10cc at Hammersmith Odeon, London, 17th March 1983.

First album that was bought for me - probably the 'Grease' soundtrack.

First album that I bought - probably 'Tonic For The Troops' by The Boomtown Rats.

Gillan supported by the Edgar Broughton Band, Birmingham Odeon Feb 1980.

First album I paid for with my own cash was, I think, A Day At The Races by Queen.

Or it might have been something by The Wombles. Hard to tell the difference between Orinoco and Brian May.

...either Dr Hook or The Spinners(yellow smock version)

First album: Madness - One Step Beyond. It was a cassette and it had "Stiff" on the label, which I took to be a condition of the tape.Luckily it seemed to play OK when I got it home...

I think was called 'Ronco Super Hits' I remember wanting it because it had Kiki Dee singing 'Star' on it......I knom, I know. Still love the song tho. First gig was Bowie, Slane Castle 1987. Yeah yeah Glass Spider was poo...well, not for me, all I cared about was that I was breathing the same air as david Bloody Bowie!

First gig: Van Morrison, Portsmouth Guildhall, 1978 Wavelength tour
First album: St Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (bought around 1977 on my brother's recommendation. Struggled to like it but never really did.)

12 years old.Ultravox Systems of Romance.

1st Gig 14 years old.Edinburgh Playhouse.Ultravox again.

Stranglers, Victoria Hall, Hanley 1977. I was a very late developer on the live scene.

First album? I probably bought or had bought for me one of those awful Top of the Pops covers albums. First proper album was Gary Glitter by, erm, Gary Glitter. Would be around 1972? I remember selling my stamp album and investing it wisely, or so I thought at the time.

First gig; Light of the World at Southampton Gaumont in 1981. The highlight was Beggar & Co. doing their 'hit' of the time 'Somebody help me out'

Influenced by NME I had decided I was a bit of a soulboy at the time...

First album; far more to type (if you exclude Trumpton and the James Bond 10th Anniversary Album) was Dark Side of the Moon

First gig : Van Morrison, Belfast (supported by Mike Oldfield, Lindisfarne & The Chieftans). This was 1980 - I was a slow starter gig-wise but to be fair political circumstances were against me.

First Album: bought for me was one of those K-Tel Rock'n'Roll compilations with Bill Haley and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates (years later dispatched in the back garden with an air pistol). First one I bought was a cassette of the Sweet's Greatest Hits, and first vinyl was the HJH's 'A Collection of Oldies'.

1985 - Bryan Adams: Reckless

First gig
1989 - Spacemen 3 supported by Eat at the Town and Country Club.

Kraftwerk, Birmingham Town Hall, sept 1975

First album Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Madness, Manchester Apollo, October 1980

First album, I think, was the Breaking Glass soundtrack on cassette (shonky soundtracks becoming a theme through my album-buying life)

First album bought for me: Help!

First album I bought: Black Sabbath: Master of Reality.

First gig: Black Sabbath, Manchester Free Trade Hall, Feb.'72.

First album (bought for me by my parents - they "approved of it") - Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant"

First concert - Led Zep, Auckland NZ January 1972

First Album: ELO's Greatest Hits. Still brilliant.

First Gig: Elton John, Kings Hall, Belfast 1987. Great gig. I seem to remember he came on and shouted "Hello Dublin". Nice one, given the political situation at the time! Wasn't he rather chemically enhanced in those days?

First Gig- The Bootleg HJH's. Eight years ago.

First album- Travis- The Man Who. Ten years ago.

First gig - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, The Overlanders and others on a package tour at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, just after the Overlanders had a hit with Michelle. Early 1966. I was 9. My Dad took me. It wasn't The Beatles, but it was something.

