“He was as fated as Byron, Shelley, and Keats to die prematurely, the same as James Byron Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and his famous look-alike, the poet-singer of the perverse, Jim Morrison of The Doors”
Jack Fritscher
Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera
Self-Portrait, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1980
Jimi, Central Park, New York, 1967
Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, New York City, 1967
Brian Jones and Mick Jagger, New York, 1966
Paul and Michael, Sussex, 1981
Paul, Stella and James, Scotland, 1982
My Love, London, 1978
Self-portrait, Bathroom, London, date unknown
John Lennon In Colour, London, 1969
Johnny and Kate, London, 1995
Allen Ginsberg, Sussex, 1995
Intimate, personal, and without pretense is probably the best way to describe Linda McCartney’s style of photography. Having been a photographic enthusiast for years before that fateful Beatles album launch in 1967, she used her talent to capture images others could only dream of. An all-access pass to the world of rock ‘n’ roll over three decades allowed her to shoot the likes of Jim Morrison onstage, Allen Ginsberg over a drink and conversation, pre-Thriller Michael Jackson on a farm and Johnny Depp with Kate Moss hanging out on a porch in the midst of young love.
James Joseph Marshall
“I love all the musicians – they’re like family. Looking back I realize I was there at the beginning of something special, I’m like a historian. There’s an honesty about this work that I’m proud of. It feels good to think, my God, I really captured something amazing.”
Jim Marshall (1936-2010) was born in Chicago and moved to San Francisco with his family when he was only two years old. There in the City by the Bay he remained during his lifetime. A Brownie camera was one of his first toys. Later he bought a Leica when he was in high school. After coming back from the serving in the Air Force, Marshall met John Coltrane. One day, while he was photographing backstage at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco in 1960, Coltrane asked him for directions to Berkeley. “He asked me for directions to a club,” Marshall said later. “I told him I’d pick him up and take him there if he’d let me take his picture.” This way the visual linkage between Marshall and the best jazz and rock performers was strengthened.
John Coltrane
“Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I’d think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Bird on Money, 1981
The painting is an homage to one of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s heroes, jazz saxman Charlie Parker. Rather than a conventional portrait, Basquiat portrays Parker as a chicken, or yardbird, which was one of the musician’s nicknames. It’s painted in a loose, neo-expressionist style the artist helped pioneer in the 1980s.
“Para Morir,” in the bottom right, means “to die.” At left, the words “Green Wood” are set above a diagram for Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, N.Y., where the artist was born in 1960, collector Mera Rubell told a Raleigh, N.C., reporter in an article. That is not where Parker is buried but, eerily, it’s where Basquiat was laid to rest seven years after he made this painting.
CPRKR, 1982
Charles The First, 1982
Discography I, 1983
Horn Players, 1983
The “ORNITHOLOGY” of Basquiat’s Horn Players references a Charlie Parker composition of the same name, a song that Eric Lott’s has called “the national anthem of bop”. But Ornithology is a reproduction and repetition of the jazz standard How High the Moon, but in its repetition of it and reproduction of it, Parker creates something new, a new sound, a new music born from iteration that is anything but silent.
Arm and Hammer II, 1984
The one on the right – Warhol’s – is a faithful reproduction of the iconic logo, with a beefy arm brandishing a hammer, while on the right, Basquiat presents Charlie Parker with a saxophone at his lips as the logo’s centerpiece.
Bird of Paradise, 1984
Untitled (Estrella), 1985
Now’s the Time, 1985
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Jimi Hendrix
Kurt Cobain and Chris Novaselic
Alice Cooper
Iggy Pop. Galleries Lafayette ad campaign
Ronnie Vannucci Jr.
Brandon Flowers
Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons
Flea
Bette Midler
Katy Perry
Cee Lo Green
Mariah Carey
Destiny’s Child
Elvis Presley
Bono
Ian Anderson (lead vocalist of Jethro Tull)
Bob Dylan. Must Be Santa (Nash Edgerton, 2009)
Based on a German drinking song, Must Be Santa is structured as a call and response, with the lead singer posing the question of who has a certain feature, with a chorus responding that Santa Claus has said feature. After every other verse, the list of features mentioned up to that point is reiterated, followed by the chorus of “must be Santa” repeated three times and ending with “Santa Claus.”
In November 2009, Bob Dylan covered Brave Combo‘s version of the song in a polka style for his Christmas album, Christmas in the Heart. The New York Daily News described Dylan’s version as such: “It’s sort of unclear if Dylan (…) was aiming to celebrate the holiday, or gently poke fun at the music’s Norman Rockwell-esque simplicity.”
Carolyn Murphy: Courtney Love. Jake Schroeder: Kurt Cobain. Dylan Schroeder Murphy: Frances Bean Cobain
Fanni Bostrom: John Lennon. Audrey Marnay: Ringo Starr. Tasha Tilberg: Paul McCartney and Trish Goff: George Harrison
Ben Northover: John Lennon. Devon Aoki: Yoko Ono
Omahyra: Prince
Karolina Kurkova: Marilyn Manson
Cyrille Victor: Jimi Hendrix. Matt Duffie: Jim Morrison. Karen Elson: Janis Joplin
Crew of models: The Rolling Stones
Hannelore Knuts: David Bowie. Diana Meszaros: Angela Bowie
Sophie Dahl: Debbie Harry
Gladys Love and Elvis Presley
Beatrice “Beatty” Stone, Bob Dylan’s Mother
Johnny Allen Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix), was the first of Lucille Jeter’s five children
Clara Virginia Clarke holding Jim Morrison
Grace Slick with his mother Mrs. Virginia Wing
Eric Clapton grew up with his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, who was stepfather to Patricia Clapton and her brother Adrian, believing they were his parents and that his mother, Patricia, was actually his older sister.
Eva Scutts and Mick Jagger
Curtis Donald Cobain in a family portrait accompanied by his mother Wendy Elizabeth Fradenburg, his father Donald Leland Cobain, and his young sister Kimberly
Doris Dupree taking a walk with his only child, Keith Richards
Elton John with his mother Sheila Eileen and his stepfather Fred Farebrother
Katherine Esther Scruse and the eight of her ten children, Michael Jackson
Madonna Louise Fortin, Madonna’s mother
Slash ad Ola Hudson
Beth Ditto and her mother
Beck and Bibbe Hansen, a former Warhol superstar
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