I was a war baby, Feb 1944.
1943 - beat you by 1
So steady improvement from Billy Cotton, Chas McDevitt, Dickie Valentine, Ronnie Carol then something of interest Bill Haley, Little Richard, The Platters, Cliff and the shadows and onwards and mostly upwards.
All bought at Howards store with strange token things via a process involving little wooden containers whizzing along the store between strings and played on a wind-up gramophone through an electric pick up arm that dad grafted on and wired up to the wireless (Radio Rentals)
Blue tooth - ha