a total music obbsessive since the age of 11,grew up hearing fine sounds through older bros. and sisters, 60s soulstax//tamla,modskinhead siblings! 1st 5 7"45rpm bought in 1974 were carl douglas 'kung-fu fighting'/george mccrae 'rock your baby'/jimmy ruffin 'what becomes of the broken hearted'/supremes'baby love' (both reissued and in the charts) and stevie wonders'boogie on reggae woman'.my brother kieron bought me the motown story for xmas '74 which was superb! by 1977 i gravited to the funkrockfusion coming out at the time and became majorley taken with funkadelic/parliament/bootsy/undisputed truth/isely bros. then into the late and great jimi hendrix.new wave/punk was making it's presence felt by 1978 and the stranglers 'black and white' lp and devo's 'are we not men' plus siouxsie and the banshees 'hong kong garden' 7" were the beginnings of a whole new genre of sounds. the 1980s were pretty much shite other than the manchester scene. still adore the sounds of the 60s/70s,from the