practice, shortly after. I have never been as good at anything else since!

How did others fare, pocket-money-wise?

Fraser

Fraser

Gale 401 could have purchased his Beatles record with 2/6 anytime up until 1971, which is when decimalisation occurred, a condition of the UK's entry to the EEC (along with other things like VAT replacing Purchase Tax).    

I never got regular pocket money that I didn't earn with a Sunday paper round but my dad did buy me albums every now and again.

I guess 'Rolled Gold' would be the first about 33 years ago now! Still listen to the tracks but on all the separate albums rather than a compilation. G

Eurythmics - Be yourself tonight.

Funded through a mixture of pocket money and a paper round. 

How come you got half a crown when I only got a two bob bit (in fact I think I used to get 1s 10p) ... and that was after 6 hours up chimney and three down pit ... kids today don't know how luck they are, back in the u.s.s.r .... I funded mine shortly before 5th November by asking passers by if they had a penny for me.