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NOW here's a football team to be reckoned with.

I can't remember the year, but I was proud to turn out for Gary Newbon's Central TV All Stars.

And what a line-up!

Among the soccer star legends here are Tony Want, Ron Atkinson, Ron Wylie and Jimmy Greaves!

You'll also spot Gary in his suit and trademark glasses. He's the manager, of course.

And, yes, that's your friendly neighbourhood rock and roll drummer taking centre stage in the bottom row.

Can you identify any of the others? Let me know!

There'll be another photo from my album in the Sunday Mercury next week.

OVER the years, I've been proud to have played a part in the Rock With Laughter shows that were started by my best mate, Jasper Carrott.

Here's a backstage shot from 2008, taken at Birmingham's NEC Arena.

That's me on the left, with songbird Bonnie Tyler, Jasper and Phil Tree, who's the bassist in the Bev Bevan Band.

Welsh wonder Bonnie is a great pal, and had huge hits with It's A Heartache, Holding Out For A Hero and Total Eclipse Of The Heart.

She's still touring at the age of 60, and plans to release a country-rock album recorded in Nashville later this year.

THERE'S been a lot of talk lately about the big Black Sabbath reunion.

But here's a band that'd still go down an absolute storm these days.

It was 1995 and the Tony Iommi Band was recording an album.

We were locked away in Monnow Valley Studios, deep in Wales.

From left to right in the photo, that's me (yes, the one with the dodgy facial hair), keyboardsman Don Airey, Black Sabbath axeman Tony Iommi, bassist Neil Murray and guitar genius Gordon Giltrap.

REMEMBER the photo a fortnight ago of me proudly sitting behind my first-ever sponsored drum kit?

It was quite a modest affair but, boy, was I proud of it.

Fast-forward now to 1991 and you'll see that things got bigger - and how!

This is a photo taken during rehearsals for ELO Part 2's gigs with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

The venue was Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and the shows were fantastic.

It was such a thrill to hear those ELO songs played by one of the world's top orchestras.

And, of course, the band added the rock and roll riffs. It was a musical marriage made in heaven!

Watch out for another photo from my album next week in the Sunday Mercury.

TONIGHT was The Move's first single for the prog-rock Harvest label back in 1971.

The original plan had been to release a song titled Ella James off our Message From The Country album.

But label bosses had a change of heart, and decided that Tonight had a better chance in the charts.

The song, one of Roy Wood's, wasn't actually on the album and was only added to a 2005 re-issue!

Anyway, here we are on Top Of The Pops performing Tonight, with Jeff Lynne and Roy on guitar, and yours truly on drums.

Catch another picture from my photo album next week in the Mercury.

OVER the past year Midland pop legend Bev Bevan has been opening his rock'n'roll tour diaries in the Sunday Mercury.

Today the Move and ELO legend turns instead to his photo album. Each week we'll be featuring a pop snapshot from the past.

We kick off at the double - with two of the pictures from Bev's archives.

"The first shot, taken back in 1968, shows members of The Move, The Animals, The Nice, Colliseum and the Jimi Hendrix Experience about to board a flight to play a festival in Switzerland," says Bev.

"That's me just behind our singer Carl Wayne, resplendent in dark jacket, hat and shades, on the left. And you can spot Roy Wood to the right of the passengers.

"My second photo shows me with lovely Sally James on the classic TV show Tiswas, on which I appeared in 1978. You had to watch out for that phantom flan flinger!"