My taste in music was pretty much influenced by my elder brother (whoms 9 years older than me) , also my cousin had some brilliant records that he taped for me too in the early 80s.  My brother had me listening to music during the early 70s, David Bowie, Kinks, Elton John , Supertramp, and Ian Dury to name but a few, and then in the early 80s my brother got me into Blondie and The Police, and i remember he had a real big thing about Shakatak, and when ever i went round his, there would be one of their LPs playing.

Be interesting to hear how other people came to like various types of music.

Dont think i"ve ever really left the 80s. My mum had Barbara Striesand, Dionne Warwick and Barry Manilow, which i made her play constantly, but my brother bought me alot of my albums to begin with, Blondies "Eat to the Beat" was a birthday pressie, and one of my oldest school friends bought me my very first 12" record Culture Clubs "Do You want to Hurt me" for my birthday too. My dad has still got the old music centre up in his loft, and i am hoping to get it down one day, and show my children how great it was to listen to the crackle at the start of a record.