#RIP Charlie Watts
My favourite portrait of the great drummer, by Deborah Feingold, 1992
A wonderful portrait of the Stones by Terry Disney, from January 17, 1964
Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts & Bill Wyman
So much style! #RIP Charlie Watts
Here is Charlie Watts in 1963, in a great photograph by Fiona Adams. Great gravitas - not a shot you'd expect from an early Stones concert. #RIP
#RIP Charlie Watts
📷 Peter Webb
resin print, May 1971 @NPGLondon
A splash of colour from Terry O'Neill in this 1963 shot of The Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London. The photos from this shoot helped Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones & Charlie Watts get their first recording contract from Decca.
Robert Altman
Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts during the recording of Let It Bleed. Taylor believed he was being called in to be a session musician at his first studio session with the Rolling Stones. He was a member of the group from 1969-74.
Elektra Studios, October 1969
#RIP Charlie Watts
Love this portrait of The Rolling Stones by Norman Parkinson, for Queen, April 1964 @NPGLondon
The Rolling Stones by @GeredMankowitz, 1965 @NPGLondon
Charlie Watts was the coolest of the Stones, but I love his smile here #RIP
Lean into it...
The Rolling Stones by Peter Webb, 1970s
Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor @NPGLondon
Charlie Watts was the coolest & the most graceful; completely centered & at his ease here. #RIP
Charlie Watts by Eamonn McCabe, 1992
"I’ve never fulfilled the stereotype of the rockstar. Back in the 70s, Bill Wyman and I decided to grow beards and the effort left us exhausted." #RIP
Charlie Watts by Stanley Bielecki, June 26, 1964
He hated playing at music festivals, because the quality of the music suffered outdoors. He took his music seriously, but not himself. #RIP
Charlie Watts by Michael Putland
New York, 1978
"He has always collected old things – vintage cars, jazz records, first editions of 20th century literature. In short, he’s always been an ‘eminence grise’ at heart – and that’s why we’ve always loved him."
- @AHHPrendergast
I love when Charlie Watts plays jazz, & I listen for the swing in his rock drumming. #RIP
"The challenge with rock and roll is the regularity of it. My thing is to make it a dance sound; it should swing and bounce."
This is truly fantastic:
The two-year-old Charlie Watts with his mother Lillian and father Charles in Piccadilly Circus in 1943
📷 Linda Roots
Even then he dressed so perfectly. #RIP
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Theodor Adorno takes a selfie.
Today we're celebrating his birthday 🎂
"While Adorno is a critic of the Enlightenment, he is ultimately a critic of its failure. There has been too little enlightenment, not too much."
- Nasrullah Mambrol
I didn't know that Theodor Adorno, such an important critic of avant garde music, was a composer himself. Here are his Two Pieces for String Quartet, op.2, 1924/25.
My favourite portrait of Theodor Adorno, from 1958. I wish I knew who took it.
In a letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno said this about high & popular culture: "Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however they do not add up."
Remembering D. H. Lawrence on his birthday 🎂
📷 Edward Weston, 1924 @NPGLondon
"Lawrence, in the English language, was the great genius of our time (I mean the age, or climatic phase, following Conrad's)."
- F. R. Leavis
D.H. Lawrence is Mark Rampion in Aldous Huxley's Point Counterpoint, while the character Philip Quarles is Huxley's self-portrait. The two listen to Beethoven together in the novel.
This photo is possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1928 @NPGLondon
Photo of Lawrence in Taos NM, from Mabel Dodge's scrapbook
"Lawrence’s formal accomplishment, less obvious at a glance than Joyce’s or Woolf’s, is to narrate beneath the stream of consciousness, & chart subterranean currents of feeling as they shift & swell."
- Benjamin Kunkel
Listening to Jimmy Rowles, The Peacocks, from 1977
With Stan Getz, Elvin Jones & Buster Williams
Love the cover illustration by Seymour Chwast open.spotify.com/album/1xNk28wK…
Jimmy Rowles's 1976 album Jazz is a Fleeting Moment features a self-caricature
"Understatement was his strength, & his best solos often sound preplanned, spare, with each note perfectly chosen for its color. Rowles had absorbed the music of Ellington & Strayhorn."
- Peter Watrous
Bill Evans plays Jimmy Rowles's great song Peacocks, with Eddie Gómez on bass & Eliot Zigmund on drums. From his album You Must Believe in Spring, recorded in 1977, but not released until after Evans's death in 1980.
Remembering Robert Wise on his birthday 🎂
📷 Erich Lessing, 1964
"His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene."
- Martin Scorsese
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins on the left of the West Side Story camera; to the right is cinematographer Daniel Fapp, 1961
Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise shared the Director credit for West Side Story. This 1960 Gjon Mili shot for Life Magazine shows the two on set.
I love this shot!
Remembering Elsa Schiaparelli on her birthday 🎂
📷 André Durst, 1936
"I like to amuse myself. If I didn't, I would die."
Impossible Interview: Stalin versus Elsa Schiaparelli
Vogue, June 1935
Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias
- What are you doing up here, dressmaker?
- I am getting a bird's-eye view of your women's fashions, Man of Steel.
- Can't you leave our women alone?
Remembering H. D. - Hilda Doolittle - on her birthday 🎂
📷 Man Ray, c. 1925
"She was beautiful, reckless, one of the poetesses whose poetry was feared and wondered over."
- D. H. Lawrence
H. D. by Man Ray, 1924
"To read H. D., early and late work, is like reading early and late Blake."
- Alicia Ostriker
Why is Sigmund Freud in this thread celebrating the birthday of the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-born poet H. D.? It's because Hilda Doolittle took this photo of Freud in his study at Berggasse 19, Vienna, with his chow Jofi, c. 1937