love of the past

feelin’ nostalgic.

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• Audrey Hepburn photographed by Allan Grant. March 8, 1956.

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• Queen during their Hyde Park concert on September 18, 1976.

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• The audience during Queen’s concert in Hyde Park, September 18, 1976. Over 150,000 people came to see them play live.

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• 16 year old Brian May with his legendary homemade guitar The Red Special which he built with his dad, 1963.

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• Paul McCartney, his step-daughter Heather and Caitlin Davies. Taken by Linda McCartney during their visit to Hunter Davies in Praia da Luz, Portugal. December, 1968.

•“While we were living at Luz, an unexpected visitor arrived in the middle of the night by taxi from Faro (and with no escudos to pay his fare). It was Paul McCartney with his new girlfriend Linda and her daughter Heather, who was about the same age as our eldest child, Caitlin. They stayed for two weeks. We took them down the coast to Sagres and Cape St Vincent - the Land's End of Europe - and went inland to Monchique where we had chicken piri piri at the Rampa, a primitive but wonderful little restaurant. Linda took endless photos and I captured it all on my Super 8 silent camera.” - Hunter Davies.

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• Janis Joplin during her last public performance at Harvard Stadium, taken by Peter Warrack. August 12, 1970.

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• John Deacon for Music Life Magazine, March 21st 1976, Tokyo, Japan.

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• Fans mourning the death of John Lennon, December 1980.

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• Aretha Franklin by Linda McCartney, 1968.

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• Naomi Campbell for Vogue, June 1990.

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• John Deacon signing an autograph for a fan, 1970’s.

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• Some of the last pictures of Freddie Mercury taken by his partner Jim Hutton, spring 1991.

• “I was out in the garden photographing some of the flowers in full bloom and Freddie walked towards me. I trained the lens on him and he told me to hold on - he wanted to move back a bit so it wasn’t a close-up. Then he posed while I took four pictures, and he managed a smile for each. He was so pale and drawn that he knew he didn’t look his best, but it didn’t matter a bit; of all the pictures I have of Freddie, those are the ones I love the most.” - Jim Hutton, “Mercury and Me”.

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• On March 12, 1969 Linda Eastman and Paul McCartney got married. They stayed happily married for almost 30 years until her death in 1998. Today would be their 50th anniversary.

• “Every love song I write is for Linda.” - Paul McCartney

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• Some of the last photos of Marilyn Monroe taken by George Barris, July 13th 1962, Santa Monica Beach, California.

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• Naomi Campbell for Vogue, June 1990.