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Ironic last words – what they said right before they died
IN a textbook case of tempting fate, Californian rapper Erwin McKiness – aka Jew’elz and Inkyy, whose fateful Twitter picture is reproduced below – was killed in a suspected drink-driving accident...
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Hey Lulu: The Stoned Performance That Got Jimi Hendrix Banned By The BBC
ON January 4, 1969 Jimi Hendrix appeared on Happening for Lulu. Sharing the bill with Pan’s People, Badfinger and Johnny Harris, Hendrix and his Experience would perform a duet with the Shout singer...
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Jimi Hendrix As A Baby With His Parents In The Early 1940s
IN 1941, Jimi Hendrix was born. Named Johnny Allen Hendrix, he was son to James Allen Ross Hendrix and Lucille Jeter: Spotter: Experience Music Project The post Jimi Hendrix As A Baby With His...
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Vinyl Clones: Album Cover Look-Alikes (Part 3)
It’s amazing how similar certain album covers are to each other; some intentionally, some by chance. We’ve covered this subject before (Part 1, and Part 2: the cheesecake edition); however, there’s...
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Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann
On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann. She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in...
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Rock Scene Magazine Issue 1: Read What You’ve Been Hearing
The first issue of Rock Scene magazine came out in March, 1973. To celebrate the legendary magazine, I will post complete issues on the anniversary month of their original publication dates. There will...
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Linda McCartney, and her Photographs of Paul, The Beatles and Other Artists
Linda McCartney- ‘Mirror, Self Portrait’ (1992) Linda McCartney was famous for her vegetarianism, animal rights activism and her work as a music photographer, capturing such famous faces as Aretha...
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At Home With Jimi Hendrix (1966)
We never got to read the Jimi Hendrix cook book. If these photographs of his stay at Ringo Starr’s flat at 34 Montagu Square, London, in 1966 are pointers, Hendrix’s recipes would have featured tea...
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Moebius Illustrates Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Soup
Inspired by a 1967 photograph taken by journalist Jean-Nöel Coghe of Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) eating soup at a cafe in France, French artist Jean Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10...
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Murder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers
You can judge a book by its cover, it just depends on the talents of the artist and their understanding of the book they are illustrating. Tom Adams (March 29, 1926 – December 9, 2019) was such an...
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Jimi Hendrix, Louise Brooks, Nazis and Spies – A Brief History of St James’s
Anne St Marie dressed in Chanel in St James London, 1955 Visiting England, apparently on a whim and a year before she appeared in her first film The Street of Forgotten Men, a young Louise Brooks...
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1990s Teenagers and Their Bedrooms Walls
Teenage bedrooms: Submission by Cathy Limb for the Museum of Youth Culture In the 1980s a cousin’s bedroom was covered in pictures of Duran Duran. No. Not exactly. Rewind. Simon Le Bon was there by...
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Remembering Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone Magazine’s First Staff Photographer
“You know the movie Almost Famous? That’s how my life was at Rolling Stone” – Baron Wolman Baron Wolman just passed away at 83, and while the name may not mean much to most, fans of classic rock...
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Grace Jones Breaks the Internet by Jean-Paul Goude
Grace Jones – Blue Black in Black on Brown – New York, 1981 – by Jean-Paul Goude “Everything here is manipulated,” says Jean-Paul Goude (born 8 December 1940), the French graphic designer, illustrator,...
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Why Jimi Hendrix Preferred Linda McCartney To 19 Naked Women
Jimi Hendrix was a megastar. At his short-lived peak, he was the world’s highest earning musician. But record companies were uncertain how to sell the man behind the music who was banned by the BBC....
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