First album - Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. A wonderful record that I still own and adore today. It's currently in one of those album display frames on the dining room wall. 1971.

but this seemed a nice introduction

First gig - Graham Parker and the Rumour supported by The Sports at Canberra Theatre 1978

First album - Skyhooks Living in the '70's

First gig - Paul Young - Hammersmith Odeon December 23 1983
First LP - Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier - March 1981
First record bought for me - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Xmas 1975 (in picture sleeve!!)

1st album bought for me - "20 Fantastic Hits By The Original Artists, Volume 2" on Arcade, probably Christmas 1972. I've replicated the glam-tastic tracklisting on Spotify here - http://open.spotify.com/user/adie0000/playlist/4DcniwxsQOc5qEuHWTF3bO

1st album I bought for myself - The Sweet's "Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be" in early 1973, followed a few weeks later by Slade's "Slayed?"

1st gig - should have been Adam & the Ants at West Runton Pavilion in Summer 1980, but the date was cancelled and I couldn't make the rescheduled one... actually ended up being BowWowWow (do you see a pattern emerging?) at the same venue in December that year. I was right at the front, and Annabella was truly the most beautiful girl I'd ever been that close to... sigh.

The first album I saved my pocket money for, and bought on my own, was Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, in 1975. I would have been 11 at the time, and as I left, I overheard the shop assistants expressing astonishment that a kid could be into something so “weird”. Now Kraftwerk are revered as the HJHs of dance music. I didn’t realise how cool I was at the time….but neither did any of my friends.

The first gig was slightly less cool – Tangerine Dream at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1977. I was in the second or third row from the front, and thought it was amazing, although I must admit I have been to better concerts since.

Gig: The Alarm, Rock City '86
Album: Thriller on cassette a few years earlier

First gig I can remember would be the Kinks in red hunting jackets at Nuneaton Co-op Hall in 1965 at the time of 'Tired Of Waiting For You'. Might have been earlier gigs with no-name local bands leading up to it.

First album with my own money would be 'Aftermath' by the Stones in 1966 - took a lot of saving to buy an LP!

was The Human League at Hanley Victoria Hall in 1980.

First LP I bought with my money was, i believe Queen, A Night at the Opera.

Elton John - "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player" (still have it, with my name and address neatly written on the paper inner sleeve)

Gig was Yes at Newcastle City Hall. It was the Relayer Tour and we were driven there by my mates Dad in a minibus (aged 14 if I recall correctly - us, minibus of indeterminate age)

... but first gig was Metallica, Edinburgh Playhouse ...And Justice For All Tour, 1988. They were brilliant. Danzig supported. they were crap.

As if in stunning contrast, first album was Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome To The Pleasuredome. I can't begin to describe the stunned silence in the living room which greeted Ballad of 32 on its first play. I was nine, my sister was seven and my mum and dad were not best impressed...

First Gig: Dire Straits at Newcastle City Hall on the Making Movies tour in 1980. During the 17 minutes Straits were cool. Astonishingly loud drums.

First LP bought for me: 'Blue For You' by Status Quo (£3.50p from Presto in Cramlington. My Dad was outraged)

First LP bought with own money: It may possibly have been 'In Your Mind' by Bryan Ferry. I don't really know why.

First Gig - Iron Maiden Barrowlands Nov 5th 1995

First album i bought myself - Use your Illusion I (Day of release in the UK was close to my 12th birthday and last day of primary school just started playing guitar that year)

First Gig: - Horslips Whitla Hall Belfast 1975

First album bought for me: - Hot August Night by Neil Diamond. Bought as a present for passing my eleven plus. Rather embarrassing to own up to this for many years but listened to it again around the time he appeared at Glastonbury and felt it held up rather well.

First album bought by me; Led Zeppelin 3. Went to the Gramaphone Shop with the purpose of buying IV. they didn't have it, the money was burning a hole in my pocket so came home with 111. Still my favourite Zeppelin album.

First album I bought - Michael Jackson, Bad
First gig - Oasis, Glasgow SECC...can't remember the year

Not much opportunity to get to gigs hence the gap in time

First Album with my money.
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure - Still a desert island disc for me after all these years.

