From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #373 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, June 23 2012 Volume 15 : Number 373 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Book him Danno [strandski@waitrose.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 21 Jun 2012 17:58:38 +0100 From: strandski@waitrose.com Subject: [AVALON] Book him Danno Not sure if Peter Schlesinger’s A Chequered Past: My Visual Diary of the 60s and 70s has been discussed here before … http://pschlesinger.com/checkered_past.html There’s a review by Michael Bracewell (the book’s cited in his Roxy tome) here… http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/mar/06/highereducation.news Most of the photos can be viewed here… http://www.trunkarchive.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&SEARCH=1&SN=PETER+SCHLESINGER&FT=&VBID=2P0UBHOCP3IG&PN=2#/SearchResult&SEARCH=1&SN=PETER+SCHLESINGER&FT=&VBID=2P0UBHOCP3IG&PN=2 … including the one of Ferry, Price and Boman prancing around in Colville Terrace from 1974. I always thought Ferry’s bad shirt and gold belt made him look more Essex-soul boy than Northern-soul boy. It all made sense when I read this in Robert Elms’ very entertaining The Way We Wore: A Life In Threads… “The main reason cap sleeves crossed over is that Bryan Ferry wore them on the front cover of his first solo album. Street fashion rises up from below, like cream and damp, but certain celebrities can give it a major shove up. Ferry was undeniably cool, one of the very few pop stars who could carry any stylistic conviction, and he was also good at discovering what was going on down there in the damp basement of youth culture. The Roxy Music front man made a few well-documented forays to the funk clubs, and when he combed his hair into a quiff and donned a cap-sleeve T-shirt with a gold chain draped across the neck it sent the whole look into the mainstream.” And this is what Schlesinger says about the Ferry… “At an afternoon tea party in the studio of Jose Fonseca, owner of London’s top model agency, this clique of friends showed up. Stewart Grimshaw owned Provan’s, the most amusing restaurant in London, where we’d laugh just reading the menu of highly inventive dishes he insisted had their roots in English cuisine; his Camembert ice cream had people running out the door. Bryan Ferry, like many rock stars, had an art school background and had been a student of Mark Lancaster’s. I had met him through Antony Price, who called the sophisticated collector of English decorative art and painting a “taste tarantula”. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #373 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest