It was May 1995. I'd been out for 2 years but was still very naive about the whole gay thing. Anyway, I was on a plane over to the States for my second summer working over there and was with my friend an 'experienced' Australian gay girl ten years older than me.
It was on that flight that she told me all about kd and Melissa Etheridge. She had Shadowland in her personal stereo and we shared the headphones and listened to it for most of the flight over.
A very special flight indeed.
While I was out there I bought all I could find - Ingenue was my first followed by AYCE.