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Artist
Jon Marsh
12+ albums
electronic80sUKHouse90s
about
Camberwell, London, 1965: youngest by 9 years of four children. The main advantage of this was being surrounded by the record collections of three teenagers as a very small child; folk, pop, psychedelic rock, and, as a unifying force in the house, The Beatles. The first record I bought was 'The Ballad Of John & Yoko' by The Beatles on an Apple Records but I have a feeling I was coerced by my siblings to use my pocket-money towards this. I'm well aware that my second purchase was 'Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West' by Benny Hill! All through my childhood I was obsessed with music, buying singles wherever possible and being fascinated by the b-sides - music i hadn't heard on the radio; often terrible, occasionally amazing. The emergence of artists like Roxy Music and David Bowie was hugely influential though, and as a kid, I was equally enamoured of the less adventurous, but more simplified music/visuals of Sweet and Wizzard. The first band I was totally drawn to was Sparks. Seeing them on Top Of The Pops doing 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us' was a seminal moment - dynamic, melodromatic, and unique. I also remember hearing Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' in 1975 (I think) and being mesmerised by the synthesized otherworldliness. Conversely I also got really into the progressive rock of Peter Gabriel-era Genesis and, unsurprisingly, Pink Floyd. Aged 11, and living in London, the entire punk thing passed me by! It was the new wave/post-punk movement that really began
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