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My Music Memorabilia Collection of One Item
Minimalism, digitisation and burglarising have wreaked havoc on my music memorabilia
Pierce McIntyre asked the question, “What’s in your music memorabilia collection?”
“Not much,” I thought to myself.
And then, Katemiya asked me the same question. I looked up at the photo of the Beatles on my wall for inspiration and, lo, I was inspired.
The photo is of the Beatles arriving in Barcelona. As part of their 1965 European tour, the four lads from Liverpool performed at the Plaza de Toros Monumental in Barcelona on 3 July. A couple of friends gave me the picture when I moved into my apartment in Barcelona, and it’s been on my wall ever since.
This copy of a photo is now my only physical item of music memorabilia. Well, there’s also this rubbish Bluetooth speaker that can’t hold a battery charge and doesn’t even have a brand name. And yes, that’s dust on top of the speaker.
So, how does a top writer in “music”, a fill-in presenter on Australia’s finest community radio station and a person who can identify 90s pop songs in under…
