THE B-52s - THE B-52s, 1979
Original Warner Bros. Records promo poster, 23"x35".
Art direction Su Ab Surd (alias for Tony Wright). Photography by George DuBose.
Scarce and in excellent condition.
£350.00.
Original Warner Bros. Records promo poster, 23"x35".
Art direction Su Ab Surd (alias for Tony Wright). Photography by George DuBose.
Scarce and in excellent condition.
£350.00.
Original Rolling Stones Records promo poster, 23.5"x16.5".
Art direction by Peter Corriston, art by Hubert Kretzschmar.
The last of Corriston's four-in-a-row sleeves (three with Kretzschmar) for the band's last vital period.
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Original EMI promo poster, 16"x11.5".
Original photography by Matayoshi Sukita.
Scarce poster for one of the classic T. Rex line up's last major hits. It reached number 2 in September 1972.
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Original Polydor US in-store card promo display, 12"x12".
Design by Bill Smith.
Photography by Andrew Douglas.
The photograph is of Benjamin Clemens' 1919 bronze cast sculpture 'The St John's Ambulance Bearers'. The image relates to the album's planned concept of three childhood friends reunited after war.
Original promo material for the album is scarce.
£250.00 conservation framed.
Original pre-release promo poster, 40"x60"
Artwork and collage by Peter Blake, cover design Simon Halfon.
Peter Blake's painting of a young Paul Weller with a photo of his older self, surrounded by images from childhood, Mod talismans, poetry and art.
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Original CBS U.S. in-store card promo display, 12¼"x12¼".
Design by Ray Lowry.
Photography by Penny Smith.
Scarce original release American in-store display.
Designer Ray Lowry: "I showed little artistic or academic promise but cared fanatically for the most arcane areas of the holy rock'n'roll thunder which had crashed down upon us."
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Original promo poster, 60"x40".
Design by Peter Barrett.
The image of the boy, as featured on the album cover, was later identified as Anthony O'Shaughnessy, photographed during the evacuation of Catholic neighbourhoods in Belfast during the riots of August 1969. The example we featured in our original 2006 Rock Explosion exhibition generated considerable interest when it was picked by BBC Northern Ireland, leading to interviews with Anthony O'Shaughnessy (the boy in the image) and his meeting with Kevin Rowland. Very scarce poster.
See here for the television news feature.
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Original Polydor U.S. in-store card promo display, 12¼"x12¼".
Design by Bill Smith and The Jam.
Photography by Andrew Rosen and Martyn Goddard.
The sleeve design was a pastiche of the BBC's series of sound effects LPs, one of which Paul Weller had apparently come across at Polydor's studios. See here for an example.
Original promo material for the album is uncommon, this card display format particularly so.
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Original Rolling Stone Magazine promo poster, 20"x29"
Photography by Bill King.
Interesting and scarce poster advertising Rolling Stone's 1976 feature on Patti Smith written by Dave Marsh: 'The Coal Stove visions of a factory girl'.
Bill King was a celebrated American photographer. His distinctively exuberant and joyful style for Vogue and Vanity Fair broke conventions for fashion photography at the time.
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Original Arista Records promo poster, 24"x34".
Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe.
£1100.00 conservation framed.
Original MCA Records promo poster 18"x24".
Sleeve drawing by John Entwistle.
John Entwistle: "We were taking it in turns to do the covers. It was Pete's turn before me and we did the Quadrophenia cover, which cost about the same as a small house back then, about 16,000 pounds. My cover cost 32 pounds."
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Original Chrysalis Records promo poster 30.5"x23".
£225.00
Original press photo, 10"x8".
"What a swell party this is...". Original press photograph, with agency label, with Bowie and fellow stars backstage at the 17th Grammy Awards in New York. Bowie - at the peak of a period of infamous excess - presented the award for Best Female Rhythm and Blues performance to Aretha Franklin.
Click here for original press label on reverse
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Original Chrysalis promo poster, 12"x38".
Design by Ramey Communications, photography Martyn and Edo Goddard.
'Parallel Lines' was Blondie's third album and their greatest success, with four hit singles coming off it. The design captured perfectly their New Wave/classic Pop mix.
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Original Casablanca Records promo poster 23"x35".
Art Direction and Design by Chris Whorf/Gribbit!. Photography Ron Slenzak.
Original poster from the pinnacle of P-Funk, along with the previous album 'Mothership Connection', also highlighted bottom left. Very scarce.
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Original Rolling Stones Records US promo poster, 22"x14".
Scarce original American boxing-style card stock promo poster, featuring the album's original unauthorised artwork of Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, Farrah Fawcett et al - click here for detail - whose threatened legal action saw the cover withdrawn.
The subsequent album and poster printings took out both the actresses' and the band's images.
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Original U.S. promo poster, 24"x24"
Design Ray Lawrence. Photography David Bailey.
