It has been a fun few weeks meeting some of the stars of my book Legends On Tour - The Pop Package Tours Of The 1960s. That most affable of Walker Brothers, drummer Gary, and legendary DJ and all round good egg Dave Cash joined me recently to meet one of the other important names from Legends, Steve Mann, at his place of work... no less than the offices of Private Eye! After a quick adjournment to the pub we set our sights on former Settlers singer Cindy Kent who hosts a regular afternoon show on the Christian Premier radio station in nearby Victoria. Cindy, however, was enjoying an afternoon off so that little treat will have to hold for another day. Those of you who have already immersed yourself in Legends will know that Steve was lucky enough to interview legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Steve Marriott and Roy Orbison when they were doing the rounds of UK cinemas back in the swinging sixties. So pencil in Saturday June 7 in your diaries. Steve will be joining me and Gary Walker as guests on Dave Cash's Saturday evening show on BBC Radio Kent, broadcasting from Tunbridge Wells to talk about those legends of Legends. Evening newspapers in Carlisle, Doncaster and Northampton have all carried stories from Legends over the past few weeks, turning the spotlight on some of the 60s pop supershows that hit their towns. Some are still posted on the net, so why not have some fun tracking them down? As the title suggests, Legends looks back at the great small hall tours of the 1960s when top Americans like Jimi Hendrix, Roy Orbison, The Walker Brothers and Gene Pitney brushed shoulders with the cream of England's finest, from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Small Faces, through to Cat Stevens and Engelbert. Legends has been featured on television and radio shows as well as regional newspapers up and down the country - further evidence, if any were needed, of the world's continued love affair with 1960s music. The Word magazine and UniVibes international Jimi Hendrix fanzine have also published pictures and articles from Legends. By the way, that's me, above third right, grinning away at a book signing at The Book Boyz store in Kingsmead, Farnborough, Hampshire. They have signed copies of Legends in stock, as do Maher the bookseller in the Hart shopping centre in Fleet, Hants, and Waterstones in the Main Square shopping mall in Camberley. I'm delighted that Waterstones stores are stocking Legends up and down the country and of course it is also available on the usual internet sites. Legends is unusual in featuring fan memories alongside those of the 21 pop stars interviewed to paint a picture of what those early tours were like. Dozens of previously unpublished photographs bring those stories to life as we turn back four decades to the days when smaller towns like Aldershot were on the rock 'n' roll map alongside the big cities like London, Liverpool and Glasgow. Imagine what it was like for those 1960s teenagers when The Beatles turned up in town to play their local cinema. In fact, don't just imagine. Take a nostalgic peak through this site...