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

[Martin.A]

I was a Kinks fan but couldn't afford any of their albums until I started work in 1967. Kinda Kinks was the first album I ever bought.

Incidentally the second album I bought was Bee Gees 1st, when they were a typical pop group of that era with 5 members - Colin Petersen on drums and Vince Melouney on guitar.

 

[C&E Guy]

My first ever albums were the Mary Poppins soundtrack and some classical ones.

The first proper British one was A New World Record by ELO.

 

[CliffH]

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.

I've found a photo of it: quite a mixed bag!

 

[Vonny]

Ziggy Stardust. Played on a brand spanking new record player as below! I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

 

[Satan’s little helper]

Ziggy Stardust. Played on a brand spanking new record player as below! I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
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Looks a bit like the one I had as a kid? My sister used to defile it by playing Cindy doll records. It was like listening to a Beatles rip off singing a jingle from a toy advert? Lol, just found it. Haven’t heard this in 47 years?

 

[Chris Hobson]

"The words to the tune “flowers in the rain” pretty much summed up how I felt waking for school with a hypo."

In an interview Roy Wood said that he didn't do psychedelic drugs and the lyrics to his psychedelic songs were just made up from his imagination. Cherry Blossom Clinic is a really good one if you haven't heard it.

I feel the need to do a shout out for Be-Bop-Deluxe, possibly the most brilliant and underrated rock band ever. I bought Sunburst Finish and loved it so much that I bought all of their other albums as well.

 

[Satan’s little helper]

"The words to the tune “flowers in the rain” pretty much summed up how I felt waking for school with a hypo."

In an interview Roy Wood said that he didn't do psychedelic drugs and the lyrics to his psychedelic songs were just made up from his imagination. Cherry Blossom Clinic is a really good one if you haven't heard it.

I feel the need to do a shout out for Be-Bop-Deluxe, possibly the most brilliant and underrated rock band ever. I bought Sunburst Finish and loved it so much that I bought all of their other albums as well.

When I listen to their stuff now, on modern equipment. It sounds like the speakers are out of “phase?” There is some remastered stuff out there. But I fear it diminishes the spirit of the time? I remember getting a Beatles tape (early stuff. “Paper back writer?”) & the vocals were in one channel the music was in the other? I swear blind I could disconnect the right? Speaker & drop the vocals. But then I compared a CD of “Bat out of hell” to the vinyl on the late 1980s on an “audiophile’s set up & thought the CD had a narrow band with no “bottom end?” Experience installing car stereo systems since I first got a car. Lol, my first & second vehicle had a mono system.

 

[harbottle]

"The words to the tune “flowers in the rain” pretty much summed up how I felt waking for school with a hypo."

In an interview Roy Wood said that he didn't do psychedelic drugs and the lyrics to his psychedelic songs were just made up from his imagination. Cherry Blossom Clinic is a really good one if you haven't heard it.

I feel the need to do a shout out for Be-Bop-Deluxe, possibly the most brilliant and underrated rock band ever. I bought Sunburst Finish and loved it so much that I bought all of their other albums as well.

Be Bop, and Bill Nelson, were amazing.

Nelson is diabetic these days.

 

[Vonny]

Be Bop, and Bill Nelson, were amazing.

Nelson is diabetic these days.

Yes, sadly his diabetes was diagnosed too late for him to make any significant changes to reduce damage, and he has complications. Still a phenomenal composer and guitarist though, as well as being a thoroughly lovely person.

 

[C&E Guy]

My first ever albums were the Mary Poppins soundtrack and some classical ones.

The first proper British one was A New World Record by ELO.

Oops. Just remembered I had Slayed by Slade before that.
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[CliffH]

Oops. Just remembered I had Slayed by Slade before that.
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I was just a bit too young to buy that album when it first came out. I only became interested in music at the beginning of 1973: just in time for 'Cum on Feel the Noize'! The first Slade record that I bought was the 'How Does it Feel' single: I agree with Noel Gallagher that that was Slade's best ever song. I went to see 'Flame' at the cinema: I liked it, even though its downbeat air puzzled and disappointed most Slade fans at the time.

I spent many years living in Wolverhampton but never saw any members of Slade, although Dave Hill was revered by a local special school because he went in regularly to provide voluntary music lessons.

 

[Martin.A]

Further to my 24th October post about the second album I bought being Bee Gees 1st, when they were a typical pop group of that era with 5 members - Colin Petersen on drums and Vince Melouney on guitar - it's just been reported that Colin Peterson died a couple of days ago.