I think if I bought something I'd have to give it right back to him. I hope he's not going to be in attendance. It would be a difficult thing to have to watch. Like selling your children.

and I feel for his situation but in a perverse way, this stuff is currently locked up and only enjoyed by very few people.

If it were a painting, potentially some museum would be spending public money to save it for the UK public. This lot could create a fantastic museum if only it were bought as a collection. If only.

of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax"?

he could still have had a larger record collection than most (even within the Massive) and he wouldn't have gone bankrupt.

When John Peel died, didn't the British Library/National Sound archive express an interest in buying his record collection?

I can't imagine how you can have a collection of that size.

for 40 years!!!

120,000 records isn't a collection. It's a folly.

(OK: possibly it was investment and probably it's an obsession but "folly" is the word that seems most apt.)

We've covered this before on these very pages

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/how-bad-must-mike-reade-feel

(look for the "stop that messing about at the back" type missive from the auctioneers, near the end)

I hope MR gets a good price altho I'll be a bit surprised if it's a six-figure sum.

Anyone going along?

Does not give any details in the link above. Is it individual records, several job lots or just the whole collection in one?

I'd gladly give it to him on condition that he stopped gassing on about Cliff bloody Richard.

which could do with some work?

Or would that be illegal for some reason?

Even accepting that many were 'freebies' it does seem a ridiculous number of anything to have.
Although I could count the number of times I heard him on two hands, it does beg the question....why weren't his selections on the radio a bit more dynamic?

Mr Hepworth Or Mr Ellen?

And I can't believe Mike Read would knowingly have any Punk records would he?

Secondly the all time classical pieces for example the Sergeant Pepper Album...

does that mean he has THE acetate or something? i mean yeah maybe he has. but that sentence/phrase makes no sense whatsoever otherwise. i mean even macca's own copy can't be worth much surely.

was raised can't see why so many people take the opportunity to crow about someone else's misfortune. MR seems a fairly innocuous character certainly not worthy some of the "off" comments and schadenfreude bandied about. I can't blame him for trying to get himself out of a hole the only way he can. He's lucky in these hard times to have assets that are worth something whatever sum they raise in the end.

Gotta agree with you there Chris, give the guya break.

I'm not a fan of Mr Read mind you, unlike this scary episode....

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he was never going to listen to them all was he?

Proper Radio 1 breakfast show jock, loved him, hope he's ok.

"Mike Read, Mike Read 275 and 285,
Mike Read, Mike Read National Radio 1"