This is the denim jacket I pretty much lived in between 1986 and 1989, when it got a bit too small. Most patches came from a stall at Basingstoke market.
Portraits of Lee Dorrian in Birmingham after a gig in 1988
Described by 'Hard Rock' organization as the single most important piece of music history through out their humongous dazzling collection of memorabilia , this historic beautiful cherry red Gibson SG was bought by Tony Iommi sometime around 1966-1967 , Tony Iommi was originally using a white fender strat professionally as viewed on his very short stunt with Jethro Tull on the rolling stone film ‘The Rock N Roll circus’ , during the recording sessions of Black Sabbath’s debut album and after tracking ‘Wicked World’ , the bridge pickup failed and since it was really difficult to get any guitar treatment at time Tony Iommi used this spare Gibson SG 1965 special guitar to finish up recording the rest of the album and ever since became his main instrument on the majority of Sabbath’s early albums and tours. The guitar was used on the Black Sabbath albums ‘Black Sabbath’ , ‘Paranoid’ ,’Master Of Reality’,’Vol.4’ and ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ , it can easily be seen on all early 70’s Sabbath videos specifically on Sabbath’s memorable show at ‘California Jam’ 1974.The guitar which was nicked ‘The Monkey’ guitar due to the distinctive and instantly recognizable monkey guitar on front of the guitar was heavily edited by legendary guitar lutheir Martin Birch , he replaced the neck positioned pickup with a Simplux ( a P90 like single coil pickup) and custom wounded the P90 pick up at the bridge position as well.The guitar was donated by Tony Iommi to ‘Hard Rock Café’ organization as seen on ‘Hard Rock Treasures’ DVD and viewed in the picture gallery of this post .The guitar is currently at New York Times Square Hard Rock.
Black Sabbath cartoon book
LIVE ALBUM RECORDED PARIS 1970
Didn’t know which existing category to use for this one!
Led Zep & Cozy Powell out for a pint
Earache records advert featuring Napalm Death 'scum'
Judas Priest colour photos (approx 1970s)
Benny Godflesh in Liverpool 1989
This jacket belongs to Duncan Wilkins, a fan of Napalm Death, a grindcore band formed in Birmingham in the early 80s.
Denim Jacket (1986). Featuring patches from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest & Led Zeppelin.
Front cover of EC Rocker Magazine featuring Black Sabbath
a vintage Black Sabbath badge. 100% unofficial, it's got a nice 'outsider art' feel to it. might have to get a t-shirt made of this one... cheers for donating it Sean!
These were made by Ray Brown – www.raybrownfashion.com Ray Brown specialises in making bespoke items of clothing, mainly used on stage to perform in. In the 80’s, Ray made clothes for many bands including Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. Rob wore these 2 jackets during the ‘Turbo’ album era. This will have been 1985/86 These 2 were also worn for the ‘Locked In’ and ‘Turbo Lover’ promo videos. The tour for this album was the ‘Fuel For Life’ tour.
Napalm Death playing live in 1988 Germany Band members: Mick, Lee, Bill & Shane
Big Bear News (1970). Includes adverts for Sabbath's album release. Other features include Groupie of the Month.
Black Sabbath UK tour programme for the Mob Rules tour which ran from 31/12/81 thru til 15/1/82...
Various formats and releases of the debut album. Different labels and countries etc.