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I have a collection of about a hundred vinyl albums. I have been quoted some decent prices for some of them. The ones I expected to be valued highly were low, but a few like Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart was quoted in the hundreds. Sometimes I feel like selling, but have held on to...

I worked with a Beatles fan years ago and he had all their singles and albums, in fact he was obsessed with them. Anyway we ribbed him constantly and he took it fairly well until one day he lost the plot. One of the lads said as a joke " Abba are a bigger band than the Beatles and have a bigger...

In my vinyl collection I have Script For A Jesters Tear. The sleeve cover is a work of art.

I borrowed my mates sister the Bad Company album Straight Shooter some years back. I made the mistake of saying " no rush give it back in a month or two. " A year later I asked for it's return to be told she couldn't find it as she had moved house. I wasn't pleased but she seemed genuinely upset...

Ogdens Nut Gone Flake early Small Faces album, iconic cover sleeve. I had it years ago but lent it out and never seen it again. Lesson learnt, only lend out stuff you can guarantee you will get back !

Steve Marriot is the main singer for me, to me he was the Small Faces.

I don't like saying McCartney isn't to music that he once was but I just don't think he's done anything worthy for years. Venus and Mars and Band On The Run I really liked, but can't think of any decent music from him for a long time. Him and Lennon are legends though and deserve all the...

I said to a Paul McCartney fan in the pub once that Paul hadn't done anything good since Wings. And added in fact his best work was in the Beatles. He got the hump and never spoke to me again for about a year !

You aren't a fan then?

As it was my son's birthday coming up I treated him to a ticket to see the Who as I was going with a few people. I told him he was going to see one of the best bands of all time. Anyway he told me a couple of years later he didn't like them, and just went along as I had bought him a ticket. I...

They were on at Monsters Of Rock and they came across as a pop band. But the crowd went wild for them, then again that could have been the booze and drugs !

Coldplay seem to get a lot of stick. My lad loves them, and me personally I reckon they are okay. Otis is an Elbow fan and they are another band that divide opinion !

A mate of mine said U2 are shit after I chose an album of theirs as a favourite of mine. I agree that they probably are a Marmite band, but I've seen them play live twice and they were great. I dislike Def Leppard but that's my opinion after watching them once, but they are a popular rock band...

When I worked on the railway one of my fellow workers had a brother who worked in a morgue. As we sat to eat our sarnies at lunch break, he loved to tell us stories of his brothers job cutting up bodies etc. He could never understand why 10 of his workmates would walk away and eat far from him !

Got best of The Small Faces on now. Loved that band as a youngster and still reckon they were underrated. Made some great records that still sound fresh and awesome.

Came back in from window cleaning today and put on the Greatest Hits of INXS. It's been in my CD collection for months unplayed, so thought I'd give it a listen. Never been a big fan but there are some good tracks on it. A charity shop purchase, and yes I now reckon they were a good band. Not...

On BBC 4 now there's a blind bloke who is a climber. Mega respect to him as I've done a bit of rock climbing in the past myself along with hill walking, and it can be scary even with good eye sight. He's going to climb The Old Man Of Hoy in Scotland and I bet he will do it.

I get that all the time and have for years. I think of someone I haven't seen for a long time and I see them the next day. A song pops into my head randomly, I turn the radio on and that song is playing. What it's all about and is there an explanation ? It freaked me out at first but now I...

I don't know if you've heard of Geoff Thompson, the Coventry ex doorman ? Well while labouring at a Coventry factory, he would spend his spare time writing about his experiences on the door of pubs and clubs, and add his time growing up in Walsgrave. I lived by him so knew him fairly well...

Didn't Ken Dodd stash his cash under the bed ? Said he never trusted banks. I saw him in concert at Walsgrave Club and he joked at this story.