A rather nice and well designed promo poster for the umpteenth Who best...

A small club show in LA. So up and personal, you could see the lines on David Johanssen’s face. Still a great frontman though, and with the Dolls, he’s far better than his Poindexter cabaret...

EMI promo posters for the 2004 reissue of Diamond Dogs. The original US version showed the dog’s genitals. It was quickly removed from the market and is now very rare. In 2003, a copy sold for $3500 on...

A few of the huge number of Who articles in the collection. These are from 1978 and cover the release of Who Are You, the forthcoming Quadrophenia movie and their return to lives show – all just before the death of...

A signed copy of the magnificent and unique Julian Cope’s biography of the Teardrop Explodes, “Head”. I met him twice, the last time in Cardiff, Wales when he was on the way to see the stone age circle at Avebury. One of a...

I love 8 Track players. This is a $5 flea market find. It’s a 1970’s Soundesign Super 8 and still works. The body splits into two separate speakers for a “stereo” effect....

One of a number of original Zeppelin black and white 8×10″s I’ve picked up in Northern California. This one came as part of a group of 10, most of which are from the Oakland ’77 show. I’ll post the others over time, along with an original poster from the...

One of several newspapers I have that cover the shooting of John Lennon and its...

The sleeve was designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, based on a drawing by Paul McCartney. It was art directed by 60’s icon, Robert Fraser and the whole cover project cost $3000. I was given it by EMI Records not long after it was released for the first time on CD. A special item in...

I feel asleep –...

We invited Brit pop band Supergrass to play in the courtyard at the Virgin Megastore on Sunset Blvd to promote their fifth record, the cunningly named Road to Rouen. It was so hot that we could see the guys going redder and redder throughout the performance and sent staff to get sunscreen....

An interesting Q&A session with Paul Simon that I attended courtesy of WEA. He discussed the then about to be released Rhythm of the Saints record and how it was essentially going even deeper into African music and culture than the previous mega-successful album,...

Troubadour, raconteur and all round good guy, Americana artist Jim Lauderdale at the Magfest on the Suwannee River with my lady. If you get the chance to see him, don’t...

Blur ticket from the landmark Mile End Stadium show, London, England on June 17, 1995 on the Parklife Tour. It was a good show although I remember an enormous plastic hamburger suspended above the stage that put me slightly on...

  An original and extremely rare Van Halen shirt that I got in 1982 via a VH roadie from Newcastle . This me wearing it and about to see Halen at the Staples in 2006. Fairly sure it was the only one in the arena. Amazed that it still fit...

UK and Greg Lake on consecutive nights in San Francisco with my friend, Dax. Both good although Greg overdid it on the backing tracks. We also had a great chat, over breakfast, with John...

Ex Manfred Paul Jones and his boys at Sunderland Poly! Whey...

Two Pete’s are always better than...

Quite an amazing evening. I look like the Cheshire Cat. True rock n’ roll royalty. I didn’t know until afterwards, but Roger Q pointed out that the bloke behind my horrifically tied back hair is snooker player Jimmy...

This was the only show I ever saw with my Dad. He was a good singer and we’ve sung together many times, especially when we were both in the choir. We sung at Durham Cathedral and York Minster among various other rather amazing “venues”. He really supported me when I decided...