I remember when RotJ came out, was 8 at the time. First I read some articles about it in the Swedish popcult-magazine OKEJ. Some time later my nephew had seen it and had gotten the soundtrack from his dad. He told about the movie in great detail showing the photos in the inlay poster, and the music was really getting to me- as had the E.T. dito done one year earlier. That xmas I got that cassette - book thingie of RotJ, and the fandom was set in motion.
However, in october '84 I finally got to see SW in monochrome full length glory, and I was stuck! :)