1976 - 1977

3-11-10 1976 – 1977

1976 was my last year of high school and my first year of having a job in a record store. 1977 was my first full year working in a record store – as you will see, it’s not quite “punk rock” time for me just yet.

Aksak Maboul – Onze Danses Pour Combaittre La Migraine

Lucio Battisti – Io Tu Noi Tutti

Roland Bocquet – Paradia

Can – Unlimited Edition

Crack The Sky – Animal Notes

Deaf School – Second Honeymoon

Donovan – s/t (RAK)

The Enid – In The Region of the Summer Stars

Philip Glass – North Star

Goblin – Suspiria (O.S.T.)

Godley & Crème – Consequences (with Peter Cook)

Gruppo Sportivo – 10 Mistakes

Peter Hammill – Over

Sensational Alex Harvey Band – S.A.H.B. Stories

Hugh Hopper – Hoppertunity Box

Judas Priest – Sin After Sin

Kayak – The Last Encore, Starlight Dancer

Lard Free – s/t (Album #3)

Magma – Udu Wudu

Michael Mantler – The Hapless Child

Phil Manzanera / 801 – Listen Now

John Miles – Stranger In The City

National Health – s/t

Le Orme – Storia O Leggenda, Verita Nascoste

Hermeto Pascoal – Slave’s Mass

Jim Pembroke – Corporal Cauliflower’s Mental Function

Picchio Dal Pozzo – s/t

P.F.M. – Jet Lag

Procol Harum – Something Magic

Brian Protheroe – I/You

Pulsar – Strands Of The Future

Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen

Sebastian Hardie – Windchase

Space – Magic Fly

Split Enz – Second Thoughts

The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus IV

Ultravox – Ha Ha Ha

Van Der Graaf – World Record, Quiet Zone – Pleasure Dome

Steve Winwood – s/t

Frank Zappa – Zappa In New York, Zoot Allures

Z.N.R. – Barricades 3

Many of these records are very special to me. And not all of them are progressive rock!