Museum archivists are looking for old concert tickets from when some of the biggest music stars played in Leeds.
They will form part of a collection capturing generations of musical memories to build a permanent record of the city's most iconic gigs.
Among tickets being sought are those for Jimi Hendrix's gig at The Odeon on 5 April 1967.
Museum staff said each ticket represented a "unique memory" for people who had attended the concerts.
Hundreds of tickets have already been collected for the archive including those for when The Beatles played at the Odeon Theatre on The Headrow in 1963.
The concert was the third time the foursome had performed in Leeds but this did not dampen the enthusiasm of fans who gathered in their thousands outside the venue to try and get a glimpse of their idols.
Black and white images in the archive capture the excitement of the lucky ones who made it inside to watch the band perform.
Tickets Mon Amour! Why we can’t bear to throw them away
The physical ticket – to a gig or a play or a comedy show or a sporting event – is a vanishing entity.
The Beatles at Shea Stadium, New York. Photograph: Courtesy of the writer and owner Mimi Weinberg
It has been, or at least is being, replaced by the e-ticket conveniently mailed to your inbox (a state of affairs that curiously doesn’t seem to have negated the need for a handling charge), or the QR code, swiftly scanned on your phone. (The Guardian)
Jo Woodworth’s Kate Bush ticket.
Something will be lost when physical tickets vanish, at least for the people who kept them as reminders: a small, flimsy portal into the pleasurable past. A ticket doesn’t even have to stay intact to exude a nostalgic pull.
Steve Williams’s fateful unused ticket to see Nirvana, tells to The Guardian: "I have kept a ticket of a Nirvana concert that was dated 6 April 1994, the day after Kurt Cobain took his own life. I was set to go with a group of mates and remember how excited we were. Some chose to return the tickets for a refund, but I couldn’t do that. I wanted to keep the ticket."
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