Can you remember what was the first record/CD that you ever bought and why?

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I certainly can!! It was December 1962, the occasion was my first year Christmas dance at grammar school. The dancing was ballroom - the boys school and girls school practised together for weeks before, of course we all hated this dancing - this was the sixties and we had different ideas to music. In the interval pupils were allowed to play their own records on a record player on the stage. My friend, who had relatives in Germany, had a copy of a record by a new band that she had heard of through her German relatives - this group were called The Beatles, the record was called Love Me Do. The minute I heard it I knew that I was in love with a type of music and a band I'd never heard before. That weekend, with my hard earned money from my Saturday job on the local market, I marched into 'The Music Box' - our local record shop and bought a copy of the record. I was so pleased - that was until I got home, and realised I didn't own a record player!! There was a happy ending though, I was given my cousin's old Dansette record player! Happy days!!!