Passion for pop

LIKE Craig Brown, my interest in pop music peaked as a youngster (Mail).

When I was ten in 1961, my parents bought their first record player, which they brought home on a motorbike with my mother as pillion.

We had only four singles: Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean, Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis Presley, You’ll Answer To Me by Cleo Laine and Helen Shapiro’s Walkin’ Back To Happiness — all of which I still own. They are playable and in their original sleeves.

Two years later, along came The Beatles and changed the face of music. CLIVE WALLIS, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.