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Fur Dixon & Lux Interior, The Cramps

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the clash in record mirror on decemeber 22nd 1979. full article here!

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Johnny Rotten in Teddy Boy quiff & attire with a studded leather dog collar around his neck as a splash of punk attitude in 1977 (since he's wearing the same clothes as in the Sex Pistols photo session by Adrian Boot at the Glitterbest offices in Oxford Str. in 1977).

According to Omega Auctions which sold this photograph for £750 in 2023, it originally belonged to Helen of Troy of the Sex Pistols entourage:

"...this photograph originally belonged to Helen Wellington-Lloyd. This was Helen Wellington-Lloyd’s favourite photograph of Johnny Rotten and was the only photograph of the Sex Pistols she had framed in her living room in her flat in West Hampstead where she lived until 1999."

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I was sayin let me spin that record before I was even born -it's such a gamble when you get a face: Richard Hell DJing at the Mudd Club, NYC, ca. 1980/81.

"…The Mudd Club was simply impenetrable. Our South Street gang had all gone there from the moment it opened. We caught the initial outings of ex-Television-guitarist Richard Lloyd as well as the Feelies, in their revved-up, Velvets-infected majesty, and readings from William Burroughs, sitting behind his grey metal office desk. The DJ one night would be Cookie Mueller, the next night James Chance, the next night Richard Hell. …Traipsing back and forth between Tier 3 and the Mudd Club, sometimes multiple times a night, became a ritual for all of us no wave boys and girls. The rout from White Street to West Broadway –with a break at Dave’s Luncheonette once in a while- could be as social as the gigs themselves. Club hoppers would compare notes with those heading in the opposite direction, gleaning how dead or alive each spot was…” 'Sonic Life: A Memoir' by Thurston Moore.

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Joe Strummer in his post-Clash days, hanging with Matt Dillon at the Tin Pan Alley bar in NYC, as captured by Bob Gruen ca. 1987.

Photo no.1: Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.

Photo no.2: Hey, Joe!

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Jordan

Pictures scanned from an adult magazine called Gallery International (1976). They're from an article on 'Sex' shop with a 5 page interview with Malcolm McLaren .

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Timeless Cool

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Kurt Cobain and his kitten looking at polaroids (1991)

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Mr. Vanian. SOS.

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Johnny Rotten goofing around along with the rest of the Sex Pistols & Co. during a traditional Christmas dinner party hosted by Caroline Coon in Ladbroke Grove, London, as captured on 25th December 1976 by Ray Stevenson (pic 1) and Leee Black Childers (pics 2 & 3).

Caroline Coon: "...Everybody was exhausted from the Anarchy tour. I wanted to have a traditional Christinas. Fortunately, Jonh Ingham was house-sitting a huge house just off Ladbroke Grove. I did turkey, Christmas pudding and all the trimmings. It was an open house: everybody from all the main bands came...".

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IGGY. 1970. Photography by Jack Robinson.

"Description: Studio portrait of American musician Iggy Pop, then a member of The Stooges, in February 1970 in the United States."

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The Cramps 1979: Nick Knox, Lux Interior, Poison Ivy Rorschach, Bryan Gregory

Brompton Cemetery, West London  photo © Anton Corbijn  published in NME March 1980

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Aphex Twin's studio