The Rock and Roll Public Library

The Rock and Roll Public Library – Mick’s near-legendary collection of books, records, posters, and other pop-culture ephemera is set to go on public display this March.

The collection – as featured on the cover of The Last Post – also includes artwork, instruments, recording gear, stage clothes and original song lyrics from Mick’s time in The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite and – more recently – Carbon/Silicon.

“Here in this room of madness was a kind of archive.. an archive of popular culture across such a broad spectrum from the last fifty years and suddenly a light dawned……. It wasn’t mad..it was ..AMAZING… all that stuff was the greatest library of ideas imaginable and what had been formally and very affectionally known as “the library of a madman” was suddenly becoming “the Rock and Roll Public Library..” suddenly we had this amazing store of knowledge and that this store was part of the band and it’s ideas.”

-Tony James, October 2007

The exhibition will take place at London’s Chelsea Space, from the 18th of March until 18th April.