The Random House/Penguin takeover prompted a visit from photographer Sarah Lee to shoot my collection of Penguin books for illustrative material for The Guardian.
One of her shots has already been used – a set of early 70s Raymond Chandlers with James Tormey jackets.
//Outside 430 King's Road (from left) summer 1971: Unknown, assistant Lisa Petersen, manager Roly Poltock, designer Diana Crawshaw and founder Trevor Myles. Photograph: Julian Allason.//
Harpers & Queen ran this photograph of the short-lived but significant World’s End boutique Paradise Garage in the Shopping Bazaar section of the September 1971 issue.
Hats off to Kevin Rowland and his team for the vinyl release of Dexys’ album One Day I’m Going To Soar.
The new quarterly magazine from Pallant House is up to the excellent standards set by one of the UK’s finest galleries.
//1975: Models Kathy + Jeremy in Artist tees at a New York fashion show.//
//2012: One of Motown's two new versions.//
Designer Pamla Motown – cherished for her contributions to 70s fashion with a run of sensational designs for Mr Freedom and under her own labels – is back with a new version of her graphic “Artist” T-shirt.
//Photo detail (from left): SEX customers Danielle, Alan Jones + Chrissie Hynde; Vivienne Westwood; assistant Jordan.//
As a follow-up to my recent post about the rarely seen 1975 interview with Malcolm McLaren in soft porn mag Gallery International, here is another exclusive: for the first time since publication in June 1976, the full article featuring McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s shop SEX in British sex guide Forum.
A fundamentalist Christian ideology which extends religious zealotry to the oppression of women and cowardly homophobia. Not a lot to love about Rastafarianism, particularly for one raised in an atmosphere of hard-line Catholicism.
Here Kevin Rowland answers the Blokes Of Britain questionnaire.
//Showing Price The Look Of London map.//
Conducting the in conversation with Antony Price at London’s Fashion + Textile Museum earlier this week was fun.
//Trixie Merkin, 1968. Photo: Baron Wolman.//
My appreciation for the visual culture surrounding popular music was given a leg-up at an early age by a Christmas 1973 gift: Rolling Stone‘s photography compendium Shooting Stars.
Edited by Annie Leibovitz, Shooting Stars lined up a number of the magazine’s photographic contributors who had recorded the American rock music scene in its pomp.
//Front cover, Shooting Stars, Straight Arrow Books, 1973.//
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