this fab lady is toni young of punk band red c
Been a really long time since I listened to Red C. This is a fucking perfect photo though and serves as a reminder that I should check them out again.
THE MAN
hey bo diddley
Always reblog. This is from around the time of his Black Gladiator album from 1970. Dude was looking more punk than punk before punk.
Warhol was a thoroughly fucked up piece of shit in a lot of ways but dude had a really good eye for people. These are great photos.
British-Somali songwriter, feminist, and musician Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, also known by her stage name Poly Styrene, is most notably known for being the founder of punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
She was born in Bromley, London, and ran away from home at the age of 15 with just £3 in her pocket, hitchhiking from one music festival to another. This adventure ended when she stepped on a rusty nail while bathing in a stream and had to be treated for septicaemia.
After seeing the Sex Pistols performance at the Pier Pavillion Hastings on her 19th birthday she thought that anyone could do what they were doing and so decided to form her own Punk Rock band, putting an ad in the paper calling for ‘young punx who want to stick it together’, and that was the beginning of X-Ray Spex. She eventually became a passionate feminist and posted a blog dedicated to women’s rights and defense of women.
She was described by Billboard as the “archetype for the modern-day feminist punk”; because she wore dental braces, stood against the typical sex object female of 1970’s rock star, sported a gaudy Dayglo wardrobe, and was of mixed race. She was “one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history, male or female”.
Needless to say, she was a total bad ass.
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it’s poly fucking styrene omg
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what an adorable babe with braces
Poly Styrene Appreciation Blog
140 YEARS OF BLACK GAY MALE COUPLES IN PHOTOS
This is a really cool archive! Lots of cool old photos!
Be aware though that there are some old racist caricature drawings in there too. Important history, but always a bummer.
David Bowie, ph. Steven Schapiro, New Mexico, 1975
When I was first photographing David Bowie, he kept changing the most fantastic outfits so quickly that many of them never got photographed. He would come out of the dressing room and before I could lift up a camera he went running back to make an adjustment. He would return twenty minutes later as a totally different person. / Steve Schapiro
This is a good photo, but I mean most photos of david bowie are good photos.
