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1970s

Lunch with Messrs Hell + Riviera

I’ve had few, if any, lunches as enjoyable as last week’s hook-up with Richard Hell and Jake Riviera for a piece I am writing for GQ magazine. Richard and Jake first met outside CBGB in March 1976, having been introduced by photographer Roberta Bayley, who was working the club door that night. With Dr Feelgood’s […]

February 10, 2014
1970s

Photography: David Parkinson shoots Acme Attractions

I’ve been enjoying researching materials relating to the late photographer David Parkinson for a feature for GQ magazine, so thought I’d share some of the images I dug out of the Parkinson archive concerning the 70s King’s Road retro clothing store Acme Attractions. Parkinson’s position as fashion editor of Paul Raymond’s sophisticated soft-porn magazine Club […]

January 16, 2014
1970s

Recommended: Where The Bodies Are Buried – Mick Brown on Kenneth Anger in Esquire

Do yourself a favour and read Mick Brown’s interview with Kenneth Anger on the Esquire website. We were fortunate to sit with Mick during part of his preparation for the piece, attendance to the screenings of contemporary work and  a q&a with the magus during last summer’s brief Anger season at the ICA. As Brown’s article […]

January 6, 2014
Art

Glam! The Performance Of Style at Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

Glam! The Performance Of Style – the exhibition which locates early 70s glam rock in the context of fine art and the interplay between “high” and mass culture – is opening at the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz, Austria later this month. I was a consultant to Glam!’s curator Darren Pih of Tate Liverpool, where the […]

October 4, 2013
430 King's Road

Iggy Pop’s Wild Thing jacket: Not from Paradise Garage

A few years back I wrote a series of blogs about the so-called “Wild Thing” jacket worn by Iggy Pop on the cover of his and The Stooges’ album Raw Power; in 2008 I had brokered a deal for the jacket designers John and Molly Dove to reissue a t-shirt range – including a version […]

July 22, 2013
Fashion

Steps Ahead: The Laurie Cunningham project moves apace

Journalist Dermot Kavanagh’s project to celebrate the life and achievements of the late soul boy footballer Laurie Cunningham moves apace; if you have the opportunity, listen to Kavanagh talking to BBC London 94.9’s Robert Elms today.

July 17, 2013
Books

Starting work on my new book – Legacy: The Story Of The Face

I am now starting work on a new book. Legacy: The Story Of The Face is to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2015 and has the support and involvement of Nick Logan, the owner and founder of what became one of the most important and influential publications of recent times.

July 10, 2013