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A couple of years back I interviewed Anita Pallenberg – who celebrated her birthday yesterday – for Mojo magazine. The subject was the scene in and around the King’s Road in 1967. Crisp and funny, Pallenberg was just as buzzed about the present; visiting Karl Lagerfeld in Paris the next day, her interests in gardening and photography, the […]
By the time this appeared in International Times, The Angry Brigade had bombed the Biba boutique in Kensington High Street, west London, on May Day, 1971.
These are items from the new range of garments using graphics, sleeve designs, song titles and photography relating to Can as part of Jun Takahashi’s Underman range.
Maggs has issued a scratch catalogue of William Burroughs’ photographs of London 1972 – 1974. These are hand-made prints produced a few years ago from the original negatives and are conservation-framed and glazed. Here are some more pages from the catalogue:
This framed Disneyland Memorial Orgy poster is available from Steven Sclaroff. Read my report on how MAD magazine artist Wally Wood produced it in 1967 for Paul Krassner’s satirical publication The Realist – and how the element featuring Snow White and “the Sir Punks” came to appear on a t-shirt sold at Seditionaries – here.
Year-ends and beginnings naturally bring a sense of loss, of time passed and experiences weighed. For me, 2010 will always mark the deaths of two individuals of personal import and also of lasting significance to our culture: Charlie Gillett and Malcolm McLaren. These apparently disparate individuals – Gillett 68 and McLaren 64 at their time […]
These are exterior shots of the incarnations of 430 King’s Road since the early 60s.
Alan Freeman (BBC DJ): “The popular music press always branded Henry Cow or Art Bears as ‘left wing’. “ Chris Cutler (drummer, Henry Cow/Art Bears/etc): ”Of course. Extremely. If you hate this government, and everything it stands for.” I witnessed Henry Cow live for the first time at a “free” concert held one afternoon in […]
NAME: Jah Wobble (real name: John Wardle) RESIDES: Cheshire OCCUPATION: Musician It’s well documented that, in his teenage years, Jah Wobble was a member of the Four Johns, the gang of youths who gravitated to each other while at Kingsway College Of Further Education on the fringes of the City Of London in the mid-70s. […]
Aphasic Disturbance, the current show at CHELSEA space, is curator Stephen Bury’s response to “Two types of language and two types of aphasic disturbance”, the 1956 essay by the linguist/literary theorist Roman Jakobson on manifestations of aphasia (the loss of power of expression through speech). And Bury – now Andrew W. Mellon chief librarian of […]