The quite extraordinary album of autographs collected by Mike Ormerod during his period as a DJ for the Mecca Group, this unbelievable album is full of autographs including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Small Faces, The Who, The Drifters, The Searchers, The Animals, The Supremes, The Moody Blues, Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, The Merseybeats, Manfred Mann, Lulu, Joe Cocker, The Kinks, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, The Troggs, Patty LaBelle & The Blue Belles, Wilson Pickett, The Walker Brothers, The Drifters, Petula Clark, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, The Everly Brothers, and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders to name a few. The second half of the album is full of stars of stage and screen including cast members of Coronation Street, the cast of a stage production of Les Misérables, and other noted actors and actresses of the last fifty years.

The album is presented with a letter from Mike Ormerod confirming that every single autograph and set of autographs were obtained personally by him directly from the act or acts.

Provenance: The Mike Ormerod Autograph Collection. This particular album featured on an episode of BBC One's The Antiques Roadshow discussing its rarity and importance.

Further to a discussion with Mrs Ormerod (13.09.24) regarding the authenticity of the autographs she states very clearly that:

Mike was like a dog with a bone when he was getting the autograph he would wait for hours to obtain autographs and would never give up. In the 60’s he saw the Beatles at 3 venues which included The King Georges Hall in Blackburn and ABC Cinema in Wigan as well as one other venue possibly Manchester, he would not have left without signatures.

He had a ‘pal’ named Ron who was a promoter for many of the groups in the 60’s and it was Ron that got Mike into many venues. Mike would never buy autographs because the excitement for him was meeting the stars.

Mike spent a lifetime collecting autographs and it would be fair to say he had a specialist level of knowledge.