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The first album Tom Hanks ever bought
The filmography of Tom Hanks is so vast that it's hard to imagine him having time to listen to music, but he can recall the first album he was compelled to buy.
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Mon 13 January 2025 16:15, UK
When youâre busy acting in as many films as Tom Hanks has done over the course of his 45-year-long career, youâd understand that he might not always give himself much time to relax and listen to music. Given that heâs rarely ever had a break of longer than one year without being in at least one feature-length film over the course of that time, youâd imagine that most of his life is either spent on set or learning lines and that his idea of quality time would be to switch off completely.
Arguably, this downtime could be spent listening to music, but knowing Hanks and his interests in space and typewriters, itâs not so much of a given as it would be for known audiophile actors such as Elijah Wood that Hanks has a collection of LPs gathering dust in a corner of his house.
He might have inducted the Dave Clark Five into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, appeared in a Carly Rae Jepsen music video, and written, directed and starred in the musical comedy That Thing You Do!, but itâs hard to tell how much further than that his interest in music goes. Thereâs a Desert Island Discs appearance from the actor as well, where he listed a total of eight songs that shaped his life in some way or another, and his selection is relatively varied, if still not very revealing.
Picking songs from Talking Heads (âOnce in a Lifetimeâ), LL Cool J (âMama Said Knock You Outâ) and Richard Strauss (âAlso Sprach Zarathustraâ), the selection he presented to Kirsty Young on the long-running BBC Radio 4 show doesnât do much to suggest that he has zero interest in music, but also isnât the sort of selection that someone who is pretentious and picky about what they listen to would offer.
In a 2016 interview for the NPR show Fresh Air, Hanks was asked a series of questions about his music taste, and the main question that the actor mused over was what the first record he ever bought was. Instantly, Hanks revealed that he had never purchased singles in his youth, but he recalled the first long-player that he had acquired. âThe first record I actually bought was an LP named Aerie, as in an eagleâs nest, by John Denver,â he told host Terry Gross.
However, Hanks did reveal more about his listening habits growing up, and it wasnât buying records that thrilled him most. âThe radio gave me all the musical satisfaction that I needed,â he confessed, saying that âto have a radio of my own next to my bed where I could go back and forth between my favourite stations at Oakland and San Francisco â that was the bigger deal for me.â
When asked about whether he was the sort of teenager who hid his radio under the pillow and enjoyed late-night listening sessions, he amusingly told the interviewer that his parents were âso disinterested in what was going on in my bedroom that I didnât have to pretend anything. I could stay up as late as I wanted to.â Whether Hanks is still more of a radio guy these days isnât known, but itâs sweet to imagine the actor getting excitable about such a simple pleasure.
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