I'm not sure which was the first single I bought. I went into Woolworths in Gillingham with the intention of buying Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army, which I did, but also managed to come back with The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump (that one with the really long Maori name in the intro).
The first single that was bought for me was actually an EP - The Magical Mystery Tour, complete with a fantastic comic book, which I used to spend hours poring over. Man, I can smell the radiogram from here.
I'm not sure which was the first single I bought. I went into Woolworths in Gillingham with the intention of buying Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army, which I did, but also managed to come back with The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump (that one with the really long Maori name in the intro).
That was an actual name? I just assumed it was gibberish. I have a horrible image of a video for it depicting a cartoon "tribesman" of some sort with a bone through his nose.
I always link that song with. 'Nice Legs, Shame About the Face' by The Monks, possibly because they were on the same edition of 'TOTP' or maybe because they're both linked with The Kenny Everett Show in my mind.
It was the longest place name in the world, I believe. I'm pretty sure that hearing it on the Kenny Everett show was the reason why I bought it. Even for my childish tastes, it soon became tiresome, mind.
Are Friends Electric was a colossus of a song though, even if Gary Numan did sound like Bluebottle off of the Goon Show.
Wild Honey by the Beach Boys. It cost me 7/6 at the Co-op in Bracknell (second floor - much fun had at the time, riding up and down in the lifts. We knew how to enjoy ourselves in those days.) It's now a cheap goods shop - nicknamed 'Harrods' by locals.
I'd much rather I could say I'd bought a better one by them. I'd been building up a head of steam of love for their music, but my first buying power coincided with Wild Honey.
This TOTP performance inspired 12 year old me to buy it while Christmas shopping a couple of days later
Oh man, I love this track.
In a tragic installment of "where are they now", one of Altern 8 is currently doing time at HMP Exeter for dealing heroine on the streets of Plymouth.
erwin wrote:
I'd much rather I could say I'd bought a better one by them. I'd been building up a head of steam of love for their music, but my first buying power coincided with Wild Honey.
See, I think Wild Honey is by far their best album, although Darlin is the better single off it.
It was either African Waltz by Johnny Dankworth or FBI by The Shadows. The next, I'm reasonably sure, was Hey Paula, signaling a decline in my musical taste that's continued to this day.
Ossie's Dream by the Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad. I was eight.
Four years would pass before I ventured back into a record shop, and that was to buy One Vision by Queen - so I'm not sure things improved in the interim.
My first album was some Disney comp from Woolworths, but let's draw a veil over that one eh.
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