The Coolest Girls

WOWZ!!

Clockwise from left: Chrissy Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, Pauline Black, Poly Styrene.

Shot by Michael Putland in August 1980 for New Musical News (or probably NME)

Miscellaneous B&W Photos

Patrick Hunt for Vogue UK, June 1969. 

Laura Levine, Prince NYC 1981

Janette Beckman, Rude Boys, London, 1981

Kim Novak in Life Magazine for the film Bell, Book, and Candle, 1958

Andy Warhol shot by Dennis Hopper, circa 1961

Old Friends

 Joan Jett

John Cusack

Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash, by Laura Levine

David Bowie, by Denis O'Reagan, 1983

The Go-Go's

Richard Bernstein!

You may recognize the style of these Richard Bernstein illustrations from the covers of 1980's-era Interview Magazine, because he was the one who did them. When I was a kid back at the end of that decade, my subscription started with his illustrations, but soon moved on to a Stephen Meisel photographic approach. (My Aunt Val always provided me with some pretty awesome subscriptions)

Our Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.

Diane Lane, November 1985

Eddie Murphy, September 1987

Stevie Wonder, June 1986. He was born in the same town as me!

Yoko Ono

Bianca Jagger

Album Covers

Haven't posted any album covers in a long time!

David Bowie, Alabama Song/Space Oddity, RCA Records, UK 7-in., 1980

Blondie, In the Flesh/Man Overboard, Private Stock Records, Japan 7-in., 1977

Sparks, Kimono My House, Island Records, UK LP, 1974

Alan Parsons Project, I Robot, Arista Records, US LP, 1977

Robert Palmer, Sneakin' Sally through the Alley, Island Records, US 7-in., 1974

New York Rocker

The New York Rocker was a monthly paper dedicated to underground music, published from 1976 to 1982. It covered all my favorites, as well as employed awesome music photographers, Laura Levine and Ebet Roberts.

 The Clash, 1979

Devo, December 1979

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I (of course) favor the style used from 1980-1981. Elizabeth van Itallie was the art director.

Lydia Lunch and Lene Lovich, May 1980

Pretenders, June 1980

X, September 1980

Pylon, March 1981

Prince, June 1981

Miscellaneous Babes

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien Resurrection

Madonna

Iman for YSL, Spring 1980, shot by Claus Ohm

Linda Rondstadt, with a cute smile!

Miscellaneous People

Lionel Richie, as drawn by Richard Amsel. I have always felt that Lionel seems like a cool guy, and I wish he was a friend of mine.

Inez Dickerson shot in 1951, by Carl Van Vechten for the Living Portraits Series 1939-1964. I've tried to find out, but I don't know who she is or what she may be known for.

Still from Alejandro Jodorowsky's  1970 film, El Topo (he also directed The Holy Mountain). Sourced from one of my faves, I Love Hot Dogs.

Old friend, David Bowie, putting on his face in the 70s. It looks like so much fun to play with all of that pigment!

Pianist Mauricio Kagel, 1937-2008

Miscellaneous Babes

From Helmut Newton's Pirelli calendar, 1985

Susan (no last name) and Debbie Harry, 1977, shot by Swiss photographer and filmmaker, Edo Bertoglio. 

Bertoglio was a regular on the downtown NY art scene in the late 70's and early 80's. He made Downtown 81 (aka New York Beat Movie) with Maripol, starring Jean Michel Basquiat (and tons of my other favorites: James Chance, Kid Creole, Tish & Snooky, Roberta Bayley, John Lurie...the list goes on and on). It was shot in 1981, but wasn't released until 2000.

A 1970's makeup ad. I don't think they make it any more, but I seem to remember my mom having this brand around when I was a little kid.

My inclination is that this is a French new wave band called the Modernes, but I am really having a hard time verifying that.  JohnnyM let me know that this is an '80s French synthpop duo, Elli & Jacno, and that the photo is by Pierre René-Worms from 1981. Here is their MySpace page.

It says all that in the caption, and I tried to look up what I thought it might say, but it was too small to read!

CBGB Posters

When I was working on a project for CBGB, I had the privilege to dig through all kinds of stuff they've kept around over the years. They had a cache of old posters, and these from the late 70's/early 80's were the ones I liked the best.

It looks like they were all done by the same person. I tried to figure who he/she is but I can't. Their signature looks like it says S. Ray.  I did some digging, and it appears that the designer is Stephen Thomas Ray; he is a portraitist now.

This one is my fave of the bunch. I don't know much about the band The Colors, but here's some information about them.

It surprises me a bit that I don't know any of these bands. That sounds kind of arrogant, right?

Levi and the Rockats were an British/LA rockabilly band.

The Sorrows are another band I'm not familiar with, but here's what I found about them. They were a power-pop group. My boss has a friend who was in the Drongoes, but I don't know much about them beyond that.

The Student Teachers existed between Easter 1978 and Halloween 1980.

The Bloodless Pharaohs became the Stray Cats after moving from New York to London.

This poster had been hanging in Hilly Kristal's office since the show happened. It's glued over the top of an 1950's movie poster (probably Tamango, starring Dorothy Dandridge), and it's in pretty crummy shape. Hilly must have been really into the Police in order to have kept it up for so long.

And by the way...I don't care what anyone thinks: I will always count the Police as one of my top favorite bands of eternity.