First Jethro Tull song I heard was the opening track from This Was, their sublime debut album before they started releasing singles. My brother bought the album and I fell in love with it, and the band, instantly. Here's that opener, My Sunday Feeling (and yes, I know it's only Saturday!)
AAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!.... That brings back so many memories Hells, my older sister played that until my ears bled....and David Cassidy too.... At least it wasnt Little Jimmy....
Confession of an old punk - Crazy Horses was one of the first singles I ever bought and I still like it now.
Just looked through a few LPs in the collection and came across an odd one for the First Song I Heard.... Gary Numan. Oops, no it was actually Tubeway Army, before he dropped that idea and just called the band by his own name. I remember that awful smiling DJ with the perm, err... Somebody Powell, introducing several singles on his Radio 1 show, and then pronouncing on which were good and which weren't. I found this moderately entertaining because almost every song he thought was the best, I thought differently. It was almost as if he was being bunged to promote the obvious star performer's single. Down In The Park was Tubeway Army's first single from their second album Replicas and they were definitely not the stars. I thought it was bloody fantastic at the time, and still really like it. My brother [that one with the Led Zep II album 10 years earlier] thought it was monotonous and moronic. About 20 years later he got into Trance music. There's a lesson there, I think. Anyway, DITP died on that playing by Mr Powell, but TA got their own back with the second single, from the album, Our Friends Electric. I happen to like this one more. It's darker and purer.
Saw Gary Numan loads of times in concert. Brilliant live. Our Friends Electric always a crowd pleaser obviously.
On this day in 1974 "Mama" Cass Elliot died of a heart attack (not, as the popular myth goes, from choking on a ham sandwich) in London, England at age 32. She was a great talent with a wonderful voice, here are some examples....
