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How Vinyl Records And Music Tapes Are Made (1954)
I’m gonna write a little letter Gonna mail it to my local DJ It’s a rockin’ rhythm record I want my jockey to play Roll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today – Roll over Beethoven, Chuck Berry...
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Gris Gris, Dr John And The The Night Tripper: Beyond Stoned Magnificence
Dr John “To you whom I may communicate with shortly through the smoke of Deaux-Deaux the rattlesnake whose forked tongue hisses pig Latin in silk and satin da-zaw-ig-day, may the gilded splinters of...
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The Beatles Abbey Road Photoshoot – August 8 1969
On August 8 1969, The Beatles were on a photoshoot for their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road. The album’s cover remains as recognisable as the music it holds. Photographer Iain Macmillan (20...
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Rod Stewart : The Third Gasoline Alley Jacket
I’m indebted to reader Dave Shaw, who has sent me the photograph above left of himself wearing a very rare rock fashion garment: one of the canvas and leather jackets made famous by Rod Stewart, who...
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Brilliant Photos, Lobby Cards and Posters from the Beatles’ Film – A Hard...
A Hard Day’s Night directed by Richard Lester over sixteen weeks in 1964 and starring the Beatles filmed during the height of Beatlemania and was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United...
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The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat
Marianne Faithfull pointed at a pale man sitting next to her and told a reporter, rather optimistically, that Oliver Musker, the twenty-seven-year- old Old Etonian she was seeing at the time and who...
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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes...
You and Brion have described your collaborations over the years as the products of a “third mind.” What’s the source of this concept? WILIAM S. BURROUGHS: A book called Think and Grow Rich. BRION...
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Listen to Sylvia Plath Read Her Poetry – Ariel, The Colossus, Tulips & More
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet...
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Highlights From a Great Collection of Vintage Record Store Bags
“The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” – Cameron Crowe We were more concerned with keeping Britain tidy than saving the planet in the 70s; when buying vinyl in...
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Bombs, Jazz And Junkers – The Birth Of Record Collecting
Brian Rust Of The BBC Record Library – 1960 – photo David Steen Although people often said Brian looked like an “academic” – the little illegal jazz magazines called him “The Sage of Edgware” – he was...
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The Beauty of Vintage Czechoslovakian Record Sleeves
The Supraphon record label opened in Czechoslovakia in 1932, selling work by the country’s artists produced for export by the Ultraphon company. Post World War II, Ultraphon was nationalised and...
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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked...
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis...
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