![]() A yellow-orange rayographed image of a distorted reclining female figure. That, too, carried overtones reaching out to connect. But ‘Vanilla Fudge’ was special (August 1967, US Atco 33-224). The first Spirit album, with its jigsaw of photo-segments assembling a face – with the bald cranium-section, to a lesser degree, carried a quite disconcerting sleeve-design that also snagged at the attention. ![]() The composite painting made up of different elements of the group’s faces fused into one carried all the weird-art implications any pretentious kid could desire. The moment first glimpsed framed in the record-shop window – yes, there were local record-shops which had displays back then, I knew I had to own it. ![]() I’m thinking of ‘Forever Changes’, the third album by Love. Big old twelve-inch vinyl LP’s offered the designer scope and opportunity to create some arresting images that adhere to the mind. Many segments are being upgraded to high-resolution clips as part of UMe’s curation efforts.Album sleeves are important. Thanks to a 2020 deal with Univeral Music, thousands of clips from the program’s library are being made available digitally for the first time. He died at 73 on October 13, 1974, in New York. Sullivan was born September 28, 1901, in Harlem and grew up in the New York City suburb of Port Chester, NY. For their first song, the Brits, at their dandiest, with Brian Jones playing the recorder and Bill Wyman bowing an acoustic bass, first performed their hit “Ruby Tuesday.” For their second song, they’d been cautioned earlier in the day that the CBS censors did not want to hear them sing the title phrase of “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” Instead, they were to substitute the phrase “Let’s spend some time together.” What happened-check Mick Jagger’s eye roll at 4:28 in the clip-became rock ’n’ roll history. 15, 1967, by which time they’d long become established as rock’s bad boys. Nonetheless, the teenage viewers needed their fix of the day’s biggest rock stars and Sullivan obliged, continuing to invite the Stones back after their initial 1964 appearance, in 1965, ’66 and then again on Jan. Where he saw the Beatles as well-mannered gentlemen, he thought the Stones were a bunch of rude slobs. The Rolling Stones-“Ruby Tuesday,” “Let’s Spend the Night Together” (1967)Įd Sullivan didn’t much like the Rolling Stones. Here are 10 classic Ed Sullivan Show performances.ġ0. Even if you’d played the hippest venues, you didn’t really “make it” until you’d been on Sullivan. No matter how cool they thought they were, few turned him down (although Bob Dylan did walk off the set when told he could not sing the song he wanted to). He showcased R&B artists, including many of the Motown performers, and every type of rock band and solo artist. He was happy to present the biggest acts of the day and, of course, was instrumental in breaking some of the all-time greats, particularly Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Sullivan wasn’t a rock fan but he didn’t let his indifference show, as some other hosts did. With its consistently strong ratings, a booking on the variety program was a golden opportunity for performers of any stripe, whether a puppeteer, plate spinner, comic or rock ’n’ roll band, and everyone, it seemed-young and old-was in front of a TV set to watch the former newspaperman and his guests at the end of every weekend. There was a time in America when Sunday night meant The Ed Sullivan Show. Bruce Springsteen Adds Dates For 2023 Tour With E Street Band.‘Concert For George’ in Theaters For George Harrison’s 80th Birthday.Stax Releases Wattstax ’72 “Soul’d Out” Celebration.Alice Cooper’s #1 Breakthrough: Billion Dollar Babies Bob Seger’s ‘Against the Wind’: Rockin’ the Mainstream.‘The Band’s With Me’: A Former Groupie Lays It All Down.Todd Rundgren’s ‘Something/Anything?’: An Extravagant Opus.10cc, Herman’s Hermits Manager Writes Memoir, “I’m Into Something Good”. ![]() ![]()
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