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Steve Strange of Visage, Billy Idol and Perri Lister (She appeared in Visage's second 'Fade To Grey' music video, as well as performing the song on numerous television shows).

📷 Robert Rosen

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Robert Rosen. Boy George at the Embassy Club London. 1979

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📸 Robert Rosen

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A Kiss that Made the Papers

Where were you in ‘82?

24 September 1982, London. A triple threat event: Linda’s 1st London photography exhibit, launch party for her 2nd photo book, and possible birthday party. Photo by Robert Rosen.

(See also The Guardian Archives 21 Sept 1982: First London exhibition for Linda McCartney. Although the article states that the events occurred on her 40th birthday, Linda was actually born in 1941; so this would have been her 41st birthday.)

“I got it!” recalled celebrity photographer Robert Rosen of the moment his camera captured a kiss between the McCartneys. “That photo went worldwide…” [link1, link2]

It instantly appeared on page 5 of the Friday 24 September 1982 issue of The Daily Mirror [link], complete with its own title and a little essay (reproduced below).

YESTERDAY… And after 13 years together a kiss is still something special for Paul and Linda by WILLIAM MARSHALL GENTLY, almost shyly, Paul McCartney kisses his wife, Linda. It happened at a party in London to launch Linda's latest book of photographs. The kiss is loving, sexual in a restrained kind of way, absolutely decent and breathes of a solid conventional marriage of four-square family values. The normal pattern for a multi-millionaire star like Paul would have been several divorces, a string o1 multi-coloured affairs, and a rapidly fraying life. Instead, McCartney, at 40 an enduring elder statesman in the ragamuffin rock world, beats a steady path into middle age with an ex-divorcee for a wife. They married more than 13 years ago. When I first met Paul twenty-odd years ago in the rackety, smokey music cellars of Liverpool he was a bright-faced kid for whom the world had suddenly been flung at at his feet — along with the rest of the Beatles. But even then, while all about him exploded into hysteria and chaos, he viewed the present and future with an eye like an experienced general before a battle. He came from a steady home background, adored his father and never subscribed to the passing whims and fancies that dictated that families, kids and lifelong marriages should be kicked out the door.

Takeaways

Paul doesn’t look so shy to me, ha ha (neither of them do).

An elder statesman of rock?? Beating a path to middle age?? But he’s only 40! And a young looking 40 at that. Let’s not call him an elder statesman until he gets some gray in his hair or until he reaches the titular age of 64, whichever comes last. On a more serious note, though, Marshall was probably speaking of generational impact rather than literal age. McCartney wrote more influential music before he turned 30 than most composers had written in a lifetime.

“… families, kids and lifelong marriages…” Count Mr. Marshall as a perceptive observer who could tell that what Paul and Linda had was a lifelong marriage — even at the relative “newlywed” stage of a mere 13 years. 😎

And Paul and Linda loved the photo. They have a copy. 💋

In a 20 Sept 2017 interview in I-D magazine [link], Rosen was asked which one of his photos he was really proud of. It was the Paul and Linda kiss photo, of course. Rosen says,

“I love the shot of Paul and Linda McCartney kissing. As soon as I had it developed I just thought, wow, I did that. I sent them a print but didn't hear anything more until a few months later, when, Paul and Linda turned up to a gallery event I happened to be at. At one point, Linda tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Are you ignoring us?' She gave me a big hug and told me they loved the photo. That obviously meant a great deal to me.”

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Jerry is me translated through Texas. - Marianne Faithfull

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Holy shit the guy who stole John Lennon's diaries has a tumblr???

His website and contact info is legit.

No other posts, so it really makes you think how many ‘lurkers’ are eating up our blogs!!

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HK Sochi’s Robert Rosén, who scored his first KHL hat-trick earlier this week.  (Image Source)

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David Bowie with Daniella Parmar and Princess Julia at The Blitz Club in London, 1979

Photo (c) Robert Rosen