Fashion, art, and design
Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, August 1963
JOE BROWN has really put his foot in it this time. ...
Rolling Stones, The, Sonny & Cher: Eskimo Boots: The Stars And Kooky Garb: Do Clothes Make The Man?
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, September 1965
DO CLOTHES really make the man? Are they that important? Or are they merely for decoration? ...
Beatles, The: Beatle LP Cover Banned
Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1966
THE BEATLES have turned out the most nauseating album cover ever seen in the U.S. The jacket [of yesterday and Today — RBP Ed] is ...
Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, May 1967
SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED WITH HIM... AND HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET HER ...HULLABALOO SAW THEM TOGETHER, SAW HER POSING, SAW HIM FILMING ...
Profile and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, May 1967
NEW YORK – The world's most in-the-news model, Britain's seventeen year old Twiggy, arrived at Kennedy International Airport to a horde of newsmen and photographers ...
Light Shows: Adventure Into Experimental Living
Report and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, February 1968
THERE'S A revolution happening; happening on all levels of society. From the streets to the museums people are talking about new trends, new ways of ...
Joe's Lights: Many Hands Make Lights Work
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, September 1972
A look at the people behind the glitter. Caroline Boucher meets JOE'S LIGHTS, one of the best creative light shows around today ...
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, April 1974
NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...
Essay by Mick Farren, NME, July 1976
WHEN ALL AROUND YOU is brown, burnt, pink or peeling and you're tired of squinting in the glare it's time to consider... ...
Twiggy: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Fred Dellar, NME, July 1976
I GUESS they popped the champers at Phonogram after this glitzy shindig at the Home of Fest. For hadn't Mike Harding, had 'em clutching at ...
The Frontier Ethic of Anti-Fashion
Overview by Cynthia Rose, The Virgin Yearbook, 1980
THOUGH THE dictionary defines it as "the prevailing customs and usages of upper-class society, especially in dress", fashion is really a way to re-spell thievery. ...
Velvet Underground: Pop Art/Art Pop: The Warhol Connection
Report and Interview by Mary Harron, Melody Maker, February 1980
Like to be a galleryPut you all inside my show— David Bowie, 'Andy Warhol' Some people claim that only James Brown can match Andy ...
Grace Jones: This Year's Model
Interview by Mary Harron, Smash Hits, September 1980
Mary Harron meets The Height Of Fashion ...
Interview by Jon Savage, Face, The, January 1981
Let It Rock, Sex, Seditionaries...Anarchy t-shirts and bondage straps. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD’S new collection is called World’s End. She talked about it to JON SAVAGE. ...
How Music Changed The Look Of American Youth
Essay by Cynthia Rose, History of Rock, The, 1982
By 1962, rock'n'roll was no longer the pressing issue it had appeared in the days of Teddy Boys and juvenile delinquency. Music had given way ...
Peppermint Pop: Music, Art And The New York ‘In-Crowd’
Retrospective by Cynthia Rose, History of Rock, The, 1982
The Twist was a phenomenon of a commercial musical culture which, ever since its early boom in the mid-Fifties, had been looked down upon by ...
Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, February 1982
1) From Atlantis to the Jazz Loft MUSIC WAS probably the first art. You could run with it and take it up a ...
Aerosmith, A Flock of Seagulls, Culture Club, Mötley Crüe: Eleganza: Dress for Excess
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1983
Eleganza returns! This one-time fave fab fashion column, as you may know, oozed away slowly in the past few years for "reasons" we don't need ...
Joan Jett, Thompson Twins, The: Eleganza: Sneer & Sneer Again
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, August 1983
IF I NEVER glimpse another Rock 'n' Roll Bad Boy sneering at me on my television screen, trying to impress me with how unashamedly wicked ...
Prince, Cliff Richard, Adam & The Ants, Josie Cotton: Eleganza: The Best-Dressed List
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, September 1983
THERE ARE absolutes in fashion. For instance, flare-legged trousers are absolutely more flattering to the vast majority of people than straight-legged trousers, since they make ...
Berlin, Missing Persons, Mötley Crüe: Eleganza: Got Pizzazz (If You Want It)
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983
IN THE MONTHS since its resuscitation, several hundred readers have written this column to ask what they should do with their hair. Would that Eleganza ...
Interview by Jon Savage, Face, The, October 1983
For someone whose work has graced millions of record sleeves and influenced a whole generation, Jamie Reid’s personal profile is not the highest. This is ...
A Flock of Seagulls: A Flock Of Seagulls: Hair Apparent
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983
SINCE MOVING into it in the autumn of 1982, A Flock Of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score has scarcely seen his new flat in Liverpool ...
Adam & The Ants: Adam Ant: from Punk Reject to Prince Charming
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 1984
AS THE '70S DREW TO A CLOSE, the British pop scene seemed distinctively lacking in glamour. Punk rock had made way for a ‘new wave’ ...
Psychedelic Art: Flashing Back
Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, March 1984
Standing in line at the bank: what if this were on TV? What if we were all on mescalin?– Michael Brownstein, from '43 Cents a ...
Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol: Parallel Lives
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, January 1986
FRANK TALK WITH DEBBIE ...
Savage Pencil: With Lead In His Pencil
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Sounds, September 1988
SAVAGE PENCIL has turned his art to original biker movies. CATHI UNSWORTH savours his hellraising Angel Dust ...
