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Marvin Gaye, Soul Train (1974) ♡

DONNA SUMMER American Bandstand Interview (1976)

shirts that go hard: rock n' roll edition

hang one night with yonce, i’ll make you famous

hang one night with yonce, i’ll make you famous

Iman in Chanel Haute Couture with David Bowie, Cape Town, South Africa, 1995 - Ph. Bruce Weber

“The city looked big and I felt big ‘cause I was part of the landscape. I’m an artist. When you tell people that, they usually say: ‘What’s your medium?’ I usually say: ‘Extra large.’”

Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81 (2000) dir. Edo Bertoglio

I remember we were driving, driving in your car Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped ‘round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

FAST CAR, TRACY CHAPMAN

Marilyn Monroe in the ‘Chair’ sitting, Los Angeles, November 1960. Photo by Eve Arnold.

My consciousness strays, but it doesn’t matter, I find the greatest serenity in hallucination.

Clarice Lispector

Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat by Stephen Torton, 1982.

In 1996, Madonna wrote an article for The Guardian titled Me, Jean-Michel, Love and Money to commemorate a Basquiat exhibition that she sponsored at the Serpentine Gallery in London:

I am not sure if I met Jean-Michel in an art gallery or a night-club, but in those days you couldn’t tell the difference.

He had the presence of a movie star and I was crazy about him. He carried crumpled wads of money in the pockets of his paint-splattered Armani suits. Money he felt guilty about having. Money he always gave away to less fortunate friends.

I remember Jean-Michel’s tag, Samo, which was accompanied with a little crown and I remember thinking he was a genius. He was. But he wasn’t very comfortable with it.

I remember all the girls were in love with him and one night I looked out of his loft window and saw a girl whose heart he had broken, burning his paintings in a big bonfire. I wanted to stop her and rescue his paintings, but he didn’t seem to mind. He said it was their fate.

I remember him getting up at 3 am and sleep-walking to an empty canvas. He stood inches away from it and proceeded to paint the most minuscule figures and what he did was so beautiful and intellectual and I stood watching him with dumbfounded amazement.

He was one of the few people I was truly envious of. But he didn’t know how good he was and was plagued with insecurities. He used to say he was jealous of me because music is more accessible and it reached more people. He loathed the idea that art was appreciated by an elite group.

When I broke up with him he demanded I give back the paintings he had given me. Not because he didn’t think I deserved them, but because he was obsessed with the idea that I would sell them.

He was so paranoid. Of course, I was heart-broken but complied. Now I couldn’t buy one of his paintings if I wanted to.

When I heard that Jean-Michel had died I was not surprised. He was too fragile for this world.

I remember one summer having dinner with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel at Mr Chow’s and feeling like the luckiest girl in the world to have known him. To have known all of them. Now they’re all gone. But not forgotten.

Source: The Guardian - March 5, 1996

Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at the Factory, 1984.

Photos by Andy Warhol

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix photographed by Bruce Weber, 1991

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho, 1991

Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Sabina Sarnitz, 1986.

Black is King: MOOD 4 EVA (2020) dir. Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule & Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter

sônia braga in gabriela (1983), dir. bruno barreto

2 PAC passport photo (1995)

Ayrton Senna 1984

Cindy Crawford, Versace, El Mirage, 1990 - Ph. Herb Ritts

Marilyn Monroe attending the 17th Annual Golden Globe Awards, March 1960.

fashion icon lewis hamilton → f1 70th anniversary grand prix at silverstone, 2020

hoes mad edits but make it Ayrton Senna because why not

Slash during a panel discussion on feminism.

AYRTON SENNA Canadian Grand Prix of 1990

1970s Soul Train Moments

Ike & Tina Turner - aired: April 22, 1972 

The Sylvers - aired: September 22, 1973 

The Jackson 5 - aired: October 27, 1973

Marvin Gaye - aired: February 16, 1974

Sylvia Robinson and The Moments - aired: May 11, 1974

Billy Preston - aired: September 7, 1974 

LaBelle - aired: December 7, 1974 

Chaka Khan - aired: February 15, 1975

BB King, James Brown and Bobby “Blue” Bland - aired: March 15, 1975

Donna Summer - aired: March 20, 1976 

Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff address 2021 rumours