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Debbie Harry, Golden Goddess

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Joni Mitchell, 1973 by Henry Diltz

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Crazy Little Thing Called Love! Freddie and Deacy in Paris, May 3, 1982 by Bernard Legon, my edit of original via queenlive.ca

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Bruce Springsteen, “Frank’s Barbershop”, 1978 by Frank Stefanko, my edit of original via patch.

Patch is a website covering Haddonfield, NJ, and when they ran an obituary on the passing of Frank Montemurro in 2011, Mr. Stefanko wrote a letter to the editor. Here’s an excerpt:

I was a resident of Haddonfield from 1978 to 1988, in which time I was fortunate to know Frank. He was my barber, my son’s barber, as well as being a lovely and congenial human being.

I was also fortunate, back in 1978, because that’s when I first started working with another great Jersey guy, Bruce Springsteen. On a winter’s day in 1978, while strolling through town, I asked Bruce to lean against a barbershop pole out in front of Frank Montemurro’s shop.

Bruce and I were shooting location shots while working on an album cover shoot for Darkness on the Edge of Town. The photograph now titled “Frank’s Barbershop” was one of my favorites, because it depicted a young Bruce Springsteen, with his leather jacket and wild hairdo, leaning against the barber pole, with the religious artifacts and plants showing through the window….It seemed to just exude a small town Jersey ambiance, that could have been taken anywhere, but was pure Jersey.

More here.

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Prince, by Bill Marino, an undated photo from Spin’s July 1986 cover story (”Prince: Black Narcissus”), my edit of original via spin

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Paul McCartney and John Lennon, December 17, 1961, by Albert Marrion, via beatlesource.

Albert Marrion recalls “This photo session was done for [Brian] Epstein as a friendly gesture against the wishes of my partner… I took about thirty photographs…but discarded all but sixteen negatives because many showed Lennon and McCartney acting up and spoiling the pose. No doubt, those negatives should have been kept, looking back.”

Wow. Just wow.

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Kim Gordon with Sonic Youth, 1992, by Gie Knaeps

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Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend, The Who, at the UK Bangladesh benefit concert “Goodbye Summer,” September 18, 1971

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Keith Richards, 1975, by Christopher Sykes. Nice pants, man.

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Marc Bolan, T. Rex, 1970, by Barrie Wentzell. “The ’Bopping Imp’ as we used to call him in his acoustic days, becomes the ’Electric Warrior’.

“Marc calls me and says he’s found the ’Love of my life, a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar’. I told him to meet me on Hampstead Heath - a perfect setting for his ’new love’ - and I’d take some pictures. I don’t usually like colour photos as they seem to date more than timeless B&W, but this one still works for me and in memory of a dear lost friend.” via