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SHOCKING: On reflection it s very uncool readers scrapbooks of pop fandom - What They Never Told You

‘I was obsessed’ … Steve Thorne's Roxy Music scrapbook.
‘I was obsessed’ … Steve Thorne's Roxy Music scrapbook. Photograph: Guardian Community

‘I heard Roxy Music at a Scouts gathering and was hooked’

I was obsessed with Roxy Music as a teenager. I heard their first two albums at a Scouts gathering and was hooked. Every week, I would buy the maagzines Sounds, NME and Melody Maker if they had any Roxy-related articles or photos, and take my scissors to them for the scrapbook [pictured above]. I eventually saw them at Birmingham Odeon in 1974 and still have the pristine programme and ticket stub. I never imagined that many years later I would be photographing them and Bryan solo for Getty. Looking through the book brings back many happy memories of my youth. Steve Thorne, 64, Warwick

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