We Are Family

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A thread from yesterday that should have its own post:

How much has your family influenced your listening habits? Are you an older/younger/middle sibling, or an only child? Are your musical tastes anything like your parents'?

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[genie22.livejournal.com]

Neither parent is especially into music. They were Beatles/Jim Reeves/Abba fans though.

Me = eldest. Whilst I do like teh BoneyM + Beatles bits, I tend to avoid all the old-skool Sri Lankan pop. The new stuff's so much better.

My pop habit started aged four; the aunt had an Elvis tape. Myself, my cousin Tudor (snarf, he's a nice guy really) and my bro used to dance around to 'Return to Sender'. Since she'd worked in America, she used to shut us up with this tape of 'eeny, meeny, mini, mo' and other games. I preferred the Elvis but majority wailing (little sis was one at this time) won out.

Thankfully I discovered a taperecorder and 'This Morning' so I got the Kylie-fix everyone else was getting and the rest was history.