He is regarded by many of today’s drummers as one of the greatest ever to play. “John didn’t practice or sit around in his room thinking about drumming,” Plant says in the book. “He just did it and was magnificent.”
Composite/Sutcliffe (This color reproduction is likely the actual painting from the black and white photograph)
The Beatles starring in A Midsummer’s Night Dream (April 28, 1964)
“I was there the night he walked into Max’s for the first time in the baby blue suit and the bright orange hair. It was striking. Everybody else in there was dressed in black and this colorful alien came in and just enchanted and charmed us all. He was a divine brilliant special artist and a sweet man, a good man,”
— Bebe Buell, on the first time she saw David Bowie.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1941 - ∞
"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace"
love from a distance, richard siken
Charlie and his chauffeur (mid-1990s)
A Day in the Life (1967)
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin during a soundcheck in Minneapolis, 1975
Elle France - August 31, 1967. Twiggy in Yves Saint Laurent. Photographed by Ronald Traeger.
“On our third night at the apartment Elton and Tony dropped in. Whenever Elton and John saw each other, they loved to have a good gossip about everyone they knew. For an hour they entertained us with their observations and witty one-liners.”
— Loving John, May Pang