I’d been aware of Slade in the early 70s, of course, but by the time I was a teenager they’d virtually disappeared off the radar completely. I was already a confirmed Quo fan when the album was released in March 1981, just in time for my fifteenth birthday in May – thanks Mum!Īnother fifteenth birthday present (thanks Dad!). Not the greatest Quo album but a good solid album and a great cover of ‘Somethin’ Bout You Baby I Like’ which had made the top ten. My first rock album – and what an absolute classic to start off with. By 1981, though, she was getting far more into punk and so gifted me her copy. Highway to Hell came out in 1979 and not only did my dad have a copy but my older stepsister had one, too. My dad had been an early adopter as far as AC/DC were concerned, buying High Voltage not long after it was released in the UK and playing it pretty much constantly as I recall. But these are the first albums that I actually owned. By my early teens I’d begun taping a few things off my dad when I first got a portable tape recorder. With music-loving parents rock music had always been in the background growing up.
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