Where did you buy your first record?

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Peter Fairless… The Disc Jockey

Lucy Pappas… The Disc Jockey! Words by the Bee Gees

Jim Breeds… The Record Shop. She Loves You. But anyone who listened to Alan’s radio show last week would already know that!

Mick O’Dowd… The Record Shop. Cathy’s Clown by Everlys.

James Johnson… The record shop Bowie ‘Breaking Glass’ – Chuck Berry ‘South of the Border’

Nanna Patt… Sounds To Go Holloway Road Islington

Judith Monk… The record shop – John Ogden and Vladimir Askenazy …not very rock n roll…

Pete Prescott… From the record shop In Sittingbourne high street. Sadly now gone.

Judy Struys… The shop in London Road. I’ve forgotten the name 1972.. It was my first ever pay packet. Deep Purple in Rock. I used to play Child in Time at full volume on the stereogram. My mother said desparingly “hasn’t that woman had her baby yet?”

Jim Breeds… My Dad’s stock comment for most of what I played on our stereogram (including DP In Rock) was “What the bloody hell is that racket supposed to be!?”.

Catherine Ireland… Jennery’s or Jenner’s in Devonshire rd Bexhill. Do the Huckle buck, I think

Arthur Sutherland…  I’m sure we have been here before, but I didn’t buy my first record, my late father did. He bought three for a pound which were The Beatles, I Feel Fine, Slim Whitman, Anniversary waltz, and Richard Tauber, Oh Vienna Mine. He gave them to me along with a record player he built and he got them and all the parts except the casing fro, it was almost next doorm a little corner shop which did electronics repairs called Methvens radio, on Raeburn Place in Edinburgh, it was almost next door.

Leigh Wieland-Boys… I saved up my pocket money & bought two on the same day – from the Merlin Library, Hamrun in Malta where I was living in the 60s!

Dennis Torrance… Stylus bottom of stonestreet first Lp beach boys then got into led zep deep purple and various rock albums

Martin Hurren… Regis Record Center, Holderness Road Hull.

Terry Huggins… The Disk Jockey in Queen’s Road.

Ian Mantell… Stylus, Castle Street, but soon converted to Disc Jockey and then Mason’s Music

Angela Frances Gardner… The Disc Jockey in Queens Rd, Hastings !

Sid Saunders… Woolworth on the Embasy label, Cover version of Johnny Ray singing in the rain.

Nicola Dobson… Me too

Alan Wood… Had to order my first record in newsagent in Robertsbridge, Sherry-4 seasons ,

Peter J Brazier… Woolworths!

Jeff Belton…  Woolworths in Eltham SE9.

Alan Esdaile… From Jack London at The Record Shop, Bee Gees first album and then got some ex jukebox records from The Lido.

Janine Anne Scott… Disc Jockey

Julie Morris… Boots in Robertson Street (upstairs!). Blackfoot Sue – Standing in the Road

Graham Belchamber… Bottom of Western Road in Bexhill, shop next to Library sold books and records

Alan Pepper… The Disc Jockey 1970 Motown Chartbusters Vol 3 ! First single Long shot kick de bucket by The Pioneers . Funny how we can’t forget these trivial things .

Nick Prince… The Disc Jockey in Hastings. However, The Record Shop was also a firm favourite for more specialised stuff with me for over thirty years. Jack and Sonia stocked the top forty chart singles right up into the mid 1980’s.

Val Neeson… A1 stores walworth rd

Jules Stretton… The record shop iIthink ( on the corner of top end in queens rd)
It was hot rod !! Baby Jane xx

Ernest Ballard… The Left Bank. Sidwell st Exeter Devon. Loved the listening booths in the shop and headphones. Great experience

Jacquie Hinves… Victor Values just off the Queens Road! It went on to be one of the first Tesco’s stores. Wellington Square. Rolling Stones record circa 67!

Maggie Geary… Berwick street market Oxford circus in london – also deep purple!!! First single – killing me softly

Mike Wright… Wheatlands Furniture Shop Harrow Road W9…..a heap of Top Rank discs

Frank Van Keulen… my first record? i’ll never forget, it was in the early 70’s, it was a copy of a Black Sabbath album who was just released, and the name of the record shop was “de platenkampioen” op de loosduinseweg in The Hague

Martin Curcher… My parents bought me after I had obviously asked them: Rolf Harris – Tutankhamun from Disc Jockey

Shane Wright… Stylus The bump by kenny..lol

Amanda Brooks… Woolworths in St Albans.

Barry Upton… The record shop son of my father chicory tip

Chris Meachen… The disc jockey, & the record was ‘she loves you’

Dawn Baker… Two little boys was my first record i owned but two tribes frankie goes Hollywood i bought myself from debenhams

Tony Davis… I can certainly remember buying Joe Browns Live album from Jack when he was in Queens Road and that was only a little later than my first single

Nick Prince… I am sure they told me the first Queens Road shop was four of five doors up from the one on the corner of Stone Street. I do have photo’s of the Norman Road one, it started off at wherever it was that Jack worked as a teenager as a box of 78’s by the till. This box of 78’s became two boxes and then three boxes etc etc and then a section of the shop, until it took over and effectively became the first Record Shop…. for a short while, until he and Sonia moved to the first Queens Road premises. I do have copies of photos of the Norman Road Shop with dates on the back which Jack kindly did for me. They were a very modest couple and could not understand that they would be a part of local history and talked about for decades and decades and decades to come. I recall that unique Jack London laugh when he handed them to me. My entire archive will be left to the museum and library but I will definitely try and get something together for the 75th anniversary of the Norman Road Record Shop, which isn’t actually that far away. We all know that The Record Shop was called the Record Shop because it was THE Record Shop. There was none other in the borough. It was the first and only one for many many years.

Alan Esdaile… Look forward to seeing them posted on the site Nick.

Ralph Town… Nottingham Victoria Market.S/H copy of Metal Guru

Stuart Moir… Ealing west London

Liz Dees Dianto… I bought mine furher up Queens road, Hastings. The record shop !