This is a collection of articles from the influential-at-the-time No Depression mag. I learned a lot from those...

It’s badly written but still a good read for anyone from the North East of England. Lots of stories about how he got bands like Led Zeppelin and The Who to play in Sunderland and Newcastle. Docherty is also the guy who brought Free to Sunderland where they originally broke, and are still...

  Signed copy of the Kiss book, The Early...

This is a great program I picked up at a Glam exhibition at Liverpool’s Tate. It was an excellent installation featuring a variety of media and a great soundtrack. The point was that the Glam movement was driven by the working class as a form of escapism from bad economic times. Slade were a...

Barney Hoskyns’ book on the glam scene. The term was coined in the UK. In the US it was referred to more often as the glitter scene, distancing the likes of the New York Dolls from Gary Glitter and Sweet....

This is a special item for me. By the time I was 11 in 1975, I was absolutely Who-crazy. I used to hang out in a music gear store in Sunderland. I think it was called White’s, but may be wrong. I must have read it from cover to cover three times over before asking my mam if she’d buy it for...