Born Before 1984

For and about those of us born before 1984

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Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte

Photo by Gordon Parks (1959)

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Billie Holiday

Photo by Roy DeCarava

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John Waters and Cookie Mueller

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Pedro Bell, Whose Wild Album Covers Defined Funkadelic, Dies at 69

His vivid imagery, hypersexualized and full of futuristic themes, helped create the mythology of George Clinton’s groundbreaking group.

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Agnès Varda 

Photo by Patrice Lenormand, 2003

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Desmond Dekker - 007

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Prince

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Hear Siouxsie Sioux’s Powerful Isolated Vocals on “The Killing Jar,” “Hong Kong Garden,” “Cities In Dust” & “Kiss Them for Me”

Like hundreds of other teenagers in late seventies England, Susan Ballion, better known as Siouxsie Sioux, embraced the anyone-can-do-it-ness of punk after seeing the Sex Pistols.

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Fab Five Freddy, Joe Strummer, Raymond Jordan, and Futura 2000 in Asbury Park, NJ. June 1982.

Photo by Bob Gruen

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What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

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Twist THR.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Zora Neale Hurston

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1940

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The last survivors of the Mexican revolution, who fought alongside Emiliano Zapata. Some of them are convinced that their hero, who disappeared in 1919, is still alive. Although they’re old and feeble, several of these ‘Zapatistas’ never go out without a gun.

Photo by Pascal Maître

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Rita Moreno

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Marvin Gaye 

Photo by Jim Britt, 1973