First Album with Mum & Dad's money.
K-Tel - Club Ska '69 - My Brother took to it with a crochet needle when he was about 1 year old so it went in the bin. Wish I could have kept it.

First Gig.
Gentle Giant - Chatham Central Hall 1973 or '74.
Remember being pinned to my seat by the sheer force of the volume.

First gig - Wishbone Ash, Barclay James Harvest and Cochise, at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1971.

First album with own money - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, in 1970. It cost 42/6d. Second album I think was Led Zeppelin III, at 47/6d.

First LP was T. Rex's Electric Warrior purchased from The Spinning Disc on Chiswick High Road sometime in 1971.

First gig was David Bowie at the Hammersmith Odeon on July 3rd, 1973. I went to secondary school on King Street and we had to go to Wormwood Scrubs (behind the prison, not the prison itself!) on Thursday afternoons for 'games.' The bus would past the Odeon and I still remember seeing the marquee announcing the Dame's shows. Tickets were (I think) 80p each.

First album was Bolan Boogie, a T.Rex compilation containing the early hits and some Tyrannosaurus Rex stuff closely followed by Slade Alive which speaks for itself.
First gig, rather surprisingly given my Glam tendencies, was Back Door at the Hemel Hempstead Pavillion. They were a three piece doing a kind of jazz rock thing. Their USP was that they had no guitarist but instead had a bass player called Colin Hodgkinson, I think who played in a flowing, lead guitar-like style. I remember being impressed but not enthused. I certainly didn't add any Back Door to my nascent record collection.

Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits 1970/71
First gig was either Pink Floyd at the Empire Pool, Wembley, 17/11/1974 or Wally, Hastings Pier, promoted by Bob Harris - whatever happened to him?
I was in row 1, dead centre for Floyd; I thought that this ticket-buying thing was a doddle: just send off, get the best seats in the house - easy. It's been genrally downhill from there, but I persevere.

First Album - Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next. I had seen them on the Old Grey Whistle Test and been knocked out by them. I was delighted many years on to work with the BBC sound guys who had recorded that show : they told me Alex Harvey had turned his nose up at their microphones, and hollered "Roadie! Bring me the rock & roll mike", which was the first time anyone in Queen Margaret Drive had seen a Shure SM57.

First Gig - Aerosmith, Glasgow Apollo, October 76. Joe Perry used a ludicrous number of gorgeous vintage guitars.

SAHB supporting Mott the Hoople at the Green's Playhouse Glasgow, it later morphed into the 'famous' Apollo

some soundtrack album on Polydor that had Thus Spake from 2001, Elvira Madigan (?), Rosemary's Baby and other hits

was the first album (although i only got that cos my mate had already bought technotronic).
First gig was Inspiral Carpets at the SECC in 1991. Sitting down at the back of a half empty metal shed. Not the best introduction to live music...

Gary Glitter at the Glasgow Apollo November 1973.

First album: Pinups by David Bowie.

First gig was Mott (not the Hoople) at St George's Hall, Bradford, 1975 I think.
First album bought was, I'm pretty sure, Kimono My House by Sparks.

Rock gig (taken by my dad) - Dylan at Earls Court 1981
(paid for with my own cash) - John Martyn, Hammersmith O, 1981

First album bought by me - Armed Forces - Costello 1979

Family, supported by Chicken Shack in the Usher Hall, Embra (1970?)
Sadly, all been downhill from then, with the possible exception of Nazareth secondondabill to Mott The Hoople.
First album was Ahead Rings Out by Blodwyn Pig.. still got it!

First album bought by myself - Buddy Holly 'That'll Be The Day i was 10 or 11 and thought that I was buying the soundtrack to the film that was being advertised on TV at the time - got a better deal on that one

First gig - Rick Wakeman at Liverpool Empire, 1975 - didn't push me down a prog path but loved it at the time

First LP was Traffic's Mr. Fantasy in 1967. I was still 12 and it still sounds good.

