About

First Record ever bought for me:
Peter and the Wolf

First Record Ever Bought myself:
Kings of the Wild Frontier – Adam and the Ants

Top 5 records: 
Kontiki – Cotton Mather
Giant Steps – John Coltrane
Grace – Jeff Buckley
Let Go – Nada Surf
Alligator – The National

Useless fact: I once recorded an acapella version of How Deep Is Your Love with Robin Gibb

First record bought for me:
Showaddywaddy – Showaddywaddy

First record bought myself:
Adam & The Ants – Antmusic

Top 5 records:
The Clash – London Calling
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
The Smiths – Hatful Of Hollow (I know it’s a compilation…)
Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
The Mighty Wah ! – Songs Of Strength & Devotion

Useless fact: I’ve never told anyone I went to the 1998 World Cup Final and saw West Ham United’s Bernard Lama holding the World Cup…

First Record ever bought for me:
I think it was a `cylinder` of South Pacific s/ track

First Record Ever Bought myself :
Twist and Shout EP– the Beatles

Top 5 records:
Boys of Summer – Don Henley
Message in a Bottle – Police
Keep me hanging on – Vanilla Fudge
Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
What a fool Believes -Doobie Brothers

Useless fact: Michael Stipe got me so high I lost a day.

First record ever bought for me: 
Dynamite – Mud

First record ever bought myself: 
Dancing Queen – Abba

Top 5 records:
Kate Bush – The Dreaming
David Bowie – Station To Station
Abba – Arrival
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Donna Summer – Once Upon A Time

Useless fact: I think I was concerned that after a 30 year wait, I may never get to see her again – so I went to see Kate Bush’s ‘Before The Dawn’ show 7 times last year (and each one was incredible!)

First record bought for me:
Keith Harris & Orville ‘Come To My Party’ / Thomas The Tank Engine

First record bought myself:
Englandneworder – ‘World In Motion;

Top 5 records:
The Jam – Setting Sons
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
Mansun – Attack Of The Grey Lantern

Useless fact: I am in the video for Oasis ‘Lyla’, I play a chubby bloke dancing around wearing a spider-man mask

First record bought for me:
The Beatles – She Loves You (yeah, yeah, yeah I am that old!)

First record bought myself:
K-Tel’s ‘Listen To The Music’ compilation / Donny Osmond ‘Portrait Of Donny’ (simultaneous purchases with record tokens)

Top 5 records:
Boz Scaggs – ‘Silk Degrees’
10cc – ‘How Dare You’
ABC – ‘The Lexicon Of Love’
Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett – ‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’
George Michael – ‘Praying For Time’

Useless fact: A primary school teacher once told me that I “…would never make a career out of listening to Donny Osmond and all that crap”…

First record ever bought for me: 
Bagpuss the theme tune

First record ever bought myself: 
Themes of Horror

Top 5 records:
Wham! – Greatest Hits
Jimmy Somerville – Greatest Hits
Abba – Greatest Hits
Village People – Greatest Hits
Right Said Fred – Greatest Hits

Useless fact: I come from Leicester.

First record bought for me: 
‘Help’ – The Beatles

First record bought myself: 
Now That’s What I Call Music! 37

Top 5 records:
Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Otis Redding – Otis Blue
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Social Distortion – White Light White Heat White Trash
The View – Cheeky For A Reason’

Useless fact: I had a cat when I was a kid and he unfortunately had his head chopped off by the garage door… he was called ‘Lucky’

First record bought for me:
Benny Hill – Fastest Milkman in the West

First record bought myself:
The Jam – The Eton Rifles

Top 5 records:
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
UB40 – Signing Off
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life
Sly and the Family Stone – There’s A Riot Goin On

Useless fact: I’ve climbed a live volcano

First record bought for me:
Now 1992

First record bought myself:
Cast – All Change

Top 5 records:
Soundgarden – Superunknown
NOFX – Punk in Drublic
Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyse
The Prodigy – Fat of the Land
Ram Trilogy – Molten Beats

Useless fact: Alice Cooper has a golf handicap of only three. That’s good golf!

