The first single you ever brought - post here and be SHAMED

[jakarta]

Was the lovely Stacia on stage that night?

Sadly I think she had left them the previous year, we had robots wandering around the stage and Mad Bob Calvert toting a sub-machine gun and shredding a Star Spangled Banner with a sword while doing Hassan I Sahba, just the normal Hawkwind stuff.....

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

We must be of similar age. I can't be 100% sure, but suspect it was either Gary Gliiter (C'mon C'mon) or Slade (Merry Xmas).

Tiger Feet- Mud.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

With drum full drummers too if I recall?

This was also a big hit in the Glover household at 13. Showaddywaddy. They don't make em like this anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9QF7ULgKRA

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Heroin, as in golden "brown". apparently....

Cocaine yeah ?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The MAGNIFCENT Eddie and the Hot Rods. An early purchase. I was a REBEL at 15.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwigKSU6kJA

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I am going to QUIT THIS TOWN !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlQvWmUdHRw&feature=fvst

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

My weekend does not officially start without a loud dose of "Nr1 Song in Heaven" by Sparks first thing Saturday am. Sorry, don't know how to post a link to it.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It's all Over Now by the Rolling Stones with birthday money on my 11th birthday when it came out in 1964.... and I am not ashamed of it.

My brother bought me the first Rolling Stones LP for Christmas that year - a gateway through in to people like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and a lifelong appreciation of Rhythm and Blues, before the term got hi-jacked by second rate singers much more recently, and back in to Chicago and other earlier Blues.

 

[T soprano]

The Specials - Rat race , from woolworths in Southwick square

 

[Rowdey]

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followed by

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looks to have around '82..

 

[SuperFurrySeagull]

Yello - The Race
Rarely bought singles as used to record good songs onto blank cassettes from the Top 40 each Sunday

You KILLED music!

 

[SuperFurrySeagull]

Abba - 'Angel Eyes / Voulez-vous' (Might have been a double A-side).

Think that was earlier than Bad Manners 'Lip up Fatty'.

 

[pipkin112]

The Specials - Rat race , from woolworths in Southwick square

I bought most of my early records from there.

 

[Art Vs Science]

Love Missile F1-11

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Oh God - I knew this would come up sooner or later.

Look, I was only 9 and I had no idea what the song was really about - I bought it with my hard earned pennies of pocket money in complete innocence.





I went to Woolies and proudly bought ....

My Dingaling by Chuck Berry.



To be fair my first gig was pretty cool though!

 

[NMH]

It's all Over Now by the Rolling Stones with birthday money on my 11th birthday when it came out in 1964.... and I am not ashamed of it.

My brother bought me the first Rolling Stones LP for Christmas that year - a gateway through in to people like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and a lifelong appreciation of Rhythm and Blues, before the term got hi-jacked by second rate singers much more recently, and back in to Chicago and other earlier Blues.

The Stones and bands like The Yardbirds brought blues across from the country that was shunning it in favour of Motown. The blue-eyed beat bands around them bordered on 'garage rock', but it was the way that our rock music was formed. Them, Downliners Sect, Manfred Mann, Grahame Bond Organ-ization, Mayall, Artwoods..... and the list goes on. A couple of years later and there was Fleetwood Mac and Cream and Chicken Shack, John Dummer, Aynsley Dunbar, and Taste, and then the styles branched out through Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd and many more.

The Stones requested when they went on the Ed Sullivan show in the US, that Howlin' Wolf got a slot on his show too, which was their way of paying their dues to the original. Here's a clip from a British show;

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[NMH]

I bought most of my early records from there.

There was a Rediffusion next door, where I bought my first LP - Jimi Hendrix, 'Cry Of Love'.

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my Heart

 

[Medwayseagull]

The first single I owned was "Little White Bull " by Tommy Steele but I cannot remember whether I bought it from my pocket money or my parents treated me ( I use the word "treated" in the broadest sense taking into account the song itself).

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

See Emily Play -- Pink Floyd

Next one I think was Paper Sun, Traffic.

First LP was The Herd (pretty boy Peter Frampton).

All went seriously downhill from there.