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

The first record I bought was a 78 of Jailhouse Rock by Elvis. I don't think LPs came out for ages after that.
 
PattiEvans said:
The first record I bought was a 78 of Jailhouse Rock by Elvis. I don't think LPs came out for ages after that.
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The King my mums favorite. I still cry with memory's of her when i hear wooden heart
 
saffron15 said:
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.
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Well many millions of people (including me) have bought S&G albums - even though they're deemed unhip nowadays lol.
 
saffron15 said:
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.
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I got "Bridge over troubled water" by Simon and Garfunkel for my 11th birthday..it was one of two albums I got that day (the other one being the original motion picture soundtrack for the film "The harder they come")...these are albums I've had in both vinyl and CD.
 
My first album was Wizzard Brew by Wizzard. It was a sort of jazz rock fusion that was very different from their upbeat pop songs. I tried very hard to like it but really didn't. I remember buying Queen's Night At The Opera when Bohemian Rhapsody came out and their three earlier albums soon after.
 
I can't remember which LP I bought first, but I can tell you I have this picture disc up in my attic ... it cost a whopping £6
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Hard Day's Night Beatles, I think, though it may have been Please Please Me but I don't remember that cover, then Sgt Pepper.
 
s'nic said:
I can't remember which LP I bought first, but I can tell you I have this picture disc up in my attic ... it cost a whopping £6
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I remember picture disks - and coloured vinyl. Elvis' 'Moody Blue' album vinyl was a nice bright blue, somewhat offsetting the sombre contents :(.
 
The first album I bought, and this was on reel to reel tape, was, I'm afraid, Summer Holiday by Cliff and the Shads. Cassettes were at least 15 years away. I did follow it up with A Hard Day's Night, I've still got both of them. The first vinyl album I bought was the Beatles Oldies. I improved after that.
 
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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...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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Jethro Tull - Original Masters (Around 1988)

Followed by hoovering all their albums and seeing them in concert many, many times.
 
I don't remember the name of the album but I remember the "band". It was The Wombles.
They may have been children's tv characters but their songs were written by Mike Batt who also wrote Bright Eyes
 
Mike Batt also produced Little Does She Know by The Kursall Flyers. A strange combination of epic big scale production and slightly silly and comical lyrics.
 
helli said:
I don't remember the name of the album but I remember the "band". It was The Wombles.
They may have been children's tv characters but their songs were written by Mike Batt who also wrote Bright Eyes
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'Wombling Merry Christmas' is of course the best ever Christmas song :party:. I notice that Heart Xmas has started on the radio - well it is late October.
 
First by a British band is tricky. I had a few things on vinyl as a smaller child (mostly bought for me as gifts) including an obscure Elvis album.

If I remember rightly, my first own purchase of a British band would have been a tape from WH Smith. I think it was Motorhead’s live “No sleep til Hammersmith”
 
I realised I ignored " British Band" in fact pre Simon and Garfunkel I bought a compilation album from Timothy Whites. I've still got it. It was 69 or 70. Sadly it includes a song from Rolf Harris but I liked Wings from the Hollies, Bend It from Dave Dee, Dozy etc The BeeGees and the first release of the Beatles "Across the Universe" It was a charity record for the WWF
It was probably one of the first.
 
Probably the first was by the Move at a jumble sale? When I was 10 or 12. The words to the tune “flowers in the rain” pretty much summed up how I felt waking for school with a hypo.
 
helli said:
I don't remember the name of the album but I remember the "band". It was The Wombles.
They may have been children's tv characters but their songs were written by Mike Batt who also wrote Bright Eyes
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I believe some of the people dressed up as Wombles were from the folk-rock group Steeleye Span (Who Mike Batt produced!)
 
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