It was in the early sixties: Bach violin concertos a minor, E major and for two violins in d minor, played by Arthur Grumiaux. More or less at the same time PLAY BACH by Jacques Loussier and The Modern Jazz Quartett: Place Vendome. I like to listen to these records again and again.
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These were the first two, bought late 1978 and spring 1979.
… and this was the first vinyl (around 1980, did not have even a TT at the time yet)
Concerning CDs I have no recollection which was the first one. However, it must have been 1997 when I purchased my first CD player.
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I was sent to boarding school and at Christmas 1969 was given one of these portable record players!
my first lp wasn’t that adventurous but was what I was listening to. And I still have the record! But the record player has been gone for many years now.
My first CD was a measure of where my tastes had grown in twenty odd years! I still listen the S&G but also listened to this. The joy of CDs was that on classical pieces, it didn’t cut a track in half…Beethoven’s 9th with the last movement broken into two sides on several records I have, and also true of opera!
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Mum bought me this for my Birthday in 1975. It wasn’t the Sweet album I had asked for, but she only paid 25p for it. I don’t know why two bands shared an album between them.
A few months later and I had saved enough to buy this one (I never told Mum)…
It still gets an occasional spin even now.
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Rickie Lee Jones debut album on vinyl. Nimbus cut bought mail order from Practical HiFi. I still have it.
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IIRC my first single was the Beatles’ Get Back. I didn’t buy many singles, though, mostly LPs. Indeed I think that by late 60s the discerning music buyer did that, at least those in my school - singles were for the pop brigade (though of course there were exceptions).
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While not the first album I bought, the first albums bought for me were Return of the Jedi soundtrack and Muppets Take Manhatten soundtrack. I was about 5.
On vinyl for my Fisher Price record player. I still have the records.
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Whilst I had several Beatles and Beatles related albums, purchased by my parents, my first purchase lead me down a different road. Obviously the influence of hearing different sounds at school
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus.
My first cd purchase occurred minutes after I acquired my first cd player in November '85, plucked from the thirty or so cd’s on sale at the local WH Smiths !
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required.
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First LP was Relics by Pink Floyd, first CD was Wonderful Life by Black.
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I recommend this site devoted to Alvin Lee and Ten Years After (all text in English) www.alvinlee.de
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Surely the “T” is the wrong way round.
You must have failed physics. It’s well known that the space-time curvature can cause letters to be flipped upside-down under extreme gravity.
Of course! Silly me.
I hitch hiked into Norwich to buy Disraeli Gears after hearing it at school. When I got to Andy’s Records (I think) they had sold out and it was suggested to me that I buy Best of Cream instead which I did. Never regretted it. I still have the LP although I have nothing to play it on. About two years ago at a Record Fair I saw a CD of Disraeli Gears which I duly purchased.
Steve
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Not purchased personally but given to me by my brother for my 13th birthday, I was a huge fan, still have the copy in VG condition. I also saw him live at Kingston Granada in 1962, here’s the programme:
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Not only my first CD but the reason I bought my first CD player to play it on. I was still fighting the inevitable until its release.
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Took me years to discover that album but what a wonderful record it is. One of the few albums I consider to be perfect.