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Syd Barrett Pink Floyd, October 1967, ‘JunkYard’ photoshoot by Adrian Boot.

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Young Annie Lennox photographed by Dave Stewart. Source

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Annie Lennox, photoshoot for The Tourists’ second album Reality Effect, 1979

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Supremes & friend

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For all your punk/new wave needs in Lubbock, Texas, 1982.

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Nancy and Sid 1977

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48 years ago

Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978

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In The Rock 5/8/1965: Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker directs Bob Dylan in the casually brilliant clip for “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, outside the Savoy Hotel in London. In the background: Allen Ginsberg and Bob Neuwirth. #BobDylan #RockHonorRoll

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𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣 Starwood Amphitheater in Antioch, Tennessee, August 26, 1988.

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fiona apple, 1997

"She Found Out the Way Nobody Should Ever Find Out"

Most people who heard about the end of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore's marriage got the headline version: indie rock's golden couple had split, a midlife crisis was involved, another woman. The headline was true but it barely scratches the surface of what Gordon actually lived through in the year before that announcement. Around mid-2010, while the band was still doing occasional shows following a long tour, Gordon woke up one morning to do yoga. Thurston was still asleep. She looked down at his phone. What she found there began an entire year of what she later described as a pattern of lies, ultimatums, and promises that were broken almost as soon as they were made. She said she felt herself being turned slowly into his mother rather than his partner, the one responsible for managing his behavior, for making decisions he refused to face himself. She went through his laptop. She found hotel receipts and communications and photographs that mapped out a life he had been living in parallel to theirs. And what made it so specifically painful was that the other woman was not a stranger from outside their world. She had been inside their circle for years, first connected through a former band associate and then working directly with Moore on a literary project. Gordon had met her. They had been photographed together at events, smiling. The intimacy of that particular betrayal, the fact that it had been built so carefully and so close, was something that went beyond the ordinary heartbreak of infidelity. It was the dismantling of a shared reality. She later said she found some compassion for Moore, but she was very clear that compassion and forgiveness are two entirely different things. Thirty years. One morning. A phone face-up on the nightstand. How do you rebuild yourself when the life you thought was real turns out to have had a room you never knew existed?

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