 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £6.45 I was raised on Beatles! This is THE album of all time. But give The White Album a listen. So many people haven't heard it!
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 | After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £2.50 This has to be my favourite album EVER! My sister Heather came back from Canada with the next 3 albums when I was 12, and that changed my life musically for ever!
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 | Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.61 Still love this even though he's been out of fashion (and he's changed his name)! When I play his songs at Antonio's on a Sunday luchtime everyone joins in!
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 | Blue by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.80 I saw her on BBC3 a few months ago in a show recorded in 1970, and she'd just written the songs on Blue. She's playing the zither like instrument. Amazing!
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 | Deja Vu by Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £17.04 This used to be it for me in 1971! I remember sitting in a forestry plantation in the summer near Glenalmond listening to this on a cassette player until the batteries ran out!
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 | Desperado by Eagles
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.74 Remember reading a review in NME - Bernie Taupin rated this THE best album of 1973...so I went and bought it. It was before they were famous. Spent a whole Easter Holiday listening to this non-stop!
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 | Sweetheart of the Rodeo: Remastered by The Byrds
Buy new: £4.37 I've tried to put this list in some kind of chronological order of me discovering these albums. I'm cheating here!
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 | The Band by The Band
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.80 First heard them on Dylan's Before the Flood and thought them amazing. Took me a while to get back to them. But oh so worth it!
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 | This Year's Model: Remastered by Elvis Costello
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £6.90 Surfed in on New Wave and captured the beach bridgehead...!
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 | Late for the Sky: Remastered by Jackson Browne
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.25 Jackson was one of these guys I'd been waiting to hear. Saw him on the Old Grey Whistle Test. Could not afford to go to the concert in Glasgow for The Pretender Tour. Big mistake! Should have gone!
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 | Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £3.25 Bobby Stevenson brought this back from the US when it was released and told me this guy was the new Dylan. I told him "bollox". Wrong!
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 | Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.76 Some historical "airbrushing" here! I did not think when it came out that it was as good as DSOTM.....but, hey, I can admit that I'm fallible!
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 | Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £6.00 I was raised on Motown, and Stevie is the best artist to come out of it all. I could have chosen "Innervisions" but this has more variety of melody, and only one bum song called Blackman
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 | Quadrophenia by The Who
Buy new: £4.38 / Used from: £4.37 I could have chosen "Who's Next" but somehow this is much more complex....a real believable nutter running around the world...!
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 | Arc Of A Diver by Steve Winwood
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.29 Bought this in Ruwi High Street, Oman in 1980 on a pirate cassette. I sat up all night listening to it again and again!
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 | So by Peter Gabriel
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £4.00 Remember seeing the "Sledgehammer " video in a hotel room in Singapore for the first time and being blown away by the music and the effects!
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 | Meet Danny Wilson by Danny Wilson
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £6.92 Quit Shell from Holland to go to Aberdeen because I wanted to see them live playing "Aberdeen" in Aberdeen....well not quite....but close! Ended up seeing them there and they played it!
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 | Jordan: the Comeback by Prefab Sprout
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £1.73 First heard King of Rock and Roll in Holland - but Jordan went to another level! It's still about Paddy McAloon's two favourite subjects - God & Elvis!! Finally got to see them live in Glasgow in 2001
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 | Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.99 Got back to this after Unplugged. Derek at his best!
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 | Woodface by Crowded House
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.26 Heard them whilst going to see Scotland beat England at Murrayfield in 1990 (last grand slam:() Sue wondered why the hell I'd bought it! Within 5 years she's going to NZ to "stalk" Neil Finn!
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 | Marc Cohn by Marc Cohn
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £1.24 Jeff Hawkins told me about him while on Arran one summer, it's so good! The Rainy Season is his other which is equally excellent!
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 | Ron Sexsmith by Ron Sexsmith
Buy used from: £5.80 Read a review about him in Q magazine...even better! Saw him live in Aberdeen once in a really small place. He was superb and turned me onto Taylor guitars
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 | Raintown: Legacy Edition by Deacon Blue
Buy used from: £5.93 Named the daft Clumber after them! They are great live!
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 | Songs from Northern Britain by Teenage Fanclub
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.00 My 25 year old son James told me I would love this....yes! Listen to The Cosmic Rough Riders "Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine" as it's in the same vein.......! I would not say plagarism..!
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 | Parachutes by Coldplay
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.19 Saw them in The Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh playing to about 200 folk on their first tour ever - thanks to my daughter Gemma! Amazing night! They only played this!
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