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“I want to die with a million miles on my meter, I want to die with well-used and worn tyres” In The Land Of The Harley Davidson, Mary Cigarettes, 2011 It’s been a month or so since the death of the extraordinary singer-songwriter Mary Cigarettes; today I’m marking his passing with this selection from his […]
My biography of the late Malcolm McLaren will now be published in April 2020, exactly 10 years after his premature death at the age of 64.
The American illustrator and photographer Jim French – best known for his pioneering endeavours in the field of homoerotic art – has died at home in Palm Springs at the age of 84.
I’m saddened by the news of the death last week of the great Australian photographer Robyn Beeche.
“There were many kings of the King’s Road at different periods of time but there was only one Emperor” Lloyd Johnson Very sad to note the passing of Billy Murphy, a thoroughly lovely bloke whose contribution to street fashion – particularly in Britain and specifically in and around the King’s Road – is sorely underrated. […]
Rolling Stone’s obituary description of Ian McLagan as “jovial and charismatic” has nailed the character of this charming man. It seems to me that Mac chose to accentuate the positive and keep playing his vital music, an admirable trait in one who had often been dealt an unfair hand by the fates (not least when […]
Artist/illustrator Peter Knock pays tribute to the British ‘Situation’ painter Robyn Denny, who has died: Sad to learn of the death of abstract painter Robyn Denny last Tuesday (May 20). It surprised me that he was, in fact, 83; my image of him is locked into the 60s when he was one of the hip […]
The last time I saw photographer/manager Leee Black Childers – who has died aged aged 69 – was fleetingly, a year or so ago at the crowded launch of his book and exhibition at London’s The Vinyl Factory. The first time I saw Childers was at The Speakeasy at a March 1977 concert by his […]
“I work in the belief – or dare – that I can continue to reinvent myself and remain a perennial beginner.” Sad to note the death of the British artist Rose Finn-Kelcey. Read Guy Brett’s obituary for this “wonderful artist and great person” here. Ridinghouse’s recently published monograph Rose Finn-Kelcey – which contains essays by […]
Junior Murvin – who has died aged 67 – will forever be associated with the rebel cool of his 1976 Lee Perry-produced single Police & Thieves. Yesterday morning’s BBC Radio 4’s Today news programme displayed it’s trademark ham-fisted approach to pop culture when eagerly proclaiming the song his shining achievement by managing to misname Paul […]