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...

I really like the Carpenters. Their song writing is exquisite. I bought this set of 45’s featuring cover versions because it included Redd Kross’ sublime version of Yesterday Once...

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...

Lovely “non” story about Yes not playing more dates that year. Not riveting editorial but some great photos of pre-Fragile/ Rick Wakeman Yes....

Hipgnosis’ poster that came with Wings’ Venus and Mars album – one of my absolute favorite records of all time. The Venus and Mars sleeve design won UK trade mag Music Week’s Best Sleeve of 1975 award. Quite right...

This is a sweat shirt I bought at a Yes show in Newcastle in 1980. I’d seen them a couple of times before with the classic line-up and, being the purist I was, I had to push myself to go and see the new lineup featuring Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes of Buggles fame. It was a strange show. The...

Another piece of record label POS I scrounged from Sunderland’s Spinning Disc one day after school. If you’re a Brit, you have to love the Quo. It’s the law. And I...

What a night. I was in LA on business for one night and totally by coincidence, Mr Fripp and co were playing at the Orpheum. The show was nothing short of brilliant, with Tony Levin on bass and three drummers, one of them being Porcupine Tree’s Gavin Harrison. They played a lot of Red and...

    A very rare Starz t-shirt that I think I got from a friend in Newcastle back around 1981.    ...

Call sheet from one of the many Leppard shows I’ve attended. Myself and my pal Woody got mistaken for band members. Me – for Joe Elliot, and him for Steve Clark who had died about 15 years...

This so easily could have been me circa ’78 or ’79. The Rush interview actually takes place in Newcastle...

The poster that came with Wings Over America. Note the projection of Wolverine behind Joe English that was part of the montage they used for Magnito and Titanium Man....

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....

A meet and greet with Robert Plant before the Greek Theater show in LA’s beautiful Griffith...

Virgin bag from the London Kings Road store. Quite minimalist for the...

White Stripes repro poster from Mojo...

  Full page ad from the NME promoting Bryan’s first solo release. It reached #5 in the...

A signed copy of Motley Crue’s Dr Feelgood from the signing they did at the Oxford St...

A really great promo item for Cheap Trick’s Music for Hangovers record. I’ve been tempted to use the Alka Seltzer many times but have resisted in the name of rock n’...