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Early Days

Living in the 60's and early 70's

I was there in the 60's, but of course I don't remember it. Not because I was high.... I was just too young.

I do remember my Mother playing the "Light" Service on her Bush radio (which used the largest batteries I have ever seen) upon which the BBC occasionally deigned to play Popular Music. It had a massive speaker and despite its age it sounded really good.

We also had a Dansette: a small, portable record player and later on a proper record player with separate speakers. And my parents had a record collection: mainly classical (I learned from a very young age that wasn't the way to go), but The Monkees Greatest Hits and some Rolling Stones singles.

By the early 70's I had my own Benkson Hong Kong import AM radio on which I could listen to Radio Luxembourg (with cigarette ads!), Radio Caroline and Radio 1 under the bedcovers.
And then I discovered my parents had an early cassette recorder buried in a bottom drawer - purchased for voice recording I believe then discarded. This started not only a love affair with music but also with electronics. I wore that poor little tape recorder out, and a subsequent Hanimex radio-cassette unit. By 1977 I had a proper HiFi system and things would never be the same.