First concert was a year or two later, hitchhiked down to Dublin for Jethro Tull at the (probably defunkt) National Stadium, which wasn't a stadium as such but a boxing venue.

Great days.

1st proper gig - Jethro Tull - City hall Cork 1969

1st album I bought with earned money - Jethro Tull - Benefit - I think 1970

1st album bought for me - Stones - Big Hits, High Tide and Green Grass.

It has never been re-released with the original UK track list.

deep purple post in rock pre machine head
supported by manfred mann and free with alright now a current hit - 3 bucks - them were the days

first local Chain - quite good Chicago blues soundalike

first album - beatles compilation

First Album bought for me (besides The Flintstones and Huckleberry Hound - which I wish I could locate) : Please Please Me.

First album bought with my own money : (3 actually - must have been with birthday money) Abbey Road, Stand Up - Jethro Tull and the Island sampler Nice Enough To Eat.

First gig: Derek & The Dominoes at the Liverpool Philharmonic, which a little detective work tells me was on September 24th 1970. During the encore Eric's ciggy fell out of the nut of his Strat and was passed around the faithful clustered "down the front". I was about to demur because I didn't smoke (then) till my friend pointed out "It's got Eric's slobber on it!"

First album with own pocket-money: Everyone Plays Darts.

First gig: June 1978, Southampton Gaumont, Darts. Supported by The Late Show. I was eleven so my dad took me.

First gig on my own with mates: about 1981.. The Enid, supported by IQ (Elaine who sat next to in maths's brother Martin played keyboards for IQ so we all went) Soton Guildhall.

First proper exciting gig with mates: Iron Maiden, Soton Gaumont. Probably 1983.

Good times. So many bands to see. Much fun had.

... Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Tour - Brisbane Festival Hall 1977

First album paid for with my own pocket money - Genesis - 'Selling England By The Pound' - 1975

(I'm also an Ozzie and a Rockwiz fan. Always good, sometimes wonderful.)

Having spent most of my youth in South Africa, my first gig was Johannesburg's first Blues concert, about 1971. Nobody you've ever heard of, including a young white blues band who called themselves Blind Lemon Jefferson. (Originality was not a strong suit.)

My daughter (who's also a Rockwiz fan) always wins "first gig" conversations. It was Bruce Springsteen (at Sheffield, 1988), just before we knew my wife was pregnant. In later years she's enjoyed coming to Springsteen gigs with us in both the UK and Australia.

First album was the Fabs "Rubber Soul" bought in Germany on the Odeon label circa '68.
First gig was Santana at the Hammersmith Odeon about 1974 - support was Earth,Wind & Fire before they were well known.
Always remember they had a revolving drummer,which was pretty unusual.

story to tell.
My first gig was in the mid-70's when I went on an excursion to a neightboring school and saw Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons. They were mighty good but my strongest memory of it now is that one of the older kids said, "Last year was better, we saw AC/DC."

Rockwiz is a fantastic show, I especially like the duets that close the show such as this one.

First Album,The White Stripes, White Blood Cells.

First Gig, Bright Eyes in Wolverhampton.

First Single, Three Lions by the Lightening seeds.

Still enjoy all of them.

Deep Purple - 24 Carat Purple. A reduced price compilation with a lot of good stuff on it, including standouts from Made in Japan. About £3 I think.

First gig - Hawkwind (as the Hawklords) - Edinburgh Usher Hall, about 1979. A friend had a spare ticket, so I went along. Don't remember much apart from the treatment meted out to the (slightly incongruous) support act, 'Punk Poet' Patrik Fitzgerald. First gig of my own choice was, I think, UFO at the Odeon shortly thereafter.

First LP. Was either Remember Me This Way - Gary Glitter or Now and Then by The Carpenters. Both were bought on the same holiday in Germany and can't quite remember the order.One of the tracks on Now and Then jumped and when I hear the track on CD now I still expect the jump.

