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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 1d

I’m looking forward to this!

I expect it’ll be excellent.

I love the cover too.

Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty thrilled to announce that my book will be published on January 15! It's called David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God. It’s published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and tells the story of Bowie's spiritual explorations - and why they were fundamental to his work

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 1d

I can recommend this!

Essential.

Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social · 1d

Beach Boys Bunting - It gets around! heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com for more of this sort of caper

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 1d

#327ApolloZeroBlair

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 1d

My 10-year old was criticising my taste in films.

“Daddy, you only like boring films like 327 Apollo Zero Blair”

What a great title!

Now I want to design a poster for 327 Apollo Zero Blair.

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 1d

My 10-year old was criticising my taste in films.

“Daddy, you only like boring films like 327 Apollo Zero Blair”

What a great title!

Now I want to design a poster for 327 Apollo Zero Blair.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 2d

My little drawings of what I listened to this week.

Most enjoyable to draw: Dream Attic by Richard Thompson, and Outside Closer by Hood.

Most difficult: Touching the Propeller by Dawn of the Replicants.

I loved listening to all of these except two…

Mini drawings and paintings of records and CDs by…

Joanna Newsom
David Bowie
10cc x 2
Kate Bush
Led Zeppelin
Dawn of the Replicants x 2
Richard Thompson
Kevin Ayers x 3
The Go-Betweens x 2
Hood
The Zincs
Chic
&
The Isley Brothers.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 2d

My collection of A-Team toys, all gathered together in one place for the first time:

Toys of Murdoch, BA Baracas and the Rough Rider A-Team van. All together on my shelf… All in a bit of a state.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 3d

I listened to a few Go-Betweens albums recently which made me want to read this.

It’s really good.
Entertaining and thought provoking.
Recommended.

My hand holding up Tracey Thorn’s
‘My Rock 'n' Roll Friend’ about Lindy Morrison.

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 4d

It’s one of those albums that has never quite clicked for me but I keep on coming back to. Parts of it sound amazing but I couldn’t say which ones!

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From The Sublime… Magazine @fromthesublime.bsky.social · 4d

The last push. Can we make it close enough to the line to make Issue Four happen?

Independent pop culture writing. From Biggles to Allee Willis, true crime to This Life, Meteopolis to the new Monday Night Wars.

www.indiegogo.com/projects/fro...

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 4d

I’d never seen this before.
Isn’t it great?

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Concert poster for Lou Reed’s gig at Glasgow’s Apollo Centre on Monday 3rd June 1974.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant art.

Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 5d

John Alcorn (1969) #Autumn

A man with ginger hair sits in a pile of orange and pink leaves. The image is from the book Never Make Fun of a Turtle, My Son by Martin Gardner, illustrated by John Alcorn

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 9d

Here are my mini drawings of what I listened to this week.

I enjoyed drawing most of them but the most fun was Leonard Cohen.

(The most difficult was Beck.)

Little drawings of albums by…

Pixies
Leonard Cohen
Beck
10cc
Super Furry Animals
The Go-Betweens x 3
Richard Thompson
The Fall
Curtis Mayfield
Sparklehorse
Bob Dylan
Can
and
Tortoise.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 10d

I can only identify about four of these myself but I’m sharing this post because they’re such good designs.

Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 11d

WIN a set of postcards of TV crime series as Penguin book covers. Simply guess which series is depicted on each cover. The earliest was broadcast in 1969. All originated on TV (so no Morse, Marple etc). Email [email protected] & I'll pick three from a digital deerstalker. Deadline: 10 Oct.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 11d

Richard Thompson
(guitar, vocal)

One of the best things about living in Sutton in the early 2000s: so many excellent CDs the library were selling off.

I’d not heard this for years & I’m seriously enjoying it: a really well judged mix & the unreleased stuff is easily up to the standard of the rest.

Richard Thompson
(guitar, vocal)
1989 CD from Hannibal Records
Originally released by Island in 1976
Sold by Sutton Library in c. 2004

Cover concept by Richard Williams.
Design by Bloomfield/Travis.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 12d

I had a little look online and it looks like her name was sometimes spelt Jacquey Chappell and she later starred in Evita for a while in the 80s.

Not much more than that as far as I could see.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 12d

… no Twiggy!

I wonder what became of Jackie Chappell?

Owing to the indisposition of
TWIGGY, the part of Cinderella will be played at this performance by
JACKIE CHAPPELL

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 12d

An irresistible charity shop item I bought today.

A 1974 panto programme… what a cast! I’d have been particularly thrilled to see Roy Kinnear, and of course Lenny the Lion.

But…

Programme for Cinderella at the Casino Theatre.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve just listened to this lovely creation from @mulgraveaudio.bsky.social and I think it’s really something to treasure. Sandra Kerr’s music is so perfect.

Thanks to everyone involved.

My hand holding the 10 inch vinyl record of Patchwuff performed by Valerie Singleton with music by Sandra Kerr.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 15d

My little drawings from last week.

Including a few albums featuring Danny Thompson on the bass.

I most enjoyed drawing Bob and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes’, and the Fall’s ‘Code: Selfish’.

I think I’ve made the Radiohead man look much happier than usual.

Mini drawings of albums by…

Grandaddy
Tom Waits
Chris Bell
Bob Dylan and the Band
Bob Dylan
10cc
The Fall
Pentangle
Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel x 2
Genesis
Talk Talk
John Martyn
Air x 2
UNKLE
The Go-Betweens
Steeleye Span
Van Dyke Parks
A Camp
Queens of the Stone Age
The Strokes
and
Radiohead

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 15d

The Gabriel albums were a treat to hear again - I think his second LP is my favourite.

Not so sure about Genesis… lots to enjoy but I found the keyboards a bit grating!

RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 15d

My little drawings from last week.

Including a few albums featuring Danny Thompson on the bass.

I most enjoyed drawing Bob and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes’, and the Fall’s ‘Code: Selfish’.

I think I’ve made the Radiohead man look much happier than usual.

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RABlack Art @rablackart.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent podcast about an excellent series.

World of Telly @world-of-telly.bsky.social · 19d

A new episode of World of Telly is available now wherever you get your podcasts. This week we travel back to 1960 as we explore The Strange World of Gurney Slade. The video version of this podcast will be released later this weekend.