I remember being very impressed when some older kids mimed to Showaddywaddy's 'Under the Moon of Love' at school when I was about 8.

I enjoyed all sorts of pop music in the mid to late 70s and got very into the whole 2-Tone thing when I was 12. Cropped all my hair off to my mum's horror!

Well I enjoyed Take That, but not as much as my sister. (saw them yesterday ) But my first band I got properly into - S Club 7!!! Glad I'm not the only one here who liked them!

Now I listen to music like 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park.etc!

I quite liked S Club 7 aswell!! 30 Seconds to Mars are my fave band now so I'm glad my tastes have matured a bit

Roxy Music

My first favourites were The Cranberries and Eminem. Two very different artists there.

When i was about 8 I remember really liking the New Seekers

As I got a bit older the bands I really got into were the punk bands like the Clash, Undertones and Blondie - still like 'em now

When i was very young i used to sit listening to The Beatles all day and night with my incredibly large headphones on. I loved them.

As a younger teen Good Charlotte were my favorite band and i was into Blink, The Offspring etc too.

Then as an older teen/young adult i moved onto different genres of dance music, some known, some less known.

Now i just like everything and mainly listen to what's in the charts and on the radio.

Elton John, Abba, Bananarama (WTF??...) And then when I was about 16 I started listening to classical music and never looked back. 20-odd years later I've very rarely found the need to listen to anything else.

10cc was one of the first bands I remember really listening to.

s club 7, spice girls & steps

As regards international acts, I'd say Aaliyah, Destiny's child, Kylie Minogue, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna and P!nk

The Shadows in 1960. I was 7 and my Dad bought 'Apache'. It was the first song I remember really liking and wanting to hear over and over again. I've loved most genres of electric guitar based music ever since.

My first record was Whitney Houston but the first artist/band I really got into growing up was Guns n Roses. I can remember watching a concert of theirs on the TV while playing He-Man with my cousin

Jackson 5... loved them to bits..then Culture Club

I guess it would be Rod and The Faces about 1971-72

It all began with Britney for me. I loved all the big divas though. Mariah, Whitney, Celine, Madonna. A tiny bit of Cher as well.

But on the cheesy side, i also liked S Club, Spice girls and a love hate relationship with Steps as well as adoring Westlife for their first 4 albums.

I grew up with Simon and Garfunkle, The Beach Boys and The Beatles. We lived abroad and it was all a bit retro.

Coming back to the UK I discover Kate Bush and The Velvet Underground.

Kylie Minogue was my first love at the tender age of five. First album I ever bought was her debut album, on cassette tape.

When I was in secondary school and made the transition from cassettes to CDs, the first one I purchased was Eternal's Greatest Hits from Boots.

I've always gone for pop.

I used to watch Top of the Pops and listen to the radio and quite liked Glam when I was young, but the first group I got into and started buying the albums and singles of were Judas Priest and I still listen to their stuff today.

Esssss Club. They aint no party like an S Club party! Gonna show you hoowwwwww, shake your body from side to side.

Oooh. Ooh. Wave your hands in the air. Oooh. Oooh. Like you just don't care.

I liked S Club 7. A lot.

wizzard werent influenced by anyone you mean?... actually theres a plethora of influences in there.. roy wood was/is a big fan of the 50's rock n roll sound and spearheaded the rock n roll revival in the early 70's.


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i was fortunate enough to remember the mid 60's, so from 64 onwards i listened as a kid anything that was on totp.. beatles, stones, kinks, motown, animals, spencer davis, small faces, yardbirds, who, troggs, etc etc etc.. i guess though as a kid the first act that i was a fan of was dave dee dozy beaky mick and tich...

I have been a Cliff fan forever-I was allowed to stay up and watch Eurovision in 1968 when I was nearly 4 and I cried when he lost. I still have a scrap book with lots of pictures of him, mainly from the Jackie magazine (an older cousin used to give me them). Have been to loads of concerts since I was 16 and although I like many other singers/groups, Cliff is my 'original'

I loved steps when i was about eight...
Then i played linkin parks first album everyday for about year...
Then I loved Ozzy Osbourne and REM when i was about 12 and still like those a lot now!

Boyzone and Frankie Goes To Hollywood were my first albums I think.
Boyzone because I loved Stephen Gately and Frankie 'cos I heard Relax on an advert and thought it was amazing.
Of course my wee innocent nine year old self had no idea of the filth I was listening to. (This applies to both Frankie and Boyzone)

Then when I was eleven a band called Prodigy hit number one with a little ditty called Firestarter and the course of my music collection changed forever.

My mum taped all the spice girls' music videos and then I watched them for quite a while. Then Avril Lavigne became my favourite singer, and I got her album 'Let Go' for my bday and listened to it almost every day. I also liked Blue, and Shania Twain. My bro listened to The Red Hot Chili Peppers often, so I got into them too. I remember dancing to S Club songs when I was in primary school but I didn't have any of their albums.. I bought Stacie Orrico's album and loved it too.. I loved Busted and listened to their songs regularly and still know most of them by heart but I didn't realise the sexual lyrics..