19TH CENTURY BRITISH SCHOOL FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM KING-NOEL, 1ST EARL OF LOVELACE Indistinctly signed, oil on canvas, unframed (Dimensions: 218cm x 134cm (86in x 52.75in))(218cm x 134cm (86in x 52.75in))Footnote: Provenance: The estate of the late 5th Earl of Lovelace Note: William, 1st Earl of Lovelace was a significant figure in the family history. He entered the diplomatic service and became secretary to Lord Nugent, Lord Commissioner of the Ionian islands. At the age of twenty-eight, on the death of his father, and now Lord King, William returned to Ockham where two years later he married Augusta Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, the celebrated poet. His wife Ada was a significant figure in her own right. She had been a child prodigy able to tackle geometry and mathematics, play the violin and guitar and fluent in several languages by the age of ten. Sadly, the marriage did not last and William embarked on the architectural works in polychrome bricks for which he is best known. It was William who added the foothold in Torridon to the family's estates. He was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey from 1840 until his death in 1893.Condition report: Original unlined condition. Significant rubbing/fading throughout. Flaking to bottom lefthand corner from probable water damage. Small tear to extreme top right edge. Country House condition. Sold not subject to return.
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Original vintage music advertising poster for a show presented by Bill Graham at the Fillmore West Auditorium in San Francisco in April 1996, featuring Pete Townshend, former leader of the rock band The Who. Artwork by Randy Tuten, photography by Whit Clifton. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter best known as the guitarist, backing and secondary lead vocalist, principal songwriter, co-founder and leader of the rock band The Who. His career with the Who spans over 50 years, during which time the band grew to be one of the most important and influential rock bands of the 20th century. Pete Townshend is the main songwriter for the Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band's 11 studio albums, including concept albums and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus popular rock radio staples such as Who's Next, and dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations such as Odds & Sods (1974). He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs. Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar, and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums and as a guest contributor to an array of other artists' recordings. He is self-taught on all of the instruments he plays and has never had any formal training. He was ranked No. 3 in Dave Marsh's list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists, No. 10 in Gibson.com's list of the top 50 guitarists, and No. 10 again in Rolling Stone's updated 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. In 1983, Townshend received the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement; in 1990, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who; in 2001, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Who; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors. He and Roger Daltrey received The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016.Year of printing: 1996, country of printing: USA, designer: Randy Tuten, dimensions (cm): 48.5x33. Good condition, cracks and creases, staining in bottom margin.
Original vintage music advertising poster for the release of the second album by Frank Zappa's rock band Mothers of Invention entitled "Absolutely Free" with Verve Records in 1967 - Shame... You didn't trust your mothers - The Mothers of Invention go 'Absolutely Free' on Verve Records. This terrific in-store promo poster features a great shot of Zappa pointing the neck of his 12-string Hagstrom guitar at the camera, while the rest of the band piles up on the floor behind him. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.Year of printing: 1967, country of printing: USA, designer: Unknown, dimensions (cm): 64x45. Very good condition, faint creases and staining in upper half.
Original vintage cruise poster featuring a white cruise liner on the horizon splashing through the sea with a palm tree, flowers and two canary birds sitting on a guitar in the foreground. Die Kanarischen Inseln / The Canary Islands - Marseilles, Tangiers, Madeira, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas, Casablanca, Marseilles. Good condition, light creases, minor bumps and tears on margins, small loss on bottom right corner.Year of printing: 1950s, country of printing: France, designer: Alain Gauthier, dimensions (cm): 98x60.5.
Original vintage music advertising poster for a concert by Country Joe & the Fish at the Avalon Ballroom in 1968 with supporting acts including The Charlatans and Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks. The event was organised by Family Dog Productions. Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965. The band was among the influential groups in the San Francisco music scene during the mid- to late 1960s. Much of the band's music was written by founding members Country Joe McDonald and Barry "The Fish" Melton, with lyrics pointedly addressing issues of importance to the counterculture, such as anti-war protests, free love, and recreational drug use. Through a combination of psychedelia and electronic music, the band's sound was marked by innovative guitar melodies and distorted organ-driven instrumentals which were significant to the development of acid rock. The band self-produced two EPs that drew attention on the underground circuit before signing to Vanguard Records in 1966. Their debut album, Electric Music for the Mind and Body, followed in 1967. It contained their only nationally charting single, "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine", and their most experimental arrangements. Their second album, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die, was released in late 1967; its title track, with its dark humor and satire, became their signature tune and is among the era's most recognizable protest songs. Further success followed, including McDonald's appearance at Woodstock, but the group's lineup underwent changes until its disbandment in 1970. Members of the band continue in the music industry as solo recording artists and sporadically reconvene. The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The space operated from 1966 to 1969, at the height of the counterculture movement. The Avalon Ballroom was a music venue in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The space operated from 1966 to 1969, at the height of the counterculture movement. Fantastic design by Paul Zavorskas. The Avalon Ballroom was founded by Robert E. Cohen, impresario Chet Helms and his music production company, Family Dog Productions, which had offices on Van Ness. Bands were frequently booked to perform at the Avalon on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Extraordinary posters advertising each event were produced by psychedelic artists, including Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley and Victor Moscoso. In the 1960s, at the Avalon, two bands typically performed two sets during the evening beginning at about nine o'clock. Many local bands, such as Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Steve Miller Band, served as backup bands, as did the early Moby Grape and headliners such as The Doors, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Butterfield Blues Band and Big Brother and the Holding Company, which Helms organized around singer and performer Janis Joplin in spring 1966. The Grateful Dead played at the Avalon twenty-nine times from 1966 through 1969, and recorded two live albums, entitled Vintage Dead and Historic Dead, in the autumn of 1966. 2 tracks of their famous "Live/Dead" album were also recorded there in early 1969, The Eleven and Turn On Your Love Light. On January 29, 1967, it hosted the Mantra-Rock Dance musical event, organized by the local Hare Krishna temple, which featured Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, along with Allen Ginsberg, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape and Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin.Year of printing: 1968, country of printing: USA, designer: Alton Kelley & Stanley Mouse, dimensions (cm): 51x36. Very good condition, minor folds in corners.
