The first song I remember hearing
Can’t Buy Me Love by the Beatles. My brother and sister are a lot older than me – 17 years – and my brother was a massive Beatles fan, so I grew up in the 80s to a lot of 60s and 70s music. I remember finding the video to Yellow Submarine very scary.
The first single I bought
Chris Evans had a competition when he was still a local DJ on BBC Radio London in the early 90s, where you had to phone up and answer some sort of stupid question. I won a copy of Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul on 7in single, and they posted it to me.