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What was the first album from a British band did you buy?

stephenS50

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Hello my dear friends..

Today it's national album day and this year they're celebrating great British bands...so in celebration of this the question I asking today is...What was the first album from a British band do you buy?...for me that's an easy one...it was on my 10th birthday in 1984 and it one of two albums I bought that day. It was "Abbey Road "by The Beatles..for the simple reason it's my favourite Beatles album and it's some of the greatest songs they ever recorded on it(The second album I bought that day was "Legend" by Bob Marley and the Wailers...and the shop I've got them at was Ashley's in Market Place Wallingford in Oxfordshire..And I only had to pay four pounds each for both of them.I got £20 pounds birthday money that Saturday. I spent the rest on crisps,sweets and drinks...A precursor to becoming a T1D in later life?...maybe)


Well that's my first album from a British band...but what was yours?
 
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Squeeze 45s and under and Bob marleys legend I have both to this day on vinyl and cd
 
Wow..Squeeze "45s and under"...that's a great album @gail2 ..and like me you also bought "Legend" by Bob Marley and the Wailers...I have that album on all three original formats Vinyl, Cassette and CD...
 
I'm going to bring the tone down. My first album was Bridge over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkel. I had a Saturday job in Smiths in Portsmouth and got discount. The second one was Mythical King's and Iguanas by Dory Previn. I did have siblings who had Beatles, Bowie and Deep Purple etc.
 
stephenS50 said:
Hello my dear friends..

Today it's national album day and this year they're celebrating great British bands...so in celebration of this the question I asking today is...What was the first album from a British band do you buy?...for me that's an easy one...it was on my 10th birthday in 1984 and it one of two albums I bought that day. It was "Abbey Road "by The Beatles..for the simple reason it's my favourite Beatles album and it's some of the greatest songs they ever recorded on it(The second album I bought that day was "Legend" by Bob Marley and the Wailers...and the shop I've got them at was Ashley's in Market Place Wallingford in Oxfordshire..And I only had to pay four pounds each for both of them.I got £20 pounds birthday money that Saturday. I spent the rest on crisps,sweets and drinks)

Well that's my first album from a British band...but what was yours?
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'A Hard Day's Night' - second-hand, by mail order. It would have been about 1975, not long after my parents first bought a record player. I don't know why that album in particular: I was already a big Beatles fan, although I wasn't aware of all of their albums - and their reputation was probably at about its lowest in the mid-70s. I was very young at the time, so perhaps it's just as well that I didn't choose The White Album: I'm not sure I would have been ready for 'Why Don't We Do It In the Road?".
 
stephenS50 said:
Wow..Squeeze "45s and under"...that's a great album @gail2 ..and like me you also bought "Legend" by Bob Marley and the Wailers...I have that album on all three original formats Vinyl, Cassette and CD...
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wow cassettes thats going back
 
CliffH said:
... and they always 'unravelled' after a while 🙄
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Yes they did...and you would then have to be careful when you rewind them back with a pencil...Ah those were the days weren't they?
 
I still have the mix tape my first boyfriend made for me on cassette it lasted longer than he did:rofl::rofl:
 
First album was absolute classic, Bat out of Hell by the mighty Meatloaf & Jim Steinman, seen Meatloaf 5 years later in concert, incredible performance it was.

First Brit album was Dire Straits by Dire Straights, bought it after having heard Sultans of Swing on radio & was big fan of band & Knopfler thereafter, outstanding guitarist & songwriter Mark is.
 
nonethewiser said:
First album was absolute classic, Bat out of Hell by the mighty Meatloaf & Jim Steinman, seen Meatloaf 5 years later in concert, incredible performance it was.

First Brit album was Dire Straits by Dire Straights, bought it after having heard Sultans of Swing on radio & was big fan of band & Knopfler thereafter, outstanding guitarist & songwriter.
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Meatloaf now theres a band thats ment to be played as loud as u can
 
gail2 said:
Squeeze 45s and under and Bob marleys legend I have both to this day on vinyl and cd
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Whenever I hear Squeeze it reminds me of being a student in SE London in the early 80s, when Jools Holland would sometimes turn up at one of the pubs in Greenwich. I felt cheated when I first bought '45s and Under' on CD: the version that I bought only had the 'US' version of 'Goodbye Girl' :(.
 
OMG this tread is bring back some good memorys nice one
 
nonethewiser said:
First album was absolute classic, Bat out of Hell by the mighty Meatloaf & Jim Steinman, seen Meatloaf 5 years later in concert, incredible performance it was.

First Brit album was Dire Straits by Dire Straights, bought it after having heard Sultans of Swing on radio & was big fan of band & Knopfler thereafter, outstanding guitarist & songwriter Mark is.
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When I moved to Oxford in 1986, Dire Straits' first album (together with their second album - and Squeeze's '45s and Under') was what I played whenever I felt homesick for SE London 🙂.
 
CliffH said:
When I moved to Oxford in 1986, Dire Straits' first album (together with their second album - and Squeeze's '45s and Under') was what I played whenever I felt homesick for SE London 🙂.
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Mark's track Going Home would have been adapt.
 
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