BARRY HASSAN
Quality not quantity is the watchword for Northern Irish collector Barry Hassan, whose record collection began with 90s indie, but branched out into classic and hard rock…
Barry Hassan
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What was the first record you bought?
“In 1994, I was eight years old and grew up in the north west of Northern Ireland. There was pretty much only one record shop in the city at that time, and it was called Sounds Around. I remember regularly going in as a kid; I had just To be in with a chance of seeing your record collection in Long Live Vinyl, email your details and a picture to gary.walker@anthem-publishing.com really started getting into music and Definitely Maybe by Oasis had just been released. It was on display on the wall as a new release, and that’s the first one I bought with pocket money. It’s still around, even if that great shop is not.”