Gareth William Owen was born in 1972, at a time when the No.1 single was Lieutenant Pigeon's "Mouldy Old Dough" and the No. 1 album was K-Tel's "All Time Hits Of The Fifties."
From here it could only be uphill.
Two years later, to the day, Muhammad Ali regained the Heavyweight championship of the world by knocking out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the People's Republic Of The Congo).
The first single I ever owned was "Car Wash" by Rose Royce, and the first I ever bought was "Eighth Day" by Hazel O'Connor. The first album I ever bought was a badly scratched copy of Bob Dylan's "Planet Waves" and from them I've found it physically impossible to walk past a record shop.
My last record purchases were:
Total cost, 3 pounds the lot.
The other hobbies I manage to fit round scouring Cheshire and Staffordshire for cheap vinyl are rugby and reading.