first song you heard that blew your mind, changed your life, or made you kick ass

[Kirkland Laing]

Debbie Harry, my first girlfriend, in a red and white striped outfit. I was a very early developing Sunderland-supporting nine year old. Hard to overstate the effect this had on me. Started a lifelong addiction to dirty blondes.

[Kirkland Laing]

And then next Thursday she was live in the Top Of The Pops studio.

[Gandalf]

I listened to The Beatles from about the age of 12 and that was me growing up a little bit beyond Humpty Dumpty, but the first album that really made my jaw drop open was the Ziggy Stardust album. I was just hooked. It was so different. Then from that you discover artists like Lou Reed and The Stooges and I remember the impact Transformer had on me. I felt like Indiana Jones discovering this stuff. It was very exciting.

Also at the time British music was going through a resurgence and bands like Pulp, Suede, and Manic Street Preachers were suddenly in vogue and for a young outsider like me it was as though the revolution was happening. Then you discover older albums these bands had made like The Holy Bible and Dog Man Star and it was life changing.

I miss being so emotionally affected by music and that buzz is what I am continuously searching for. It is what I imagine a religious experience must be like.