I can still remember smelling the vinyl for the first time, being transfixed by the album artwork, and poring over the liner notes. I persuaded my parents to buy it for me and I owed them two weeks of my paper round money for the privilege! Within a month I had saved enough money to also purchase it on vinyl and CD, although it was a further year before I actually owned a CD player. This was simply the greatest thing that I had ever heard in my young life! As Phil has mentioned in interviews before, it really was “Star Wars for the ears”! The following Saturday I saw the original tape cassette of Hysteria in Woolworths. From hearing the opening guitar on “Women”, I was mesmerized. I played the tape three times in succession that night. I duly inserted the tape into my cassette player, plugged in my Walkman headphones and lay on the floor to listen. When the sun went down it was time to go home. A few hours later, she handed me a tape cassette of a band named Def Leppard and the album was called Hysteria. My friend Rebecca stated that if I liked guitar, her sister had just bought a new album that I would love, and she would make me a bootleg copy. Naturally, during Brian May’s guitar solo I proceeded to use my tennis racket as a guitar so I could rock out. One evening we were listening to the radio on a portable radio and “A Kind of Magic" by Queen came on. The passion all began with a bootleg of Hysteria! It was the summer of 1987 I was twelve years old and spent my evenings with friends playing tennis and socializing on one of the driveways in my street.
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