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Read’s records under the hammer
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 30 November 2009
The vinyl and music memorabilia collection of one-time Radio 1 DJ Mike Read will go up for auction later today as the radio man seeks to raise funds to pay the tax man after going bankrupt earlier this year.
The collection, which was on show at the Chiswick Auction House in West London yesterday, includes some 120,000 vinyl records, including master discs of The Jam’s ‘Going Underground’ and The Clash’s ‘London Calling’, over 100 Motown demos and several records signed by the artists, including ones from Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Cliff Richard. The collection has been valued at around a million, and is offered as a whole or in parts.
Meanwhile, Read is busying himself promoting not the sale of his old records, but the sale of his new one, a charity single he has co-penned and recorded with fellow former DJs David Hamilton and Ed Stewart. ‘My Christmas Card To You’ is being released in aid of charity rather than Read’s creditors, with all monies going to The Shooting Star Children’s Hospice.
