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Guy Peellaert: The man who invented rock and roll

David Hepworth, The Word, 20 November 2008

I'VE ONLY JUST noticed that Guy Peellaert died the other day. Lots of people have never heard his name but the fact remains that, rightly or wrongly, Peellaert was one of the most influential people in the history of rock and roll music. In 1974 he published a book of his illustrations called Rock Dreams. This had a commentary by Nik Cohn.

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