The original concepts for the album's design by Hipgnosis were rejected and Jagger instead returned to Decca-era stalwart David Bailey. Bailey's image of a veiled Jagger was quirkily inspired by Katherine Hepburn in 'The African Queen', but the ghostly images of the band tied in perfectly with the voodoo tinge of the album's Jamaica-recorded opening track.
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Original U.S. promo poster, 24"x24"
Design & art direction John Pasche, photography Phil Jude.
Infamous culinary masterpiece from the end of the band's greatest period. Recorded in Jamaica, Bill Wyman remembers: "We would be driven to Byron Lee's studio through downtown Kingston. Two large, double gates guarded by the man with the shotgun would open and let us in and then close behind us."
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Two original Rolling Stones Records promo posters, each 12 ¼"x12 ¼".
Design by Peter Corriston, Photographs by Hubert Kretzschmar, Paintings by Christian Piper.
Peter Corriston also designed the superb sleeves for 'Some Girls' (again with Hubert Kretzschmar) and Led Zeppelin's 'Physical Graffiti'.
These are the superior card stock printings.
£250.00 conservation framed.
Two original card stock Epic/Legacy Records promo posters, each 12 ¼"x12 ¼".
Design by Josh Cheuse. Photography (band) Penny Smith, (Broadway) Bob Gruen.
Great design for the well received 64 track box set compilation. 'Clash on Broadway' strongly reaffirmed the band's impact and legacy after the unsatisfactory coda of 'Cut the Crap' only a few years previously.
£180.00 conservation framed.
Original press photograph 10"x8".
Full press details (curiously with two incorrect dates) on reverse.
Original photograph from Wham!'s warm up gig at Brixton Academy before their farewell show at Wembley Stadium four days later.
£185.00 conservation framed.
Original press photograph 10"x8".
Full press details on reverse.
Original photograph from Wham!'s farewell concert at Wembley Stadium.
£185.00 conservation framed.
Original press photograph 10"x8".
Full press details on reverse.
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley reunited in spirited fashion for the International Aids Day Benefit Concert in support of The Terrence Higgins Trust the year after Wham! broke up, performing 'Everything She Wants'. This shot shows the moment - clearly visible on the video of the event - when George called Andrew on stage.
£185.00 conservation framed.
Original Warner Bros. Records promo poster, 24"x24".
Design by Emil Schult. Photography by Günter Fröhling.
The last of Kraftwerk's pioneering albums, 'Computer World' had a seminal impact on U.S. Electro, Hip Hop and Detroit Techno.
£385.00 conservation framed.
Original Pace Minerva poster, 33" x 23.5".
Artwork by Roger Dean.
Whilst his brother Martyn designed and fitted out the new Virgin shops, brother Roger worked on the graphics side, creating the famous logo of the label's early years.
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Original US in-store card promo display, 12¼"x12¼".
Design by Paul Weller, Simon Halfon.
Photography by Peter Anderson.
Peter Anderson moved from Scotland to London in 1980 and soon secured regular work for the NME, where he met Paul Weller to shoot the paper's Avengers pastiche 1982 Christmas cover. Both valued a degree of sponteneity and humour, and Weller commissioned Anderson for a photo shoot in February in France - a chilly Boulogne convincingly passing for springtime Paris.
£145.00 conservation framed.
Original Chrysalis promo poster, 38"x20".
Art by Martin Hoffman.
Autoamerican saw Blondie's focus becoming more diffuse, but 'Rapture' was a groundbreaking early Pop-Rap classic.
Martin Hoffman became part of the NASA Art Program in the 1980s, assigned to document five shuttle launches, with special access to restricted areas. These paintings were exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
For the artwork, the band were photographed on a rooftop at Broadway and 8th Avenue.
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Original Rolling Stones Records promo poster, 23.5"x16.5".
Art by Philip Castle.
The album cover painting was created by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert but the actual promotional material artwork – featuring a much more striking image interpreting the lyrics “If I could stick my pen in my heart and spill it all over the stage” - was created by British Pop Artist Philip Castle in a style that could sync with Peellaert’s artwork.
Amongst many other commissions, Philip Castle created the famous poster artwork for 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Full Metal Jacket' for Stanley Kubrick. He also created the ‘teardrop’ on David Bowie’s shoulder on Brian Duffy’s album cover photograph for ‘Diamond Dogs’.
This poster is hard to come by.
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London Records sleeve proof, 24.5"x13.5"
Rare original 1971 sleeve proof, on the London label for release in Japan. Although later compilations outside of the band's control were of low quality, 'Stone Age' put together an interesting selection of more obscure or not previously released sides from the band's 64-66 archive.
£485.00 conservation framed.
Original CBS promo poster, 42"x44".
