Patti and Rod in barnet excelsis
Last week I recovered this from the back pocket of a pair of trousers; a page torn from a copy of Mojo found on the tube a few months back.
Category: New York
Herb puts Jimmy’s Corner on the map
I am delighted to see that Jimmy’s Corner, my favourite Manhattan bar, features on the latest map from Herb Lester Associates. Jimmy’s epitomises the map’s celebration of “old” New York.
Photography: Kate Simon
This portrait of David Bowie was taken by Kate Simon at Olympic recording studios in Barnes, west London, on January 14, 1974. Simon’s photograph captures a man on the cusp; furiously occupied in the studio, Bowie was tying up loose ends ahead of his departure for America 10 weeks later. He hasn’t lived in Britain […]
Letter from Ian Dury to Roberta Bayley
Ian Dury sent this letter to Roberta Bayley in May 1977. As the late songsmith’s biographer Will Birch explains here, Dury was just a few months away from achieving nationwide fame.
“It ain’t the Sistine Chapel…”
I heartily (groan…) recommend Alistair Sooke’s half-hour radio documentary on Milton Glaser’s I ♥ NY logo. Glaser is interviewed, as are Seymour Chwast and Steven Heller among others.
A personal loss and the rash of suicides among young gay individuals in the US has prompted the creation of a two-sided poster as the latest project by art collective 2-UP . No More Suicides is a collaboration between Adam Shecter (who founded 2-UP last year with partner Joe Winter) and poet Matthea Harvey, who […]
Beat This: A Hip Hop History
Excerpt from 1983 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip Hop History.