There can be none more Old Wave an illustration than this (pencil? charcoal?) portrait of Joe Cocker, surely?
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Alan Aldridge, one of the inventors of the graphic style that loosely informs the poster.
Ah, Chris Stainton Band backed up Joe Cocker.
Prior to that Stainton and Cocker had been in the Grease Band - that's pretty darn Old Wavey
Stainton crops up over and over - backing up Clapton, playing with Boxer (alongside Patto, as mentioned on this concert advert)
A supergroup signed to a five-album deal worth 1.2 million wouldyoubelieve?
This second album is when Stainton come on board as "additional personnel"
No-one more resolutely Old Wave in his persona and music either, I think. When many of his contemporaries, from Marianne Faithfull to Robert Palmer to King Crimson, were jumping on the New Wave bandwagon with some success, he made an attempt that was an abject failure.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I have to think of my least favorite performance of the rock era, I think about Elton John's I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues, Billy Joel's Uptown Girl, Invisible Touch by Genesis. Joe Cocker's Woodstock rendition of With A Little Help From My Friends is definitely up there.
Good lord - I'm not 100 percent sure that's even supposed to be Cocker. As to the technique, it looks like a B&W print of a color airbrush, which very firmly affixes it in the early 70s (think Guy Peellaert or Terry Gilliam) - not quite hippie, not quite punk, closest to glam and retro-50s sheen
ReplyDeleteSee the cover to the American Graffiti soundtrack -https://www.discogs.com/master/129933-Various-41-Original-Hits-From-The-Sound-Track-Of-American-Graffiti
DeleteNow that I think of it, it signified glam/retro in the early/mid 70s, then disco in the later part of the decade
Reminds me of some of the Grateful Dead’s 1970s artwork, too. The cover of Europe 72, for example
DeleteGood Lord indeed!
DeleteForensic analysis of the artist's technique!
DeleteYeah at first I thought it was of Chris Stainton, whoever he was
Yes it is in the sort of vague genre of the Europe 72 style. Also this illustrator who did a lot of Penguin books at that time, Alan Aldridge, but did some work for the Beatles - The Illustrated Lyrics. And did the cover for the Who's A Quick One. In fact he actually looked (in early 70s) a bit like the bloke in the poster for the Joe Cocker / Chris Stainton concert. I've added Aldridge's pic to the post.
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