Former national music journalist, song-writer, poet and avid T&A letter writer Karl Dallas is being honoured by Bradford's National Media Museum.

Over ten weeks until September the NMM is running a season of feature films and documentaries about popular music to commemorate Mr Dallas's journalistic career which began 50 years ago on Melody Maker.

The season starts on Saturday night.

Tony Earnshaw, the museum's head of film programming, said: "Karl Dallas is doing an interview on stage at Pictureville at 8pm after which there will be a screening of the George Lucas film American Graffiti.

"We hope this will be the start of a unique series of films and music pictures in honour of a man who has seen it all. He's written for Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, The Independent and The Daily Worker.

"He saw rock n' roll come in, he was there at the birth of punk. He's interviewed Jim Morrison, Frank Zappa, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. For some years he was the only music journalist Pink Floyd would talk to. And he's still writing at the age of 76. He's the oldest rocker in town."

Mr Dallas will reveal how he fooled Frank Zappa - who hated music writers - into taking him seriously and how he got thrown out of Bob Dylan's dressing room.

Other films to be shown include Pink Floyd's The Wall, Message to Love, about the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The Kids are Alright, about The Who, and a documentary about The Dixie Chicks.

On Monday the Cubby Broccoli cinema hosts an interview with producer Piers Tempest whose controversial movie Like Minds was shown at Cannes and will be screened afterwards.