First Gig, John Miles Hull City Hall c1975 supported by Johnny Cougar (Mellencamp).

First album was either Simon and Garfunkels Bridge over troubled water or a Steppenwolf album. Not sure which album but it had Born to be wild, Magic Carpet ride and Sookie Sookie on it so it may have been a compilation. I bought them both in the same week in about 1970 which I guess was pretty extravagant at that time.

First gig was Deep Purple at Birmingham Town Hall - extremely loud but the strobes and Ritchie Blackmores guitar smashing antics have stayed with me ever since. I guess this must also have been around 1970 - it was the In Rock tour and I can remember drawing pictures of the concert afterwards. 1970 would have put me at 14 - doubt it was much after this because at 16 I was interested in girls and it wouldnt have looked cool to be drawing pictures of Rock Bands.

First Gig: ADAM ANT, BIRMINGHAM ODEON, 1982
Schoolfriend won a competition in a national newspaper. Prize: Signed copy of Adam Ant's Friend Or Foe album, plus two tickets to a concert on the FOF tour, plus a pre-gig meet-up with the man. He chose me to go with him, and my Mum drove us down to Birmingham. We sat in on the soundcheck and then met Mr Ant and sidekick Marco. Neither me nor my mate could speak - we were 13 and awed. My Mum had just made a video for the local education authority, and so she asked Adam about his videos and they hit it off, nattering away about stuff for 15 mins. He was a lovely fella, and Mum always asks if I have heard how he's getting on... Can't remember much about the gig - apart from missing Cartrouble because I took a trip to the loo, and also a missile-receiving Adam stopping a song and saying "Can the person in the audience who's throwing the toffees please stop throwing the toffees"...

First Album: THE POLICE - GHOST IN THE MACHINE (£1.69 at House Of Fraser).

First Gig - Uriah Heep, Glasgow Apollo, 1975

First album bought by me - Led Zeppelin 2 (on vinyl - and I still play it)

First album bought for me - Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin (on "musicassette"!)

T Rex at Bradford St George's Hall 1971?

1st bought album with own money Cream - Disraeli Gears

1st album (present) HJHs - With The Beatles

Yes, I am old

First gig - Sweet at The Cardinal (or maybe Chelsea Village), Bournemouth

First Album - The Rock Machine Turns You On

First gig (unless you count the Barron Knights live at some circus)Family supported by Linda Lewis at the Fairfield Halls.

First album (ignoring the Doctor Doolittle soundtrack) Abbey Road

First gig was If at the Torrington in North Finchley, London.

First album bought for me was The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society by my (elder) cousin Rose.

First album bought by me was Direct Hits by The Who

UFO at Hammersmith Odeon - 7th of February 1979. Supported by Girl. Anyone remember them? Had some minor hits with "Hollywood Teaze" and "My Number." The former song had some notoriety for the lyrics:

"Hey I'm sarcastic, I'll treat you like a spastic
Ignore every word that you say.."

They got away with it on TOTP back in the day...

I'm not sure of the year - probably 1972 or 1973. It was at the Oval Cricket Ground and featured Focus, Genesis and, top of the bill, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. And I can still remember some of it. I'd never heard of Focus before so "Hocus Pocus" and the yodelling took me a bit by surpise. And the fireworks spelling out "ELP" at the end have also stuck in the memory. And I think there was a model Tarkus but I could be imagigining that!

If that wasn't the first concert then it would have been the Rolling Stones at Wembley Empire Pool in 1973.

First album: Sgt Pepper - but about three years after it was released.

First bought for me - Replicas and The Pleasure Principle during my Gary Numan phase (1979-?)

