His brimming collection is worth around £20,000.
If you time-travelled back to the late eighties or early nineties, you’d find Dave Watson tucked away in a little record shop on aArmed with a folded-up list in his pocket, Dave would raid record fairs, speak to dealers and traders, rifle throughshops and call anyone and everyone he could think of, trying to collect every UK number one single since the chart began in 1952.
Dave tells Metro.co.uk: ‘Back in Christmas 1987 I was bought a present by someone – it was the Guinness Book of Hit Singles. ‘The next year in 1988 I was in a record shop and I saw the number one single there at the time – Asward’s Don’t Turn Around – and I bought it. Then I made the decision to collect them all and it went from there.’Neither eBay nor ITunes were around yet, just Dave’s determination and love of ‘the chase’.
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