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MUSIC & MUSICIANS
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago
The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January 4, 1969 Jeff Lowenthal & Robert Schaffner, Forewords by Mike Vernon, MBE, & Marshall Chess
A crucial moment in the history of one of the most popular bands in music history, Fleetwood Mac, and its beginnings as a blues band in the late 1960s
Many never-before-seen color and black-and-white photos from the legendary January 1969 session at Chess Studios in Chicago
Includes photos of Fleetwood Mac guitarists Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, and Jeremy Spencer jamming with Chicago blues-scene legends Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, and Buddy Guy
This fascinating book showcases the legendary Fleetwood Mac blues session at Chicago’s Chess Studios in January 1969. Taken by the only photographer present, some of these photos were originally shown on the first release of the album recorded that day, Fleetwood Mac in Chicago. Now, for the first time, all of the color and black-and-white photographs shot that day are presented in one collection, including many never before published. Along with founding Fleetwood Mac members Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie, the major Chicago blues musicians featured at the session, including Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, and Buddy Guy, are shown in high-quality images, created directly from the author’s original negatives. Forewords by both producers present at the session—Mike Vernon, MBE, and Marshall Chess—provide the setting for the music created that day.
Jeff Lowenthal began photography as an enthusiastic amateur but soon became a professional after his images were featured in DownBeat magazine.
Robert Schaffner grew up in a variety of states, until his family finally settled in the Chicagoland area. His hometown and his interest in British blues made this album a perfect and inevitable topic for this book.
The Art of Punk
Posters + Flyers + Fanzines + Record Sleeves Russ Bestley, Alex Ogg & Zoë Howe, Foreword by Vivien Goldman
The definitive chronicle on the graphic art of punk style, from period concert posters and flyers to fanzines and record sleeves, and much more
Over 900 images featuring such legendary bands as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Damned, the New York Dolls, and the Clash
Also traces the punk underground scenes throughout Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, South America, the former USSR, Scandinavia, China, and Africa
Celebrating a wide range of punk design in vinyl cover art, posters, flyers, fanzines, and other ephemera, The Art of Punk highlights the movement primarily within graphic design and print while also considering its impact on wider popular culture. Punk was based on immediacy—an often inspired amateurism and underground, close-knit communities that burned brightly but were not intended to extend beyond the gig, the event, the scene, the moment. The book is arranged chronologically, as well as by genre, and features more than 900 visual examples by uncredited artists and internationally renowned designers and design groups, alongside interviews with, and commentary by, many of the artists concerned.
Author, visual artist, and sometime musician Zoë Howe has produced acclaimed biographies of the Slits, Poly Styrene, the Jesus & Mary Chain, Wilko Johnson, Stevie Nicks, Florence + the Machine, Lee Brilleaux, and others. Vivien Goldman’s can-do attitude and outernational insights have been on display in journalism, books, radio, television, university teaching, and more. Alex Ogg is an author and journalist whose books include The Hip Hop Years, No More Heroes, and Independence Days. Russ Bestley is a principal lecturer at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.
