A colleague who DJed on the side gave it to me for Christmas.

Got it at a record store 2 years ago. As a NO fan I couldn’t afford them all when I was a teenager working in red rooster for $5 per hour in the 80s. Another cog in my collection complete after over 35 years. Thank you record stores.

I am no. 4 out of 6 kids and we were all music mad. Our dad played records in the 60s and mum started buying us all an album for Christmas each year. I was 7 when I received this record in the late 60’s and it was the first that was 100% my own. It ignited a lifelong passion for vinyl and I am still collecting to this day.

I haven’t had this vinyl that long, but it’s very important to me. I was thrift shopping with my son, who I never got to spend much time with when he was growing up. He had recently purchased a record player & was discovering vinyl for the first time. We came across this 1984 original UK pressing 12″ single of William. To my surprise the B side was the first appearance of How Soon is Now? At that time, I didn’t even have a record player. Now I do and I have reconnected with my son over the love of vinyl. I still spin up How Soon is Now & it’s as good as ever!

My brother bought it for me on my 12th Birtday. It was the first album I really got into after first hearing the song ‘Intergalactic’ on the radio.

Not the oldest but one of the best copy’s I have ever seen. A late close friend of mine who passed away recently new I was after a magical copy of this! Will always bring me joy playing this og copy and thinking of him!!

I remember when rock was young, playing lego listening to mums Elton John records, life was good, this is my treasured oldest record memory passed down from my mum. Too Low For Zero was my favourite as it had” I’m still Standing” on the track list mum used to sing around the house all the time. I had to recreate from Lego my record story…and Elton with the Yellow Brick Road backdrop!.

I was 15yo old at the time.I got my very first pay check and went down to Coburg( Melbourne ) to a shop Called BLUEBIRD RECORDS located in Foley’s Mall .I was intrigued by the Album cover opening up as a Newspaper.I bought it for $5.95c.I played it as soon as I got home and loved it straight away.I READ every story on that cover.It still sounds as good today as it did then.cheers Mark

This is the record I have owned the longest (not the oldest record I own). It was the first record I bought, from Wests Soundbar in Westfields Burwood at the age of 7. I bought it as I loved Suzi Quatro (still do) and Devil Gate Drive was on the record. That song is associated with so many happy memories of dancing around with friends, doing our made up actions to the song. The record also introduced me to ZZ Top (La Grange) and Stevie Wright (Evie) and included Hooked on a Feeling, all songs/artists I still love. This record sparked a lifelong love of albums. I continue to purchase vinyl and CDs regularly and listen to whole albums in the order the artist intended even if I don’t like every song, and even if streaming. I still get a little shiver of excitement whenever I lower the needle onto a record. There’s nothing quite like it.

The first record I ever purchased for myself was Appetite for Conversation. I thought it was so cool, the clear vinyl, the conversation. I was pretty obsessed with the Gunners when I was 14. I felt like I was getting an insight into their life. I thought for sure this woukd be a collectors item one day! I grew up in a small town, there was no record shop. I found this album in Carrig Music in a regional centre about an hour and a half from home on a shopping trip with my Family. My mum was not impressed, but I loved it and listened to it over and over in my bedroom!