The superb original U.S. poster, a Warhol-inspired take on the famous LP cover. Pennie Smith's shot of Paul Simonon smashing his bass was captured at New York City's Palladium (Smith needed persuading that the shot was acceptable). Ray Lowry's lettering invoked Elvis's debut LP. The ambitious double album threw down the gauntlet to the heavyweights of the past, Dylan, The Beatles, The Stones.
This poster has survived in excellent condition.
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Original promotional flyer, 6"x8".
After the break up with Mick Jones in September 1983, Strummer and Simonon regrouped with new band members on an extended self-financed tour. That the experiment ended a year later with the Bernie Rhodes-engineered debacle of the Cut The Crap album tends to obscure how revitalised Strummer was in this period. Greil Marcus: "I'd never seen Strummer more exhilarated, or more convincing".
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Original Harvest/Capitol promo poster, 36"x24".
Design and photography: Hipgnosis. Illustration: George Hardie for Hipgnosis.
Original in-store promo poster, illustrating the band's previous lp releases. The origin of probably the most famous album sleeve of all time stems from the band's desire to avoid another photographic image in favour of a simpler graphic. Hipgnosis's Aubrey Powell found inspiration in a prism image in a 1950's French book of early colour photography. This is the only original 1973 poster design for the album we've yet encountered.
£485.00 conservation framed.
Original Hamilton exhibition poster, design by Jamie Reid.
26"x38.5".
The very scarce Fuck Forever poster was first printed for an exhibition of Jamie's work in 1986 at Hamilton's Gallery, 13 Carlos Place, London W1.
On the back is artwork and text in black & white by Jon Savage & Jon Wozencroft, with illustrations of Jamie's work and his influences.
The original artwork was made in 1978 as a prop for 'The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle' film.
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Original Island promo poster, 60"x40".
Design by Jean-Paul Goude.
V. scarce large format poster (note: this format of poster was intended for flyposting, so record companies ensured their details were left off).
Jean-Paul Goude: Would you agree that you have always had a problem with authority?
Grace Jones: Yes, definitely.... And I think that is what contributed to my masculinization. I deliberately challenged men's roles. In fact, I survived by taking on both roles.
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Original Island Records promo poster, 36"x24".
Design by Jean Paul Goude.
Probably the single most famous image of Grace Jones, Jean Paul Goude's 1981
'Blue-black in black on brown' created as oil paint on cut up photo.
Jean Paul Goude: "Grace was very open. We worked together to create this intimidating character. I mean, she's naturally intimidating anyway...I tried to emphasize that body shape through a sort of minimalist German expressionism, with its games of shadows and its angular shapes."
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Original Island Records promo poster, 24"x24".
Design and photography by Jean Paul Goude.
Jean Paul Goude's amazing image was a brilliant illusion. The convincing yet impossible pose was created in 1978 by photographing Grace in a variety of poses, some supported by clear acrylic boxes, and then reassembling the cut-up Ektachrome transparencies: see original here.
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Original Island/Manhattan promo poster, 36"x24".
Design by Jean Paul Goude.
Initially an NY disco diva, with designer and partner Jean-Paul Goude Grace Jones created a radical androgynous new image and musical metamorphosis, one of the most memorable of the era.
Goude can be seen creating the bold cut-up image at the beginning of the video for the single. Goude had employed a similar approach for the sleeve for Cristina's 1984 album ‘Sleep It Off’.
The original cut-up can be seen here
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Original promo poster, 39"x28".
Design by Jean-Paul Goude.
One Man Show was the name both of Grace Jones' performances at London's Drury Lane Theatre and New York's Savoy Theater in 1981 and of the video released the following year. This poster was created in formats for both.
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Original promo poster, 33"x24".
Art by John Pasche.
John Pasche not only designed the band's classic tour posters of the early 70's, but also created the 'lips' logo in 1971 for the Stones' own label. His work is among the very best of the era.
Beware: Repros are very common on this poster.
£685.00 conservation framed.
Original CBS promo poster, 24"x 24".
Design by Ray Lowry.
Photography by Penny Smith.
This UK-printed poster doesn't feature the 'Two for a Fiver' tag, meaning it was most likely intended for promotion elsewhere in Europe, in particular Ireland.
Penny Smith had spotted Paul Simonon's growing frustration with the Palladium's audience that night and her attention enabled to her - whilst backing away! - to shoot the exact moment when the bass guitar came smashing down, capturing one of the defining images in rock history.
All original UK posters on the album are notably scarce.
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Original EMI promo poster, 38 ¼" x 27 ¾".
Artwork by Jamie Reid.
Original poster for The Pistols' incendiary debut single. EMI withdrew the single after the Bill Grundy 'Today' show debacle, contributing to the poster's rarity.
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Original Virgin promo poster, 39" x 27 ¼".
Artwork by Jamie Reid.
