the stars are all connected to the brain

the world's first quadrophenia-based lifeform

[eminence-front]

📌 aimée. 25. she/her. lesbian. irish. not so-secret sideblog where i post about the music your dad listened to.

beatlemaniac for seven years and counting. victim of the brain-eating whomoeba. studier of the psychological experiment that is pink floyd. member of the village green preservation society.

petecoded rogergirl (just like pete townshend himself). certified watersheep.

i follow and like from my main - not sharing the link, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out that it's me.

disclaimer: i'm very much aware of the unsavoury history associated with many of the figures featured of this blog. i'm not here to 'stan' uncritically. i come at this from an angle of loving the music and being deeply fascinated by the behind-the-scenes history. i fully acknowledge the flaws and vices of the beatles and other classic rock musicians - their treatment of women in particular - and i am not here to delude myself into thinking anyone is an 'unproblematic king!' - no, not even your favourite. as a queer feminist that would be deeply hypocritical of me. but i also think that the passage of time creates distance and perspective, and that we can approach these darker truths as a part of the tapestry we as fans continually try to piece together, rather than as cheap 'gotchas'. the women behind these men deserve to have their stories told, and reducing their experiences to nothing more than a punchline or a brief bullet point on a 'here's why your fave is problematic' list is not giving them the respect they deserve.

tl;dr - don't get your ethical or political stances from 80-year-old rock musicians, kids. that would be very silly. get your fashion sense from 80-year-old rock musicians.

[cosmicanger]

[wonderwalltobehere]

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"and i moved," by pete townshend on empty glass, 1980

[silveraspensart]

@villagegreens here’s Ray and Dave Davies for you! Thank you for being patient I hope you like it! (I couldn’t resist the shirt haha)

[silveraspensart]

@sarma can you here me? Can you feel me near you? Sara can you see me? Can I help to cheer you?

Haha I couldn’t resist! Here’s Sally swooning over Tommy for ya! Thanks for being such a trooper and waiting so long 💛 hope you like it!

Also go check out her comic!!! It’s soooo gooooodd!!!!!!! ✨✨✨

[silveraspensart]

Oh by the way Which one’s Pink?

[eminence-front]

Just got branded with the sacred symbol of yearning and regret.... or, to put it another way, I got the Wish You Were Here logo tattooed on my arm.

[vintagerelated]

Richard Wright. :)

[endlesswire]

John Entwistle and Keith Moon before their first show at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, 1968. [x]

© Dawn Hall Estate of Douglas Kent Hall

A big thank you to @minty-playhouse for helping me with this post! Go check out her scans for more pictures from this photoshoot!

An additional photo of Keith Moon under the cut.

[stopthespirits]

The Who in 1970, photographed by Ron Howard. look. look at John's suit. it's unbeatably cool.

[wonderwalltobehere]

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"a little is enough," by pete townshend on empty glass, 1980

[eminence-front]

I find it very funny that the member of The Who who Ray Davies has said he considers a friend and would like to spend more time with is Roger, while he keeps Pete, who clearly idolises him, at arms length.

[arboreal-stop]

tom petty in los angeles (1977)

[just80sfashion]

Feature on rock n’ roll buttons/badges, Creem magazine, May 1980 

[kinkswondergirl]

Drawing by Pete Quaife - 2000

The Kinks in Wonderland?

[nihillist-blog]

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)

[more-relics]

Roger Waters  1975