Tom Fontaine is one of the world’s most respected collectors and historians of popular culture, and the founder of Rare MAE Investments. His collection spans more than half a century
The Beatles Artifacts
Before 1966, The Beatles were the biggest band in the world, but they were the biggest pop-rock band in the world. Until that year, The Beatles had yet to establish
In not much more than a decade, The Beatles managed to write around 230 songs, depending on who you ask. That’s roughly 21 a year. Considering that they now have
What’s the wildest rock and roll injury story you can remember?Bob Dylan crashing his motorbike, Patti Smith breaking her neck onstage in 1977, Pete Townshend impaling his hand on his
In conjunction with Paul McCartney’s new documentary, Paul McCartney: Man On The Run, getting its TV premiere on Amazon’s Prime
The first was, of course, The Beatles; the four Merseyside ‘Mop Tops’ who had graduated from being teenage skiffle obsessives
In the shadow of their enormous, unprecedented success story, it is easy to forget that The Beatles were, at their
Obscurity is a word that does not appear in the index of The Beatles; their instant popularity was so overwhelming,
The world was a darker place before The Beatles announced themselves in the tender years of the 1960s. As the
In the grand history of rock and roll, there has never been someone more willing to take the piss out
