Poised on the cusp of no wave: Richard Hell and James Chance, by Julia Gorton. James Chance was founder/mad frontman of Flaming Youth, The Contortions, James White & The Blacks and Pill Factory. Richard Hell is a punk musician, poet and writer, best known for penning “Blank Generation”.

“Beneath the scowls of derision, the antagonism and acrimony, and the nearly unbearable shrillness that was our soundtrack, we were howling with delight, laughing like lunatics in the madhouse that was New York City, thrilled to be rubbing up against the freaks and other outcasts, who somehow, for some unknowable reason, had all decided to run to land’s end and all at once scream their bloody heads off.”
- Lydia Lunch

Antony Price’s sketches for Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure (Amanda Lear) and Siren (Jerry Hall).

Antony’s vision of glam was responsible for styling and art directing Roxy Music’s iconic LP sleeves, which helped define the band’s retro/futuristic pop aesthetic, while creating some pretty enduring images in its “Roxy girls”. He and Bryan Ferry were some of the first few people to see the possibilities of a synergy between fashion and music.

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