Mine was CHANGESBOWIE on cassette, about March 1990. I was 15 & didn't own a CD player.

I remember riding on my bike up to the local M&W on a lovely summers day to buy ChangesBowie. It was a huge £9.99 on tape, and the lady was pretty.

Before that for years I'd mainly borrowed stuff off older family members - ChangesTwo on tape / ChangesOne on vinyl / a very crackly tape recording of K-Tel's 'best of' / Scary Monsters / Ziggy on tape. We're talking 1986 - 1990.

I think the first actual thing I bought was ZS '90 Emi issue on tape.

I think.

I can't remember. It was either Cat People 7 inch or ChangesTwoBowie.

Ah, cool

It's the little details (such as the BMX) that make it interesting.

1990 was a great summer & I only 'discovered' Bowie that year, from a T.V. advert for CHANGESBOWIE. I was doing my GCSEs & worked part time in Somerfield (then called Gateway) for £1.50 an hour. So the cost of the cassette was quite a few hours work, but well worth it.

I actually wore out the tape from playing it so much. I used to listen to it on my Walkman when cycling to and from school and my p/t job.

I also remember that there was a big gap at the end of side 1, so I taped over the protective notch and recorded Undergound from vinyl to fill the gap!


Bowie was massive in 1990, on the radio every hour.

The first album I bought was the compilation album 'ChangesTwoBowie', followed by 'Diamond Dogs' which I had listened to over and over again at the public library. From then on, it's a bit of a blur; the next couple of albums I got was probably 'Low', 'Lodger', 'Stage', 'At The Tower Philadelphia' and 'Rare'. I know I had 'Heroes' and 'Scary Monsters' on tape (remember the slogan "Home taping is killing music", anyone...?!). The reason I choose 'ChangesTwoBowie' was that it featured 'Starman' which was the first Bowie song I had ever heard and which I enjoyed, as well as 'Fashion', which I classmate of mine had told me was also very good. I do remember that the guy working in the recordstore actually recommended me this, then just released, compilation album as he thought it was a good introduction to Bowie's music. The reason I got interested in Bowie in the first place was that I had been to an album cover exhibition at an art gallery where Bowie was well represented; so I got into Bowie without ever having heard his music, I was drawn in just by looking at all the different, intriguing and otherworldly album covers -

I knew Bowie, but only was aware of Let's Dance / Ziggy (the character, not the music) / Dancing in the Street / Absolute Beginners. I loved Queen and they did a song with him so he was the next logical step. My sister had ChangesTwo and I loved Sound & Vision but found the rest a bit too odd.

"I also remember that there was a big gap at the end of side 1, so I taped over the protective notch and recorded Undergound from vinyl to fill the gap!"

My brother was a Bowie Fan during the 70s so all the albums were played as they came out.I bought this album second hand with my first dole cheque in 1978 while starting a Bootleg L.P collection.


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Mine was 'Low'

The Let's Dance album. That started it all for me...

Mine was Hunky Dory in May 1973.

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John i'm only dancing single in 1972 then Hunky dory.

'Low' and not that long ago...the collection's been slowly expanding forward and backward.

Smile at least

A ticket for my 1st Bowie gig way back in the day. The start of a very long and expensive fixation

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REALITY bites
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Single - JOID 1972
Album - Aladdin Sane 1973 (my big bro already had ZS)

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Baal

I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way

http://www.helden.org.uk

My first Bowie purchase was Heathen and only for the "5:15 The Angels Have Gone" track.


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Age of the geek, baby...

Mine was "The Best Of David Bowie 1969/1974" Still an awesome compilation if you ask me.

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Flawed, but a great idea.

Wait for it...

the Labyrinth soundtrack, closely followed by Never Let Me Down.

And I'm still here.

Go figure.

Ziggy on release followed by TMWSTW and Hunky Dory both from that little record shop in Heath St. NW3. Happy Days.

Bowie: The Singles 1969-1993. A fine way to start. I loved it all from "Space Oddity" all the way through to "Jump They Say." Bought The Buddha of Suburbia not long after and it sealed the deal. I had all the albums within a couple of years.

i had starman , john i'm only dancing and jean genie on the old rca orange 7" vinyl before i could afford my first bowie album.i think it was ziggy closely followed by aladdin sane.to my credit i had starman before it even charted. a friend and fellow t.rex fan introduced me to it very early on.i liked it but still thought t.rex were way better.at this point i had no idea what he looked like. then i saw lift off with ayshea and it was all over.....37 yrs and counting....no girl has ever syayed in my affections that long

I parted with cash for was Aladdin Sane ... think it was £1.50? (My older brother had already given me HD and TRAFOZSATSFM .) What a lovely gatefold, to write my name all over and display above my bed, too!

I still have mine, and all my dead hair too!



Tits and Explosions

I still have my hair from when I very first had a fringe cut... all 18" of it!

John C Holmes was only 14"



Tits and Explosions

When we take tea

laughing gnome, in was it'73?.my third 45,the other two were the sweet and gary glitter[who knew?].i still have them all.

Ashes to Ashes 7"

I wasn't a Bowie fan but remember seeing the video on Tiswas and fell in love with it. Think I had to wait a week before it came out but it was a turning point.

I was 12.

Anywhere I Lay My Head by Scarlett Johansson - August 2008.

Love

Sonny