Rock Music Paraphernalia

Chris Nickson's Guide to Rock Memorabilia...

Music memorabilia has become a huge business. Guitars, clothes and other items owned by famous - and sometimes even not so famous - musicians sell at auction for thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of pounds.

January's Most Popular Articles...

1970s Magazines: The 1970s brought a real growth in the music press. The stalwarts of the 60s continued – Melody Maker, NME, Rolling Stone – but they were joined by a number of others, such… [192 views in Jan]
Take That Memorabilia: Take That are the rarest of phenomena, a boy band that achieved huge stardom, broke up, and managed to come back from the dead ten years later to take a second… [160 views in Jan]
1970s Instruments: Perhaps even more than the 1960s, the 1970s was the era of the guitar hero; it was the central instrument of rock, and those who played it superbly were idolised. By… [154 views in Jan]
1960s Instruments: Rock exploded in the 1960s in the wake of the global success of the Beatles. Instead of solo singers, groups became the important thing, and a generation of youths were… [138 views in Jan]
Heavy Metal Memorabilia: One genre that’s never gone out of style is heavy metal (and its very close cousin hard rock). If anything, the 1980s was its high point, from bands like AC/DC,… [54 views in Jan]
The Monkees Memorabilia: Hey, hey - they were the Monkees, and they were the first of the manufactured groups, a phenomenon that’s become far more common in recent decades. Along with… [38 views in Jan]