1960s Memorabilia

A lot more 1960s autographs are around than signatures from the 1950s. For collectors that’s a great thing because in many cases it keeps the prices...

The 1960s brought a revolution not only in music but also in clothing – a couple of revolutions, in fact. First there was the new British sense of...

Although the figure varies by country, singles (45 rpm, seven-inch records) and LPs could attain “gold” status depending on how many copies they...

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...

The music press rose properly during the 1960s as popular music grew in popularity especially after 1967, when music began to be taken more...

Music merchandise became big business in the 1960s most particularly in the wake of the Beatles. The decade before Elvis had broken the ice with...

The 1960s, particularly the second half of the decade, was when the rock poster came into its own as an art form. In San Francisco, especially, those...

It was really only in the 1960s that tickets for concerts began to be issued with an organisation in place for people to buy in advance, especially...

Bob Dylan remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic characters for collectors. However, whilst items that give an insight into the man go for...

There are plenty of people who are avid about the blues, and collect CDs or vinyl. But for anyone interested in collecting blues memorabilia,...

The Fillmore – there were two of them with the Fillmore West in San Francisco which was the more famous and East was in Manhattan. Fillmore West was...

Next to the Beatles Jimi Hendrix is the most collectable of the 1960s rock stars. That’s due in part to his untimely early death in 1970, but more...

San Francisco in 1966 and 1967 was a magical place, with new music in the air as bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Country Joe and...

It billed itself as “The Sound of Young America” and the music travelled all over the world, bringing soul to millions. The Tamla Motown label scored...

The Beatles are the Holy Grail for all those who collect or sell rock memorabilia. They were beyond question, the biggest group of the 1960s, and an...

Some bands go in and out of fashion, but the Doors have maintained a constant popularity, even though the band effectively ended in 1971 with the...

Of all the San Francisco bands, the Grateful Dead stand above and apart. They lasted longer than all the others – until 1995, when guitarist and de...

Well over 40 years after they formed the Stones are still rolling, a bigger and more powerful machine than ever, generating millions of pounds each...