TRIBUTES have been pouring in for well-known music shop owner "Doctor Rock" following his death from a heart attack.

Passionate music fan Keith Hand, aged 56, of Bury and Bolton Road, Radcliffe, died at Fairfield Hospital, Bury, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

He had complained of a sore throat and driven himself to the hospital, but passed away following two heart attacks.

Music fans knew Mr Hand as Doctor Rock because of the equipment shop of that name which he ran on Bolton Road in Bury.

His passion was realised in the 1970s when he took on the role of roadie for glam-rock bands Mud and Sweet. When Sweet played at the Manchester Apollo recently Mr Hand, who was 6ft 8ins tall, joined the band after the concert.

Mr Hand's wife, Wendy, aged 53, said: "Music was such a big thing to him. He loved it."