1970s Memorabilia
Below are our 19 articles in the '1970s memorabilia' category:
Autographs are always collectable but it’s an obvious fact that some are more collectable than others. They’re also more desirable in certain forms than in others. Four different pieces of paper with ...
To some collectors, clothing is the ultimate memorabilia, the feeling of owning garments actually worn by their heroes. They’re willing to pay hefty prices for rare items, too, although many of those ...
As record sales increased in the 1970s so there were more gold and platinum discs awarded. For collectors, this makes them a little easier to find, although there’s still not exactly a glut on the ...
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 association, collectors and ...
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 as Sounds (another British ...
In the 1960s merchandising was largely all about the Beatles who sold items like hotcakes, mostly in the U.S. In the following decade, merchandise was the province of the teen idols, like the Osmonds ...
The late 1960s might have been the golden age of concert poster art but there are plenty of posters from the 1970s that are equally collectable. That’s particularly true for the big names of the ...
To the uninitiated, it might seem hard to credit but there’s a very healthy memorabilia trade in concert tickets, especially unused ones, and backstage passes. In some ways it’s part of the demand ...
Long after his death in 1981 Bob Marley remains the biggest musical star ever to come out of Jamaica. He took the sound of reggae worldwide, and became an iconic figure to millions all over the globe ...
Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke…over a career that’s already lasted more than four decades, David Bowie has put on and cast off personalities like suits of clothes. If not always the ...
Elton John, a big star for well over three decades, is a unique case in rock memorabilia. He’s been periodically getting rid of his own artefacts for almost 20 years now. He’ll regularly sell off his ...
Frank Zappa was one of the most individual figures in American rock music. With wit, sarcasm and great musical skill, he went his own way, well out of the mainstream. First with the Mothers of ...
Glam rock was a genre unto itself starting in 1970 with the emergence of T. Rex as a pop group rather than the airy-fairy hippie duo they’d been before. Wearing androgynous clothes, face heavily ...
He was the Godfather of Soul, and a star for almost half a century. But even godfathers aren't immortal, and after James Brown died in 2006, it would have been reasonable to assume that there ...
Of all the Beatles, John Lennon was the most revered. He was the most iconoclastic of the four, the rebel, who was not only a great singer and songwriter, but also a talented writer and artist. His ...
Without a doubt the biggest rock band of the 1970s, Led Zeppelin created the most popular rock song ever with Stairway to Heaven. The combination of Robert Plant’s high, wailing voice with Jimmy ...
One of the fastest-growing areas of rock memorabilia is material from the punk era. In part this is because it was a very specific movement and those who were part of it are now old enough, and with ...
Apart from making some great country-rock in the 1970s and having one of the biggest-ever selling albums of all times with their Greatest Hits, the Eagles are an object lesson in marketing.
Since ...
Few bands have shown the endurance of the Who. From their beginnings as a Mod band in the 60s they’ve developed and grown with a pair of rock operas (Tommy and Quadrophenia), and survived the deaths ...
