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THE CLASH -RUDE BOY, 1980

Original U.S. 1-sheet poster.
27"x41"

The UK posters for the Clash semi-documentary are dull as dishwater, the polar opposite of the electric American 1-sheet film poster.



£300.00 conservation backed.



MORRISSEY - KILL UNCLE TOUR, 1991.

Original HMV promo poster, 61"x41"

Original full-size concert poster for the 1991 Kill Uncle Tour, advertising the October Hammersmith Odeon and Kilburn National dates, surviving in excellent rolled condition.
Very scarce.




£150.00


MARC BOLAN, T.REX 1976.

Original promo poster, 20"x30"
Artwork by Hamilton K. Wilson.

Returned to the UK and cleaned up, Bolan's second album without producer Tony Visconti saw him revitalised and re-energised by the early stirrings of Punk, which he immediately grasped and proceeded to promote on tour and on his TV show.

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ELVIS PRESLEY - 1960

Original 8"x10" press photograph.

Probably the most famous draftee in history, Presley's stint lasted from 24 March 1958 to March 5, 1960. This shot is from the 2 March 1960 New Jersey press conference the day after he left the army in Germany. Later in April began the timely filming of 'GI Blues'. The King was back.



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ELVIS ON TOUR, 1972


U.S. 3-sheet poster
41"x81"

Discontinued in the early 1980s, the 3-sheet was one of the most dramatic and effective of film poster formats. With print runs only in the low-to-mid hundreds, the survival of any 3-sheet is fortuitous.

Elvis loved flashy, sharp outfits ever since he bought his clothes from the Lansky Bros. in Memphis, and he quickly picked up on the extravagent style of black musicians (always one of his touchstones) such as Earth Wind and Fire in the early 70's.


£850.00 linen backed and framed.




DAVID BOWIE - LODGER, 1977.

Original RCA promo cut-out mobile, 13"x29"

Very rare in-store promo piece. The striking cover was a collaboration between Bowie, British pop artist Derek Boshier and the photographer Duffy. Boshier was a 1959 Royal College of Art contemporary of David Hockney and Allen Jones. Duffy had worked on the 'Aladdin Sane' cover and also took the portrait photos for 'Scary Monsters'. To suggest Bowie falling, a special table was constructed that his body completely hid.

NOTE: This item has been custom framed to recreate the original effect.


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DAVID BOWIE - STATION TO STATION, 1976.

Original RCA promo poster, 19.5"x24.5"
Design Kevin Cann, photograph by Steve Shapiro.

This scarce poster features the originally intended colour cover shot, from the film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth', changed by Bowie to black and white to sync with the German Expressionist feel he was developing. Note: Fakes of the colour lp sleeve are in circulation. Some flat proofs were made and survive but no actual sleeves.


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SEX PISTOLS/CLASH - THE PUNK ROCK MOVIE, 1978

Original U.S. 1-sheet poster.
27"x41"

Very scarce 1-sheet, way superior to the UK posters, for Don Letts's film, mainly shot by him with a Super 8 at the Roxy Club, where he famously DJ'd. A true document, the poster gives equal billing to the audience of original Punk 'faces' along with Siouxsie, Generation X, Johnny Thunders, and more.


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THE BEATLES - A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, 1964.

Photography by Robert Freeman.

Original British quad poster.
30"x40"

An experienced Jazz photographer, ROBERT FREEMAN met
The Beatles in August 1963 and subsequently photographed and designed five of their album covers (MEET THE BEATLES, A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, BEATLES FOR SALE, HELP!, RUBBER SOUL).


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SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - U.S. TOUR POSTER, 1986

Cushway Litho. Art by Victor Moscoso.
22"x30"

West Coast underground comix and poster legend, Victor Moscoso unusually had serious academic training, studying art at Cooper Union, Yale and the San Francisco Art Institute, where he became an instructor. Moscoso's contrasting colors and vibrating edges was influenced by the Bauhaus's Josef Albers, his teacher at Yale.


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BLONDIE - DEBBIE HARRY, 1979.

Original Paul Cox photograph.
10"x8"

Wonderful Debbie Harry portrait from Blondie's appearance on BBC TV's Top Of The Pops 1979 Christmas/New Year Special, on which they performed 'Dreaming'.

Detailed credit stamp on verso.

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