Here are some of the posters, album covers, autographs, ticket stubs and other random bits of music memorabilia I had up on my bedroom walls from 1983 to around 1988. Autographs below include Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Go West, Gene Loves Jezebel, Level 42, King, Julian Cope, Ten Ten, Peter Murphy and General Public. (Sadly, I only know where the album covers are...

Less of a “Where are they now?” story and more of a “Here they are now!” tale, Crowded House re-formed (sadly, minus the late Paul Hester) to release the album Intriguer in 2010. Here’s how the two remaining original members, Nick Seymour and the amazing Neil Finn, looked in a couple of the band’s 2010 promo photos: Neil on far...

I recently found an old friend, Iskandar, and I asked him if I could use a fabulous pic I took of of him mugging with Crowded House drummer Paul Hester in San Francisco — the day we took Paul shopping in the Haight. As Iskandar said I could post this photo, I thought I’d also run it on billboards around the world to make a bit more of a splash. Check it...

Here’s the late, great Paul Hester on Haight. (That’s Haight Street in San Francisco for any non-hippies out there — I think this was at the northeast corner of Haight at Shrader.) Two friends and I took the Crowded House drummer shopping in the area one afternoon in 1987 and had a blast. There are other photos from this day — like one of us...

Just over a year after I’d last seen (and seen and seen and seen) Crowded House in California, we were both in the same place again — halfway across the world. I think they were a little surprised to see me (and my two friends, who had met them the year before in LA). We also got to go to the listening party ahead of the release of Temple Of Low Men ,...

When: February 21 and April 9, 1987 Where: The Berkeley Square, Berkeley, California & Wolfgang’s, San Francisco And: My friends and I were lucky enough to spend a lot of time seeing the band. In addition to the actual concerts themselves, we also caught soundchecks, hung out after the show, went to a local radio station appearance, got to ride on their...

Here’s the fabulous, much-missed Paul Hester, onstage with Nick — showing some food that either someone had thrown on stage or that came from the dressing room. (At the Berkeley show, he shared the backstage catering tray with the audience!) Doing some role-reversal stuff — away from the drums and on the guitar! And “dancing” with me...