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Bernice Saltzer is a former journalist turned PR person (or poacher turned gamekeeper as she likes to put it). She is older than she cares to think and if anyone asks her about she’ll just say she’s “older than Kylie but younger than Madonna.” She likes to cook, write and complain – particularly when she’s got right on her side. Oh yes, and she loves to go on holiday which she thinks was the best bit about her journalism career – the free travel. sortedpr.com @sortedpr   Do you remember the first time?: My Sweet Lord - George Harrison  ...

Phil Dunn is 49 and has been collecting vinyl for 45 (R.P.M.!) years. Raised in the sunny seaside resort of Seaton Carew, Phil's passion for vinyl is reflected in the amount of CD's he owns (14) and the amount of songs on his iPod (Zero). He does however have a lifetime's work of vinyl with over 11,000 UK 45's and nearly 4000 Albums spanning from 1962 to the present day. After being bought an Elizabethan Astronaut Record Player in Bright Orange for Xmas 1969, his obsessional purchasing of Singles is almost as fervent as his love for the mighty Hartlepool...

Ian Ravendale belongs to a secret society of immortals patiently waiting for a man on a flaming pie to fly through his window. He lives in a Gothic mansion that he shares with 6,000 albums, 3,000 books and magazines at least half of which are about music and 10,000 comics none of which are about music, particularly the dreadful Marvel mag with Kiss in it. He's been writing about music since before his last regeneration for Sounds, Kerrang, Classic Rock, Vive Le Rock, AOR, The Word, Record Collector, Fireworks. Classic Pop, Iron Fist and American Songwriter but his Mam says...