1975, Manchester. An early gig for Slaughter & The Dogs

1965, Paris. Marianne spoke fluent French, & would later base herself in the city for many years📸Roger Kasparian

1977, Glasgow. Before Strawberry Switchblade, 16-year-old Jill Bryson was one of the city's early punks📸Peter McArthur

1969, Swinging London. Caroline Coon, shot by Helmut Newton, graces the cover of "Queen" magazine. She featured inside in an article on "Alternative" London

1969, Grenada Studios, Manchester. Chinese actress Lucille Soong, who also used the name Soong Ling, became one of the first non-white characters in a British soap when she played Billy Walker's wealthy Singaporean girlfriend Jasmine Chong on "Coronation Street". Annie Walker did not approve...

1966. Twiggy, Lesley Hornby from Neasden, & boyfriend Justin de Villeneuve, Nigel Davies from London's East End. Villeneuve, also Tiger Davies during his brief boxing career & Christian St Forget when he cut hair in a Mayfair salon, was a genuine Cockney, born within the sound of Bow Bells

1967. A Mod on a motorbike?😲

1964, Los Angeles. Before she was The Queen of Bass, Carol Kaye was a session guitarist. Then she figured there were a lot of guitarists & not as many bass players, & she was red hot on the bass as well...

"Jill Bryson is a third-year student at art school... when she’s not making dresses, she plays lead guitar in an all-girl band called Strawberry Switchblade." Style tips from a 21 year old student with a big future, Jackie magazine, 12 June 1982

1968. Sonia Shaw began performing in folk club aged 13 as Sonja. When this magazine appeared she was appearing as "Crissy" in the West End production of "Hair" as Sonja Kristina, indeed she appears on the original cast LP...

William Franklin Guest. Born OTD in 1941, Atlanta, GA. Died 24/12/2014, Detroit, MI www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3X...

Janie Bradford. Born OTD in 1939, Charleston, MO. Moved to Detroit as a child www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XJ...

Lydia Anne Koch AKA Lydia Lunch. Born OTD in 1959, Rochester, NY www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOmn...

Charles William Miller. Born OTD in 1939, Olathe, KS. Moved to Long Beach, CA, aged two. Died 4/6/1980, Los Angeles, CA www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsrq...

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts. Born OTD in 1941, University College London Hospital, Bloomsbury. Raised in Wembley & Kingsbury. Died 24/8/2021, Chelsea, London www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvII...

Yasuko Onuki of Melt-Banana with a Haribo banana

oh god I've completely lost it at this

1979. Patti married the guy from the support band the following year😀

God Told Me To Do It were a 1980s London based art collective/band who managed to garner a lot of column inches with various scams, including squatting the abandoned Libyan Embassy. However they lacked any tunes as good as "Love Missile F1-11

This guy is a political/PR genius

Read a piece about putting together a tribute band & discovered that the name Alpha Mael is still available for a Sparks sound & lookalike😲

Happy 58th birthday to Ian Svenonious! youtu.be/DYZqNiflBSI?...

Barcelona Women's Mapi Leon is set to join London City Lionesses, & all I can think of is how sore it would be to get a tattoo on your throat😲

Marilyn Monroe as Clara Bow by Richard Avedon for Life, 1958.

Marilyn Monroe as Theda Bara by Richard Avedon for Life, 1958

This guys OK

1982. I seem to recall doing the Odeon AND the Palais was briefly a thing. I guess giving fans the option of sitting, standing or going to both gigs. I'm sure The Banshees & Kraftwerk did it. Possibly The Cure as well?

Simon Johnathon (sic) Gallup. Born OTD in 1960, Duxhurst, Surrey. Raised in nearby Horley www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61m...

Alan Charles Wilder. Born OTD in 1959, Hammersmith, London www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xr...

Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood. Born OTD in 1947, Hillingdon, Middlesex www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwyy...

5/9/1968, Swinging London, Canned Heat are in the road again

27/9/1968, The Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA. John Cale plays his last show with The Velvet Underground📸Alfredo Garcia

That started it, that started it That's how the trouble all began

A cartoon about book festivals for @theguardian.com

1978, NYC

1976, Lou's first publicity photo for his new label Arista

1976 US newspaper ad. "We wanted to be The Bay City Rollers" - Dee Dee Ramone

According to AI this is Debbie Harry😂

The joy of football...

Celtic captain Kelly Clark lifts the Women's Scottish Cup. When The Ghirls became Scotland's first professional side in 2018, Clark, a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, opted to remain part-time. I hope she has a day off booked for tomorrow

I hope the bulb never blew in the "T"😲

Local paper hack fails to grasp that The Fall never did the expected...

The Monkee Nots...

...and taking enough ecstasy to stun an elephant IIRC😂

A goal from Morgan Cross wins The Ghirls the Scottish Cup!

1980, Swindon, XTC's Andy Partridge with some of his toy soldiers📸Virginia Turbett

1976. Art student Richard Boon, schoolfriend of Howard Devoto & future Buzzcocks manager, persuaded the Uni to pay £50 for this exciting new band. 20 folk showed up. Johnny was not impressed. "We've seen your paintings. Is this what we pay our taxes for?"

Wendy Smith. Born OTD in 1963, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4_...