Neal Augenstein, wtop.com
Nathan Hager, wtop.com

WASHINGTON - Norio Ohga, a true music pioneer, has died.

Doesn't sound familiar? He's the Sony president credited with developing the compact disc as we know it.

As a company vice-president, he insisted on a 74-minute standard for CDs, rather than an even 60 minutes, so it would be long enough to play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

But the first album released on the CD wasn't of classical music, it was Bill Joel's "52nd Street."

His passing prompted Nathan to create a twitter hashtag:

It started to catch on, and we asked you to tell us what the first CD you every bought was. Below is a collection of your tweets, and don't forget to tell us your first CD by tagging your tweets with #1stcdyoueverbought.

(Copyright 2011 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)

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