Good old desk

A nostalgic celebration of better times, namely the twentieth century. If the indelible touch of the peace and love era seems overly present, it is because of my incessant obsession with the 1960s & 70s. If you don't like Monty Python or The Beatles, you probably shouldn't follow me.

[good-old-desk]

[canadianbeerandpostmodernism]

Bob Dylan by Ken Regan

Rolling Thunder Review Tour

1975

[orwell]

Nina Simone and James Baldwin

[samweed]

Rep Fest: I feel like in the Classic Rock/Music fandom a lot of people are really preoccupied with the British Invasion artists and other white artists (ie: Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly etc, etc.) They don’t seem to know about some of the black artists that were making just as big of a splash in America at that time. So, I thought this was a good time to showcase some of the awesome black men and women who were making great music at that time.

Shown Above: The Supremes - Chuck Berry The Temptations - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Little Richard James Brown - The Marvelettes Aretha Franklin - The Isley Brothers

[fuckyeahmercury]

Rehearsals for News Of The World Tour – 1977

[my-retro-vintage]

Joni Mitchell in L.A.   1970

[strange-broo]

Actual 5 year old Paul McCartney, with Wings, 1976.

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, and Joan Baez, Big Sur Folk Festival, Sept. 1968.

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[soundsofmyuniverse]

Happy Birthday Ringo Starr // July 7, 1940.

I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

[crystallineknowledge]

“I’ve always been fascinated by flight, ballet, high jumps, big movements, big, big hand gestures. I’m just a person who likes to go on stage and entertain people.”

[dittymisslizzy]

John Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Maureen Starkey on a holiday in Port Of Spain, Trinidad © Mark and Colleen Hayward, 1966.

[tvcinemagifs]

A Hard Day’s Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester

[mcfffartney]

Françoise Hardy, 1964 © Steve Schapiro

[luharibol]

[heymccartney-blog1]

By Richard Avedon. 11th August 1967;

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