Even as a small child, I was very interested in music and got a lot of pleasure from my brother's record collection. Since about 1982 I started to buy records and CDs from my first self-earned money as a newspaper boy. My focus is to collect all released songs of an artist, not all released LPs or CDs (see Info).

My collection became large very quickly because I had a lot of favorite artists. At first my focus was on Pop music (e.g. by Madonna, George Michael, Simply Red, Swing Out Sister and Wet Wet Wet), then later R&B and Soul (e.g. Whitney Houston, Vesta Williams and Will Downing). Finally, my love for Jazz music developed (e.g. David Benoit, Russ Freeman, Hiromi Uehara, Diana Krall and Jane Monheit).

Since 2009, I have been able to indulge this passion in the form of LP-Reviews, which I write for the german HiFi magazine "LP - Magazin für analoges HiFi & Vinyl Kultur".

I have been running this website as a non-profit project since 1999. Initially, the website was available at www.musik-datenbank.de, later at www.discographies.info. Since 2009, the web address has been music-was-my-first-love.com, inspired by the legendary song by John Miles from 1976.

I had the honour of providing some label scans for the 2009 reissue of the significant album "What Am I Gonna Do" by Gloria Scott, produced by Barry White (Reel Music - 66748-78012-2, Universal Music Special Markets - B0012577-02).

Over the years, personal contacts to some musicians have developed through my collection.