Essay by Johnny Black, Q, November 1989
Any self-respecting Yes album used to feel naked without a fantasy cover by artist Roger Dean. It seems only fitting, then, that he has done ...
Pink Floyd: Storm Thorgerson: Daily Departures From Reality
Interview by Martin Aston, Q, December 1992
"I LIKE PICTURES that don't necessarily have an explanation off pat," Storm Thorgerson says of the beguiling, often outlandish record sleeves that cemented the ...
Beatles, The: Astrid Kirchherr
Profile and Interview by Graham Reid, New Zealand Herald, 1994
AT 55, ASTRID Kirchherr still loves rock music and listens to it every day: The Beatles, the Doors, Bowie... "and Prince, he's such a genius ...
Remembering Rock Dreams: Guy Peellaert and Nik Cohn
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Rambali, MOJO, March 1995
DO YOU STILL have a copy of Rock Dreams? If you were a rock fan in the early ‘70s, when it was first published, ...
Paul McCartney: Linda McCartney: How Rock 'n' Roll Saved Our Lives
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, August 1998
I first met Linda McCartney at the Scene on West 46th Street. A hip little grotto in a cellar, it was run by the cool ...
Beck, Al Hansen, and the new Art Rock
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, World Art, September 1998
LAST MAY, "Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. This fall and winter the exhibition can be ...
Jimi Hendrix: Public Image Unlimited
Essay by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Hendrix the black radical. Hendrix the glam dandy. Hendrix the icon. Hendrix the man. ...
The Dark Visions Of Raymond Pettibon
Profile by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, August 2001
Raymond Pettibon first got our attention with startling flyers for Black Flag shows. These days he's seen in the galleries and museums. ...
Rolling Stones, The: Imaging The Stones: John Van Hamersveld
Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Rock's Backpages, August 2001
John Van Hamersveld was one of the key poster artists of the psychedelic rock era in Los Angeles. He was also the man to whom ...
Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Surfadelic: From Surf Saga to Artist 64-74, October 2001
DECEMBER 31st, 1967: The Winterland Ballroom. San Francisco. Bill Graham's The Doors concert this evening. I'm checking out the show backstage with The Family Dog ...
Billy Childish: One In The Eye For The Fakes
Profile and Interview by Richard Cabut, 3ammagazine.com, 2003
Richard Cabut interviews painter, poet, novelist, musician, green-tea drinker and all-round dyslexic genius Billy Childish, as a retrospective exhibition opens in London. ...
Report by Paul Gorman, MOJO, 2003
THE UNEARTHING IN central London of a series of stunning images of rock icons from the early ‘70s has sparked a search for a mystery ...
Radiohead: The Story Of Tchocky
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, Q, Summer 2003
ON FEBRUARY 27, 2002, Radiohead designer Stanley Donwood mounted the stage at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, to receive a Grammy for "Best Recording Package" ...
The Million-Pound Mod: John Stephen
Obituary by Paul Gorman, unpublished, February 2004
JOHN STEPHEN - who died on February 1 aged 69 - was the "£1m Mod" who was a vital element in the look of the ...
Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, 2005
FOR AS FAR BACK as I can remember, I have been enraptured by album cover art. In the days before the small format of the ...
Kraftwerk: 'Kraftwerk Are The Catalyst'
Interview by Simon Witter, MOJO, September 2005
The band's art guru and oldest friend, EMIL SCHULT, gives a view from inside the Kraftwerk project. As told to Simon Witter. ...
Brian Eno: Containing Spontaneity
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, October 2006
NOT JUST a few otherwise sophisticated human beings would likely feel less uneasy naked and unarmed in Northern Afghanistan than present in a room when ...
Overview by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, March 2007
"I SAW THIS face looking up at me out of the trashcan. It was a woman. It looked like a flamenco dancer staring at me. ...
Pet Shop Boys: Pop Into Art: Post-Punk Aesthetics Revisited
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, May 2008
"Girls, Boys, Art, Pleasure"– Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, 'Paninaro 95' ...
Grace Jones: Grace Under Pressure: Grace Jones
Interview by John Doran, Stool Pigeon, The, December 2008
PLAYING BACK MY phone interview with Grace Jones, I notice that at the start of the transcript while I'm waiting for someone to pick up ...
Tom Wilkes, 1939-2009: Legendary Designer of Posters and Album Covers
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, July 2009
Tom Wilkes, legendary poster and album cover designer (Monterey Pop, the Rolling Stones' original Beggars Banquet, Neil Young's Harvest, Janis Joplin's Pearl, George Harrison's All ...
Aimee Mann: Cover Me – Aimee, Gail and the illustrators
Special Feature by Martin Colyer, Varoom!, Winter 2009
Video promos and downloads have diminished the value of sleeve art in the eyes of music companies, and illustration doesn't fit their brand-building approach to ...
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Eternal Ingénue: Charlotte Gainsbourg on Her Latest Stylish Role
Interview by Bethan Cole, Independent, The, July 2011
The daughter of Anglo-French musical royalty, Charlotte Gainsbourg was destined to be a performer — and now she's in the hottest arthouse film of the ...
The Album Cover Art Of Studio One Records (Soul Jazz)
Book Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, December 2011
WITHOUT STUDIO ONE there would still have been reggae music, but it might well have developed differently. ...
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