Gigging in the North East 1965-1972. A personal perspective by Roger Smith
Iberia Airways flight number IB504 en route from Palma, Mallorca to London Heathrow on 5th March 1973 never reached its destination. It collided with another plane over France and exploded in midair killing all the crew and passengers. One of…
I finally got around to reading ‘Rock Roadie’ by Tappy Wright (mentioned in my earlier blog – Who Killed Jimi Hendrix?). There’s some interesting ‘insider’ stuff in there about the music scene from the early days of The Animals in…
If you’ve stumbled upon Ready Steady Gone via Google and you’ve got as far as this page, there’s a strong probability that you’ve got more than just a passing interest in the north east music life of the sixties. If…
Many people have tried to piece together the events in Jimi Hendrix’s life on 17th September and the early hours of 18th September 1970, the period leading up to the discovery of his body in a London hotel room. Officially,…
There’s lots of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll in the autobiography of Geoff Docherty about his life as a promoter in the late sixties and seventies. And quite a bit of violence chucked in too. When I visited the…
