DON HENLEY

singer-drummer with rock group the Eagles

“No. I remember singles, though. The first single I ever bought was 'Hound Dog' by Elvis Presley. My mom would make weekly or monthly trips to the nearest large town, which was 25,000 people as opposed to our 3,000, and buy me Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes records. Those were the first records that I owned, those red and yellow vinyl records. One day in the mid-'50s, she said, 'I'm going to the record store. Do you want anything?' And I said, 'Yeah, get me this “Hound Dog” thing by this guy Elvin Presley.' She bought it for me, and that was the beginning on that. I started collecting records by Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Little Richard and that whole '50s thing.

“But I can't remember my first album. My mom and dad had lots of big band albums – Glen Miller, Guy Lombardo and stuff like that – around the house. I remember having a 'Pink Panther' soundtrack album with music by Henry Mancini. And I remember buying the first Beatles album when it came out – 'Meet the Beatles' – but there must have been something before that. I don't know. But I know that there's a big stack of them that I left at my mom's house, and they're still there. I should go and look at them sometime.”