Speaking of flamenco and early experiences of music . . . Music bought when it came out leads to what’s the first music you ever bought!? What's the first live music you ever saw and heard?
Amongst the greatest memories of my brother I have to thank him for loads of musical references and particularly his becoming aware of the Oxford University Guitar Society (he discovered anyone could join at that time and anyone could go see the artists they booked in halls around the campus (its the entire CITY!) and we got to see Segovia, (front row, feet away of The Sheldonian Theatre ) Manitas de Plata (in the New Theatre I think), the same room was enough!, a primal force of nature and Paco Peña first row in a small concert room somewhere inches away from him, staggering, never quite the same after that!
Remembering the first time I ever heard live music was a concert I was taken to with primary school I think to see a piano recital of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto in B flat
Which was the first record I asked to buy (a 10” album of!) I guess I would have 10 or eleven