Original vintage music advertising poster for a show presented by Bill Graham at the Fillmore West Auditorium in San Francisco in September 1968, featuring Chuck Berry, The Steve Miller Band and Kensington Market. Artwork by Lee Conklin. Chuck Berry - Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive. Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 - October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash. On July 4, 1939 he was sent from Germany to France to escape the Nazis. At age 10 he settled in a foster home in the Bronx, New York. Graham graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and from City College with a business degree. In the early 1960s, he moved to San Francisco, and, in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms and Family Dog, and their network of contacts, to organize a benefit concert, then promoted several free concerts. This eventually turned into a profitable full-time career and he assembled a talented staff. Graham had a profound influence around the world, sponsoring the musical renaissance of the '60s from the epicenter, San Francisco. Chet Helms and then Bill Graham made famous the Fillmore and Winterland Arena; these turned out to be a proving grounds for rock bands and acts of the San Francisco Bay area including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, who were first managed, and in some cases developed, by Chet Helms. The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals. The group is best known for a string of (mainly) mid- to late-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier psychedelic rock albums. Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band. Shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band’s contract with Capitol Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to the Steve Miller Band. In February 1968, the band recorded its debut album, Children of the Future. It went on to produce the albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love, Fly Like An Eagle, Book Of Dreams, and more. The band's Greatest Hits 1974–78, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. In 2016, Steve Miller was inducted as a solo artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Year of printing: 1968, country of printing: USA, designer: Lee Conklin, dimensions (cm): 53.5x35.5. Excellent condition.
UNKNOWN ARTIST - EDEN RECORDS LP (EDEN LP 36). Fascinating undocumented LP released by Eden Records (Mourning Phase, Warrior, 7 Folk, Intensity) - this album from an unknown band which could be described as a underground monster Acid Folk rarity! What is known about the band is that they were led by Graham Ash with songwriting credits also to Al Wilson, Kiren Grimm and Robert Sanderson. The record was 'produced by Roundabout Music', possibly the name of the band. The record is in VG+ condition showing some light surface markings which are never heavier - the album playing through very well (the sound quality is actually very good considering the nature of the recording!). Machine stamped matrix: EDEN LP 36 A & EDEN LP 36 B. Released in a 'generic' white sleeve which is pasted with 2 members of the band on the front with 6 members on the reverse. With an insert detailing the track listing and credits. A real 'rural basement outsider'' feeling to the album, the opening track 'Things To Remember' is led by a solo male voice with electric guitar, both complementing each other rather beautifully. Throughout, there are some really georgeous, accomplished solos with haunting introspection in places including a few instrumental tracks. To cap it all, there is a very much Psyhedelic ending with the track 'Roundabout Buggerabout' with the band experimenting with a more electronic sound (phasing in an out).
BEE GEES - UNRELEASED ACETATE LP - 'THE BEE GEES FIRST' SESSION - 9 TRACK SAMPLER (1967 IBC STUDIOS). Incredible to uncover 1967 demo acetate LP from the Bee Gees. Recorded at I.B.C. studios in March 1967, many of the songs would go on to feature on the band's third studio album 'The Bee Gees First'. All songs on the record are effectively demos and are all different to the final 'studio' recordings. The tracks were recorded in the very early sessions (likely dating from 7th to 13th March) - the additional orchestration was only added later on. The track listing is as follows: (Side 1) - Red Chair Fade Away, Turn Of The Century, House Of Lords, Mr Waller's Wailing Wall, I Close My Eyes, One Minute Woman and All Around My Clock, (Side 2) I've Got To Learn and Cucumber Castle. The acetate LP is graded as G. There are many surface marks to both sides with some light scratches too. The whole recording can be listened to and enjoyed with surface noise typically of a moderate level with occasionally a couple of small skips. A very special listen throughout, you are instantly taken back at the stripped back nature of the tracks - for us most notable on the track 'House Of Lords'; this track only released much later and remastered, this original version is without strings and instead at a higher tempo with semi-acoustic guitar backing, stylistically a complete 'Mod dancer!' A true piece of history. Consigned by Philip Dennys who has had an illustrious career in writing and arranging; a letter of provenance can be provided. More information on these 1967 sessions can be found here: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/bee gees/67.html.
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