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Thirty rock gig T-shirts go under the hammer at Christies New York this month. They feature the mega-bands of the sixties and seventies: The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, the Beatles, the Doors, The Who and many others.
The T-shirt worn by a rock journalist to the 1967 Monterey Pups rock concert is expected to fetch an astonishing $4000 (£2000) not bad for a ten dollar initial investment! All the shirts on auction were featured in the Johan Kugelberg book “What goes around comes around: Vintage Rock T-shirts”.
As an example, a long-sleeved jumper that was created to promote the Stones’ 1973 album “Goats Head Soup” is expected to reach at least $4500 - only about a dozen of the tops were ever produced, making them highly collectable. And a top that was created to celebrate John Lennon’s Christmas hit “Happy Xmas - War Is Over” has a reserve price of $2000 - meaning that some of the shirts, created to be worn and thrown away, have outlasted the rock legends they celebrate.
Mick Jagger photograph by Sean Dockery, used under a creative commons attribution licence
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