plenty of logos (Zeppelin, Floyd, AC/DC etc), but my masterpiece was a painstaking reproduction of this... took me bloody ages!

Yeah; that's right. Be jealous of me and my Marillion coat.

I found it at the bottom of a wardrobe last year while in the throes of moving house hence why it's so screwed up and the house is such a tip.

This was its final outing before being consigned to the great recycling bin in the sky.

I did have a bag with lots logos on it too.

Sometimes I wonder why I was such a hit with the ladies when younger. And then I remember the coat. And the bag.

Smokin'...

and rightly so. Amazing.

It was a nationwide trend Andy and I had an Ultravox album on my rucksack.
I had to tell people what it was though because it was so badly done.

Distinguished Coat Medal.

Oh Dear. What I remember was that as we got 'older' our tastes would change and more layers of paint would have to be applied. The likes of Quo would get painted out to be replaced by an Iron Maiden Eddie. Then the next term he would disappear under a layer of black as a homage to Judas Priest's 'British Steel' emerged.

By the time we got to A levels the flaps of these bags were almost a centimetre think with paint and totally rigid. One badly-timed swing from your shoulder and you could knock someone's teeth out with a heavy corner.

But I did have this picture of Frank on my Rough Book, tucked casually under my arm. Thought I was a real cool dude (correct of course...) but have never, to this day, heard anything from that album.

I just wrote the band names on the inside of my ring binders, and occasional snatches of lyrics. However I do recall painting Therapy?'s triangular face logo on my pencil case with tippex.

However during an early rebellious jazz phase I did apply the tippex to the desk in my biology GCSE class to render the name John Coltrane onto it. The teacher later saw it and assumed that a pupil named John Coltrane had written it and demanded to know if anyone knew someone of such a name. The perfect crime.

At my first school in North Wales those of us who did Technical Drawing had portfolios made of two sheets of ply taped along one edge and held shut with the clips we used to hold paper to drawing boards. These were A3 sized and provided a huge flat surface for drawing on. I went with Iron Maiden and Twisted Sister logos on each side, surrounded by as many smaller logos as I could fit on.

As if that wasn't enough, when I changed schools after moving to Chesterfield I cam across this innovation: canvas bags as previously described but with the addition of sheets of wood attached underneath the flap which gave a nice flat surface for painting on. Metal/prog/rock artists were the decoration of choice.

Then, after a chance encounter with a Sisters of Mercy 12 inch (I think it was Temple of Love")at a birthday party I renounced all things rock and decided that the only thing to do was paint the Balaam and the Angel logo on the back of a German army shirt, the one with the little flag on the sleeve.

After that I painted no more though I always wanted a biker jacket with a New Model Army album cover painted on the back.

to have a leather jacket with the Now That's What I Call Music logo on it. Possibly Now 5 cover with the pig.

A lad at our school (81-85) did a roaring trade in painting the flaps and it was obilgatory if one was into music to have one's flap painted. I had a rather snazzy logo of The Jam with the three arrows from the Precious/Town called Malice single. One lad had A Flock of Seagulls (and the haircut to match). Didn't get 'the Flock' myself...