//Sketches for the Lodger sleeve, 1979//

I just had to write and tell you how much I love the book that has just been published. Your work really cascades over the decades and is utterly real and convincing.

Extract of email from David Bowie to Derek Boshier, November 2015

I guess it can be told now. David Bowie was at one stage going to contribute to Rethink/Re-entry, the monograph of the artist Derek Boshier, with whom the late rock star had worked in the late 70s and early 80s.

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Tags: David Bowie, Goldie, GQ, Nine Lives, Serious Moonlight, The Clash

//Framed shred of Lucian Freud wallpaper designed by David Bowie for inclusion in the 1995 War Child fashion show Pagan Funwear//

It is of course very sad to note the death of David Bowie; 69 is too young, particularly for such an important figure in the pop cultural landscape with an evident abundance of creative contributions still to make to our lives.

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Tags: Freddie Buretti, Goldie, Kansai Yamamoto, Kevin Cann, laura Ashley, Lucian Freud, Mick Jones, Minotaur, Pagan Funwear, War Child

//Front cover, Elemental, The Earth, Rare Vinyl, 2016. Design: Ian Harris//

Ian Harris is one of those London characters who turns up at various stages in the capital’s post-war pop culture narrative.

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Tags: 39 Gerrard Street, Alan Parsons, Black Sabbath, Coffin Club, Elemntal, Genesis, Ian Harris, Janet Street-Porter, Kleptomania, Pretty Things, Record Collector, Regent Sound Studios, Rolling Stones, Terry Tonik, the Beatles, The Earth, The Who, West One

//One, Derek Boshier, 1967. Screenprint, 22.5 x 31″//

It’s always a delight to encounter fresh artworks by a favourite artist, and Derek Boshier’s print One from 1967 is no exception.

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Tags: !Manifesto!, Christopher Logue, eBay, One, Rob Tufnell Gallery

Below is a fun clip bringing back memories of the 2000 European Merry Mex-Mas tour by El Vez with his Memphis Mariachis and lovely Elvettes.

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Tags: El Vez, Elvettes, Feliz Navidad, Memphis Mariachis, Merry Mex-Mas, Poptones, Public Image, Robert Lopez

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I am among the participants in The Conformist, a group exhibition being organised for the New Year by artist Paul Kindersley at the gallery of Julia Muggenburg’s extraordinary London art/jewellery establishment Belmacz.

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Tags: Aubreay Beardsley, Belmacz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Denton Welch, Eric Gill, Helen Bullock, Helen Chadwick, Jah Wobble, Jennifer Campbell, Jonathan Baldock, Julia Muggenburg, Julie Verhoeven, Lady Emma Hamilton, Leigh Bowery, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Paul Housley, Paul Kindersley, Richard Malone, Robert Rush, Rose Wylie, Stephen Jones

//Dinah Adams and friend, Eastbourne, Sussex, summer 1971. Photo: David Parkinson. No reproduction without permission//

//From Men Only, Vol 36, No 8, 1971//

Thanks to artist Paul Kindersley for alerting me to the fact that images from an audacious photo-shoot by the late photographer David Parkinson were featured in an early 70s issue of Paul Raymond’s adult magazine Men Only.

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Tags: Andrei Luca, Club International, Dinah Adams, Glam! The Performance Of Style, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Men Only, Paradise Garage, Paul Kindersley, Paul Raymond, Tate Liverpool, Trevor myles

//A4 letterhead, Barney Bubbles, 1978. No reproduction without permission//

This company letterhead was designed by the late graphics master Barney Bubbles for music entrepreneur Jake Riviera during the latter’s tenure at 60 Parker Street in London’s Covent Garden in the late 70s.

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Tags: Clive Langer, Harpers & Queen, Jake Riviera, malcolm Garrett, Nick Lowe, Peter York, Stiff Records

//1964 promotional shot of Screaming Lord Sutch//

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Tags: Addie Isman, An An, Chuck Berry, Diana Crawshaw, Hans Feurer, Jerry Lee Lewis, Let It Rock, Little Richard, London Rock N Roll Show, Masayoshi Sukita, My Monster In Black Tights, Paradise Garage, Peter Clifton, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sunday Times Magazine, Tony Barrell, Ugly Things, You're Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You've Been Lying On!, Yvonne Gold

//From The Observer, December 6, 2015//

Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry – the artist monograph I edited – has been picked as one of the best art books of 2015 by British broadsheet The Observer.

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Tags: David Hockney, Diego Rivera, Peter Conrad, Thames & Hudson, The Observer