i know this photo is up on one of the other blogs i read, (check plannet mondo for some awsome rare footage of marc on stomping form) but i saw it and had to add something about its history....after all it has to be one of the most iconic photos of marc bolan there is. credited to ringo star on the sleeve notes....taken a week after filming the mad hatter scene in the born to boogie film, the shutterman was in fact none other than toni visconi, marcs producer (at the time the worlds producer) one of twenty shots taken on the picnic they all had after finishing born to boogie.
life was so simple then, another world. Could you imagine the spice girls and their production team chilling at a picnic , flicking off photos of each other and a week later saying 'ooohh that's a nice one lets put that on our new album?'
eerr no
see you in the next life
Friday 14 September 2007
slip sliding away....
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3 comments:
Its a tip top pic, done when pop star's didn't need stylists. I think Richard Hawley said if you're a rocker and you need a stylist your in the wrong job.
Slider is such a great album too, maybe his finest?
I always loved that cover, but in my teens, actually found the picture a bit creepy. Something about the grainy look, like an edgy still from a silent movie from the 1930's...
Piley
slider is soooo complete as an album, i guess marcs combination of ego and talent were in perfect balence at this point the ego talent ratio kinda slid after this....
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