First LPs actually bought with my own money - Architecture and Morality - OMD, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell, Dare - Human League. This was with spending money I had as a 15 year old spending two weeks in Madrid. They had stickers of Big Ben on them, saying "!#1 Inglaterra!" (I can't do an upside down ! at the front)

First concert was Depeche Mode and Blancmage at Exeter University during my Depeche Mode phase (1981-?).

I actually bought lots and lots of LPs and cassettes before that. The library used to sell 'em off for 50p (I bought the Landscape LP, the Buggles LP and The Jam's Setting Sons this way). Also the HJH had a complilation at Woolies for 1.99, which was pretty good,

...was Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970 (supported by Quintessence and Wilbert Harrison III - writer of 'Let's Stick Together). But I'd been taken by parents to see the Fourmost in a variety show at the London Palladium in 1964. Very disappointed because Cilla Black was on the same bill - but was unwell and replaced by Jackie Trent.

Checking back, I see that Tommy Cooper and Frankie Vaughan were also on the bill - but don't remember seeing them at all. I was nine years old and just completely mesmerised by seeing a genuine pop group in the flesh!!

First album bought for me - Sergeant Pepper

First album bought myself - Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers

Himley Hall, Dudley, West Midlands.......Sunday 1st June 1980......I was 12........support provided by The Blues Band (Paul Jones), Jameson Raid and Split Beaver.........

First record: A New World Record by ELO although mom and dad did have Disco Fever and Disco Stars by then.....Hey Baby I'm Your Telephone Man..........

A Night At The Opera - Queen

First gig:
Bruce Springsteen - Gothenburg 1985

First single - Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris

First Album - Pinups by Bowie

First gig - a band called Exodus in the local church hall (lots of Slade covers but a memorable "Five Years" Bowie cover).

First "real" gig Wishbone Ash at Sheffield City Hall in 1978 or 1979.

Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police
First gig - Kool and the gang, Wembley arena 1986

Buzzcocks, Top Rank (I think - top of Union St in Plymouth, 1978?79?) with Subway Sect supporting. Don't remember much about it except (a) I think I was the only one in the audience launching into a vigorous pogo during the 'silent' sections of 'Noise Annoys', and feeling sure that Pete Shelley was giving my inept flailing the "Who's that idiot?" look it probably deserved, and (b) my ears ringing the next day.

First LP - Queen II.

first album - If You Want Blood You've Got it (AC/DC) - on cassette.

first LP - Michael Schenker Group's second album

first Gig - Budgie (supported by Bernie Torme). Belfast Ulster Hall 1982

I was discussing this with Mark Ellen at the Massive pint, and he'd never heard of my first band - PFM, at the Free Trade Hall, who, err, widdled. Here they are Mark...

The support was Widowmaker, who were great.

First album - "Great Western Movie Themes", bought for the "The Good, the bad and the ugly" theme.

Meat is Murder was the first album i bought with my own dosh...and then i saw them at The Magnum leisure centre in Irvine in 1984 (i think).

My first album with own money was Elton John's Greatest Hits.

My First gig was Elton John's 'Louder Than Concorde Tour' at Earls Court in 1975. Aged 14 I had no idea about gigs (a mate a school had been with his sister the night before and said how good it was), so I jumped on the bus and went to Earls Court, wandered up to the ticket office and asked for a ticket. I had no idea if it was sold out or not. Anyway, I got a ticket for the princely sum of £1. Wandered in and I had a seat right down the front. Don't know if I was lucky or the person in the ticket office was being nice yo me. Remember a great version of Bennie And The Jets. Murray Head was support (he had an album out called 'Say It Ain't So' at the time). So a top first gig. Still got the programme. A Silver cover with a press out plane on the back. Think it cost 50p. Funny how well you remember the first one. Wouldn't have a clue what the second one was.

First album: Close to the Edge (on used vinyl, 1989)

First show: Yes, Montreal Forum, early September 1994

Depeche Mode at SFX, Dublin, 9th September 1983.

First album that I bought - 'Parallel Lines' by Blondie while on holiday in London in 1979.