On 16 January 1980 Paul McCartney arrived in Tokyo for a sold out Wings tour. He never left the airport. Arrested for cannabis possession, he spent nine days in a Japanese detention centre and was deported. A quietly pivotal moment in rock history.

CREEM Magazine’s Stars Cars feature followed rock stars into the 1980s and quietly took the mickey out of all of them. Rolls Royces Ferraris and Ford Broncos became props in a very Detroit joke about fame.

In July 1989, Pink Floyd performed a free concert on a floating stage in Venice. Watched by 200,000 people and broadcast worldwide, the event sparked outrage over damage, waste, and planning failures, leading to the resignation of the mayor and city council.