First record bought for me:
Sweet – Blockbuster

First record bought myself:
Blue Is The Colour – Chelsea FC

Top 5 records:
The Clash – The Clash
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
The Pixies – Doolittle
The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus

Useless fact: I play golf and had a “hole in one” exactly a week after my Dad had also had one on the same hole – neither of us have had one before or since!

First record bought for me:
The Animals “House Of The Rising Sun” 7”

First record bought myself:
The Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” double EP

Top 5 records:
Todd Rundgren – “A Wizard A True Star”
The Beach Boys – “Pet Sounds”
The Beatles – “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
Pink Floyd – “Meddle”
The Beach Boys – “Surf’s Up”

Useless fact: I have been acquiring records since 1964, and have never ever sold one.

First record bought for me:
Rhythm Heritage ‘Disco-Fied’ LP

First record bought myself:
Cameo ‘Word Up’ 12” Single (WHS bargain basement 99p job back in 1986)

Top 5 records:
Prince ‘Sign “O” The Times’ LP
Moodymann ‘J.A.N.’ 12”
Shuggie Otis ‘Inspiration Information’ LP
Ray Mang ‘Number One’ 12”
Ten Walls ‘Walking With Elephants’ Download

Useless fact: Here’s two …I was born black (true story… changed to white after a week. I’ll explain if you meet me) and I took Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo from The Neptunes / N*E*R*D* to a strip club in 2001. We had an awesome time ;0 )

First record bought for me:
Andy Pandy

First record bought myself:
Brother Beyond ‘Get Even’ and Paula Abdul ‘Forever Your Girl

Top 5 records:
The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
The Beatles – Revolver
Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
Jeff Buckley – Grace
New Order – Substance

Useless fact: I have seen Oasis live over 10 times, and don’t even really like them

First record bought for me:
Michael Jackson – Bad

First record bought myself:
Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I

Top 5 records:
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction
Pearl Jam – Ten
Alice in Chains – Dirt
The Cure – Staring at the Sea
Faith No More – Angel Dust

Useless fact: My previous jobs include a body piercer and a Police Officer. Random, I know.

First record bought for me:
The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land

First record bought myself:
Spice Girls: Spice

Top 5 records:
Led Zeppelin – IV
Nirvana – Bleach
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus
The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
Pixies: Come On Pilgrim

Useless fact: Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon

First record bought for me:
Green Day – Warning

First record bought for myself:
The Offspring – Conspiracy of One.

Top 5 records:
Elbow – Seldom Seen Kid
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever people say about me that’s exactly what I am not
Paul Weller – Stanley Road
Queens of the Stone age – Like Clockwork….
System of Down – Toxicity

Useless Fact: Once played at an open mic acoustic night with Noel Fielding in the audience. He gave a thumbs up of approval!

First record bought for me:
Shakin’ Stevens – This Ole House

First record bought myself:
Iron Maiden – Powerslave

Top 5 records:
AC/DC – Back in Black
The Beatles – Revolver
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

Useless fact: Once spent an afternoon hanging out with Ronnie Wood at the Snooker – he locked himself out of his corporate box and wandered into mine, which was next door

First record bought for me:
Def Leppard ‘Hysteria’

First record bought myself:
The Prodigy ‘Experience’ on cassette

Top 5  records:
The Strokes – Is This It
Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Radiohead – OK Computer
Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish

Useless fact: I’ve had lunch with Five Star and Chesney Hawkes, at their respective homes.

First record ever bought for me: 
Michael Jackson – Music & Me

First record ever bought myself: 
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – E1999/Eternal

Top 5 records:
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – E1999/Eternal
2Pac – All Eyez On Me
Eminem – The Marshal Mathers LP
Michael Jackson – Bad
DMX – It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot

Useless fact: I was in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and used that as an excuse to barge passed security and drunkenly try to bond with a suitably unimpressed Jay Electronica.

First record bought for me:
Queen – Radio Ga Ga

First bought myself:
Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman

Top 5 records: 
Origin Unknown – Origin Unknown present The Speed of Sound
High Contrast – True Colours
Adam F – Colours
Commix – Call To Mind
MJ Cole – Sincere

Useless fact:
Went to the same school as educational luminary ‘Joey Essex’