1990s Memorabilia

The desire to have someone’s signature never seems to go away, whether it’s on a scrap of paper, a CD cover, or wherever – even on a guitar. But...

Clothing items from the Beatles, Elvis and even David Cassidy are all very collectable, some of them going for quite staggering prices at auction. Of...

By the 1990s with CDs replacing vinyl, the music industry was very happy. Everything was selling like hot cakes and they were enjoying a golden age....

A collectable instrument becomes even more collectable when it was once owned by a famous musician. The price can soar very high indeed. It’s...

There’d been a dearth of serious music journalism during the 1980s with only The Face peeking above the parapets, and even that wasn’t all music. But...

You might not have been able to find the wide range of merchandise for 90s stars that had been available in the 1960s and 1970s, but it was still...

For the vast majority of acts from the 1990s, posters are very disposable artefacts. That’s most definitely true of the big pop acts and for many of...

What kind of demand is there for the backstage passes and concert tickets of the 1990s? To be honest it’s not large, but it does exist, although, as...

Britney Spears shot from nowhere to become one of the biggest pop idols of the 1990s, notching up an impressive string of hit singles and albums....

From its origins in the parties and parks of the Bronx, New York in the late 1970s, hip-hop has grown to be a significant global musical style....

One of the great modern divas and a woman who could end up with more American number one hits than the Beatles, Mariah Carey burst out of the blocks...

They became the biggest hit of Britpop, arriving in 1993 and still going strong, in spite of some personnel changes and animosity of many kinds...

REM are quite possibly the biggest rock band to come out of America in the 1980s, developing into a huge stadium act through the 1990s and into the...

Britain has produced many pop stars, but in recent years none has been bigger than Robbie Williams. Take That were huge in the 1990s, which helped to...

The bands from Seattle like Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam and Nirvana made their biggest impact in the 1990s, but had already been playing for a...

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...

One of the biggest rock bands of the 1980s, 90s and beyond, Ireland’s U2 have become a brand, and the band’s singer, Bono, has evolved into a major...