 | Tubular Bells Vol.1: Remastered by Mike Oldfield
Buy used from: £4.44 I bought the original of TB on 25 May 1973 - the day it was released. It was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I still play it at least once a month.
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 | Spectral Mornings: Remastered by Steve Hackett
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £7.86 Hackett's genius exemplified. His other albums complement Spectral Mornings.
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 | Propaganda by Sparks
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.20 Even when I was 11 years of age I understaood Ron's stage persona. He made me laugh. He scared my friends! Never turn your back on Mother Earth is brilliant!
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 | Rising by Rainbow
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.04 This album introduced me to the greatest guitar player on the planet.
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 | Shadow of the Moon by Blackmore's Night
Buy new: £17.59 / Used from: £42.69 This album introduced me to middle age! Or did it introduce me to the Middle Ages? In any event, Ritchie is a Prophet!
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 | Oxygene by Jean-Michel Jarre
Buy used from: £2.98 I took this (vinyl) album back to WH Smiths five times before I got an unscratched copy! I love it!
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 | Equinoxe by Jean-Michel Jarre
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £7.90 And this is the only album I have ever queued overnight outside a shop to get when it opened. And boy! it was worth it!
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 | Misplaced Childhood by Marillion
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.44 One of the greatest days in my life was when this was released on CD and I did not have to get out of my chair to turn the album over. Brilliant!
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 | Logos: Live at the Dominion, London 1982 by Tangerine Dream
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.39 Just turn the lights out; stick two fingers up at the world and play Part One. 25 minutes later, you will have seen the light!
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 | Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £3.74 Just when you thought Mike was starting to take the Mick, he came up with this inspirational journey to a place I have never been before, This album takes me there every time.
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 | Streets of Fire by Various
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £5.78 Tonight is what it means to be Young! This songs says it all. The album and the film are a pleasant distraction.
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 | The Snow Goose by Camel
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £2.69 Early memories of story telling through lyrics and complementary music. A forerunner of Misplaced Childhood.
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 | Down To Earth by Rainbow
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.52 Memories of my first girlfriend. Okay, so it's not Rainbow's best, but this is my life story!
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 | Peter Gabriel Vol.3 by Peter Gabriel
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.99 This was when I realised that art and music could come together in the ether.
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 | Poesia Di Venezia by Rondo Veneziano
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.16 Sheer Bliss! As are the other forty odd albums of Maestro Reverberi. I want to see them live-in-concert before I die!
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 | The Golden Section by John Foxx
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £4.17 I like much of John's work. This for me is when it all came together through his collaboration with Zeus B. Held. Saw JF live in 1987. Great!
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 | Rattus Norvegicus: IV by Stranglers
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.69 A dark album for a dark era in my life. I was between Rainbow and New Romantic (yes it can happen). The Stranglers let me vent my spleen.
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 | Self Control by Laura Branigan
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £4.51 The greatest female voice: Ever! I cried when I heard she had died. She is the first of my music idols to leave this mortal coil and she has prepared me for others to come. All part of growing old.
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 | Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.25 Classic example of a stunning vocalist taking the material of a dreadful vocalist who was a brilliant songwriter and making those songs appeal to the masses.
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 | Pyramid by Alan Parsons
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £2.86 Every time I feel low, I play Shadow of the Lonely Man. It sums up depression and opens up optimism.
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 | The Getaway by Chris De Burgh
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.67 Until I heard this, I did not think it was possible to produce an album without a bad song on it. Fandabidozey!
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 | Down to the Moon by Andreas Vollenweider
Buy used from: £4.87 Mood music. Dark Room. Cuddle your Girl Friday.
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 | Mother Focus by Focus
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.23 The first album I ever bought that made me look beyond the charts. Thanks to my (future) Brother-in-Law.
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 | Signals by Rush
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £4.20 The cause of me spending a lot of money to get to a lot of concerts over the years. Rush are guillty, as charged!
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 | Oasis by Tangerine Dream
Buy used from: £20.00 Waterborne is probably the single most played track in my life. It is as stunning today as it was when I first heard it! May it be so for the rest of my life!
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