ROSANNE CASH

country-pop singer-guitarist

“I believe my first LP that was all mine was ‘Meet the Beatles.’ It changed my life, and I scratched it to death. Then followed many albums that I asked my parents to buy for me, mostly Beatles.

“When we mastered ‘Seven Year Ache,’ it was the first time I had seen a master disc cut on the lathe. We mastered it a few days after John Lennon died, and in the matrix of the mother disc, I scratched ‘Goodbye, John.’ The first 25,000 copies of that album have that message in the matrix. That was real record making.

“But now that I think about it, the first record I paid for with my own money was Thunderclap Newman. ‘Something in the Air.’ Remember?”