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June 1971. Boxer Joe Frazier onstage at The Traveller's Friend, Castlebar, Co Mayo, Ireland with his soul band The Knockouts. Three months earlier he became the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion by defeating Muhammad Ali on points at Madison Square Garden📸Tom Campbell

"Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn..." Kraftwerk's 2013 transport rider

September 1967, Swinging London. Pattie Boyd, Cynthia Lennon, Maureen Starkey & Jenny Boyd (front) model creations by design collective The Fool for the Apple Boutique, which opened that December at 94 Baker Street📸Ronald Traeger

12/5/1976, Majestic Studios, 146 Clapham High Street, South London. The Sex Pistols & producer Chris Spedding demo 'Problems', 'No Feelings' & 'Pretty Vacant', their first 'official' recordings📸Ray Stevenson

NYC, 2021. A battered 1965 Mosrite Ventures II guitar is sold at auction for $937500...

5/9/1976, Club De Chalet Du Lac, Paris. The Pistols are on their first visit to France. Glen smiles, Johnny is in deep discussion with a teenage Lizzy Mercier Descloux, already a Paris 'face'. The following year she & boyfriend Michel Esteban moved to NYC & were central to the 'No Wave'

19/6/1980, Notre Dame Hall, London. Dome Cupol, Graham Lewis & Bruce Gilbert of Wire, do a performance with a set designed by Russell Mills & a Japanese bloke wandering about with Arabic newspapers. Fuck Dance, Let's Art!

1931, Vaudeville act The Gumm Sisters, Mary, Dorothy & Frances, pose for the camera. Frances, seated, was later better known as Judy Garland

June 1964. Peter Sellers visits his hero Stan Laurel, then aged 74, at his home in Santa Monica, CA. By all accounts the two got along famously. Sellers admitted he had Laurel in mind when creating the character Chauncey Gardiner in "Being There"

18/6/1979. PIL play The Factory AKA The Russell Club in Manchester📸Dave Crowe

1972, That London. The King's Cross Cinema later became The Scala

1976, London. IIRC The Ramones played Dingwalls the following night

1970, L.A. One of The Flamin' Groovies has gone solo😱

No apologies for posting one of my favourite bits of music TV again. The Mighty Groovies on French television in 1972... www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3p...

1969. Three bands on a 'Tour of San Francisco'...

1967, Merced, CA

1972. David 'THE FLAME OF THE HOME COUNTIES' Bowie & The Groovies hit Bedfordshire

Sparks supporting 'Weird Al' Jankovic. I honestly thought 2025 couldn't get any stranger...

1983. MCA Records attempts to 'soften' Joan Jett's rock chick image lasted one photo shoot...

21/12/1970. There has been a King in The White House...

19/3/1970, Bromley Town Hall, Kent. David Robert Jones marries Mary Angela Barnett. Here is the groom with his mum, Margaret 'Peggy' Jones