In these 70s shots Dennis Hopper and Iggy Pop are both wearing the so-called “tits tee” – the design which started out as an art-school project in the late 60s, became a novelty item, then a punk classic and more recently was a Haiti disaster fundraiser.

I investigated the story of the tits tee here.

Tags: Alice Cooper, Dennis Hopper, Jizz Inc

Jack Smith’s business card didn’t lie.

Smith’s card is for sale, priced £75, in the new catalogue from Maggs.

Tags: Jack Smith, Maggs

//Acid Aalto 1, Donald Smith, 2011.//

My friend Donald Smith’s exhibition Acid Aalto opens at London’s Chelsea Arts Club tonight.

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Tags: Alvar Aalto, Burro, Chelsea Arts Club, Chelsea Space, Donald Smith, Tim Parker

I haven’t had it confirmed – nor seen this in any music history – but I believe this line ad to have been placed by Jerry Nolan three years before he replaced Billy Murcia as the drummer in the New York Dolls.

It appeared in the June 14, 1969 edition of Rolling Stone, the “first British issue” of the magazine produced in collaboration with newly recruited staff in London.

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Tags: Billy Murcia, Charlie Watts, Frendz, Friends, George O'Dowd, Jack Bruce, Jann Wenner, Jerry Nolan, Mick Jagger, New York Dolls, Paul Tickell, Pete Townshend, Peter Green, Roy Harper

As a companion to today’s post on the Horses cover, here’s another Patti Smith item from the archive: a feature by Penny Green from the October 1973 issue of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine.

Coinciding with the publication of Smith’s poetry book Witt, the photographs for the Interview piece were taken by Barbara Walz (who later produced The Fashion Makers with Bernadine Morris).

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Tags: 1973, Andy Warhol's Interview, Arthur Rimbaud, Balenciaga, Billie Holliday, Brian Jones, Chris Connor, Edie Sedgwick, Fernando Sanchez, Harper's Bazaar, June Christy, Patti Smith, Peggy Lee, Penny Green, Saks-Revillon, Vali Myers, Vogue, Witt

This is my copy of Horses, battered but unbowed after 35 years.

The story behind the photo-shoot for the front cover lies at the heart of Just Kids, Patti Smith’s valediction for Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Tags: 1947, Allen Lanier, Brassaï, Frank Sinatra, Horses, Just Kids, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Vadim, Sam Wagstaff, September 1975

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This sleeve for Joseph Beuys’ 1982 single is featured in Son Of Vulgar, the latest “scratch” catalogue from Maggs Bros’ counterculture department.

With 24 lots, it’s a typically eclectic affair.

Here is a selection, from a Malcolm McLaren promotional brochure for Bow Wow Wow and a Roxy Club membership card through US transgender photography of the early 20th Century to the LAPD’s report on the Symbionese Liberation Front and a book by Japanese artist Tadanori Yokoo:

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Tags: Bow Wow Wow, Joseph Beuys, LAPD, Li-Kar, Maggs Bros, Malcolm McLaren, Niles Marsh, Romaine Castle, Son Of Vulgar, Symbionese Liberation Front, Tadanori Yokoo, The Roxy

Published 1984-85, here are the covers and some content from the first three editions of Bad Seed, Miriam Linna’s celebration of Juvenile Delinquency, the “overnight plunge into general degeneracy” among US teens in the 50s.

At the time the JD scare prompted a media frenzy which was accompanied by an explosion of books, music, flicks and fashions.

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Tags: Bad Seed, Badlands, Billy Miller, Caril Ann Fugate, Charles Schmid, Charlie Starkweather, Chico's Girl, Harlan Ellison, Kicks, Miriam Linna, Nebraska, Norton, Susan Barrett, Terence Malick, The A-Bones, The Girls

This compilation of scenes from 1989 raves is proof positive of the nutso-bongo atmosphere of such events, and that tracks such as Street Tuff still prompt a shake of the leg (and other limbs).

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Tags: 1989, Double Trouble, Jane Bussman, Once In A Lifetime, Rebel MC, Street Tuff

//The Roebuck, 354 Kings Road, 1976.//

Thanks to Neal Purvis for alerting me to these captivating photographs taken in London in the hot summer of 1976 by German holidaymaker Klaus Hiltscher.

As Neal points out, Hiltscher captures the mood of the city in that specific period; I don’t believe my recall is playing tricks on me when I write that every day – from May through to September – was glorious in terms of the weather, and more often than not eventful in a variety of ways.

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Tags: Antiquarius, Gary Craze, Jean Machine, Jeff Kwintner, John Simons, Johnny Rotten, King's Road, Klaus Hiltscher, Malcolm McLaren, Meeny's, Neal Purvis, Sex Pistols, The Pheasantry, The Roebuck, The Squire Shop, You're Gonna Wake Up