Oasis, My Bloody Valentine Collectibles for Sale

Alan McGee attends the O2 Wireless Festival in London.

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Creation Records co-founder Alan McGee, who helped set Britpop in motion with the Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis, My Bloody Valentine and many other bands, is selling his vast collection of memorabilia. The trove includes records, photos, periodicals, artwork, a letter from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and more.

About 100 lots of McGee's possessions will be auctioned Saturday, and the former record label boss says there's plenty more to come. "I'm just clearing all this rock & roll rubbish from my house," said McGee, who is now devoted to film and writing projects. "I've no real interest in the past and have sort of moved on from the music scene."  

McGee's items will be part of a larger auction of "Madchester" memorabilia, including an early Oasis demo tape, a painting by Stone Roses guitarist John Squire and a piece of the dance floor from the Hacienda nightclub. The auction will also feature a lock of hair and a dental crown belonging to Elvis Presley.  

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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