00:00Well, I can't stop buying records. There's just something about, you know, it's in your blood.
00:06You know, like women buy shoes or handbags or whatever. They've got to go and buy more dresses,
00:11you know. Well, I'm the same with the vinyl. Kevin's got a friend and they used to do the
00:16northern, all the record fairs and the records. They used to meet a couple of times a week and
00:20play the music. And his friend said, if anything happened to him, he would have Kevin's record.
00:25And I've told him straight, no way. I've had to put up with him for 23 years and his collection,
00:29they're mine. Oh, thanks. Thanks for that.
00:34My name is Kevin Turner. I'm from Wolverhampton and my age is 66. My journey started when I was
00:45at junior school. A friend of mine bought a seven inch vinyl recording to use as a frisbee.
00:53And I thought, well, no, you can't do that. So what I suggested was I'll swap a bag of marbles
01:01for this seven inch vinyl record. And we did. And for me, that was the first vinyl that I had
01:10for me personally. Obviously, when I was younger, you had pocket money. So the pocket money I was
01:18getting was 10 shillings a week, which we thought was phenomenal because you always got change out
01:23to the 10 shillings. But because I started getting interested in music, I thought, well,
01:31I'll start saving the music and then start buying seven inch vinyl records. I think now,
01:38off the top of my head, there's got to be well over a thousand and that's just seven inch singles.
01:47I did sell my LP collection, which was a big one, because purely and simply, I couldn't get it in
01:54where I was living at the time. It was too big. So we used to start doing record fairs on a regular
02:01basis, a friend, myself. And then in the end, we ended up doing the record fairs ourselves and
02:08hiring the table, selling off what we didn't want. So we could then go and buy what we did want.
02:16As regards value on some of the records, some are quite valuable. I've been putting my collection,
02:25I can tell you now, I've been registering in my collection, like indexing it, if you like,
02:31or trying to index it. I've been trying to index the collection on Discogs. So what you do,
02:38it comes up, you put in whatever you bought or purchased or what you've got and it gives you
02:46a bottom figure, a middle figure and a top figure. I've got three cases of about
02:56100 in each case and the high figure is coming out at 20,000. I met my partner 22 years ago.
03:08I think it was 22 years ago. Anyway, and it was at the time, it was a singles club.
03:15Well, the thing that I use to try and keep it sweet is I say, right, because we do,
03:22we're both Northern Soul fans. Well, I'm a big Northern Soul fan and we do go to Northern Soul
03:28venues. And I'll say, when they're obviously playing the track and I'll say to Joe,
03:34oh, that's in the box. That single is in the box. And she'll go, yes, but which box is it in?
03:43And I'll say, well, it doesn't really matter because you're going to end up with all the
03:47collection anyway. My name's Janet. I'm 71 and I live in Bushbury. We met at the singles club
03:54and I think what it was, it was so laid back. It was horizontal. It was so carefree and everything
04:00and we just clicked. And now sometimes I'll say, oh, I've got another one, but it's his collection.
04:06It's not mine. You know, it's his hobby and I would never, ever dream of taking it away from
04:12him. When we go to Goodyears, and that's where we use to go for our Northern Soul,
04:16that they get together and the lads get together and it's music, music, music, because once you
04:22start Kevin, you cannot stop him. He needs to tell you everything he knows about that single
04:28or that artist. And it just goes on. So me and the girls just ignore him and think,
04:32hell yeah, I'm dancing. I do say to him, where the hell is he going to go?
04:38And I have said to him in the past, you know, if you're partners and you have a rep,
04:42I would say to him, your final is going to go out the window with your clothes.
04:48But I know I wouldn't do it because I know they mean that much to him. I'd probably chuck all
04:51his clothes out, but not his final.
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