A brief intro...
I HAVE BEEN COLLECTING RECORDS FROM AGE 12 OR THIRTEEN, MY DAD USED TO BRING BOXES OF RECORDS HOME FROM THE LOCAL AUCTION/SALE ROOMS (78'S AND 45'S) TAKE OUT WHAT HE WANTED (HE LOVED COUNTRY MUSIC) GIVE ME THE REST AND THAT STARTED ME OFF BUYING COLLECTING, SO HAD TO GET ME A PAPER ROUND, FIRST STINT AS A DJ WAS AT THE TOP 20 CLUB IN 1968. MY STEP SISTER WHO WAS OLDER THAN ME WAS A MOD AND INTRODUCED ME TO EARLY TV PROGRAMS SUCH AS 6- 5 SPECIAL, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS, READY STEADY GO,JUKE BOX JURY ETC WHICH FUELED MY LOVE OF ALL THING SOUL/MOD, BOUGHT MY FIRST SCOOTER IN 1968, A LAMBRETTA SX 200 REG NUMBER LEE 622F, ALL WHITE, LOVELY BIKE THAT I WISH I STILL OWNED! FAVOURITE POP BAND BACK THEN 'THE SMALL FACES' STEVIE MARRIOT WAS MY HERO AT THE TIME. OVER THE YEARS RAN MY OWN SOUL NITES IN AND AROUND LINCOLNSHIRE /YORKSHIRE AND MY NAME WAS PUT FORWARD TO MARY AND COLIN CHAPMAN TO DJ AT A COUPLE OF PROJECTS SHE WANTED TO START IN THE EARLY TO MID 70S THE LEDGENDARY CLEETHORPES PIER AND WINTER GARDENS, THROUGH THAT ENCOUNTER WITH MARY I WENT ON TO DJ AT MOST OF THE BIG SOUL NITES AND NITER ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND STILL BUY AND COLLECT RECORDS TO THIS DAY, NEVER STOPED AND THAT INCLUDES ALL THE NEW SOULFULL STUFF , OLD OR NEW IF IT IS SOULFUL I'M 'AVIN' IT AND PLAYIN' IT, RICK
