Jackie Lomax in 1963. Copyright © Astrid Kirchherr. All Rights Reserved. On September 13 Liverpool Merseybeat musician Jackie Lomax passed away. Lomax was a prominent part of the Liverpool rock and roll scene in the early 1960s. Lomax was the vocalist and bass player with the band The Undertakers, and performed at the Cavern Club […]
Last month I visited Phil Lynott’s mother, Philomena, who wrote the biography My Boy: The Philip Lynott Story. On the way to her home, we stopped at Phil’s grave to pay our respects to the legendary leader of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. At Phil Lynott’s gravesite in Ireland. Copyright © Carlotta Hester. All […]
The Old Church, Chlocháin by Deirdre Lynch In August I returned to Ireland from Holland and spent a week in one of the most beautiful places in the world, Brandon Bay, on the Dingle Peninsula. I was invited to help launch an exhibition on August 3 curated by Irish artist and art teacher Deirdre Lynch. […]
In August I visited two extraordinary museums of photography in central Amsterdam. Foam, on Keizersgracht, featured the exhibition Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937. His portraits of artists, writers, directors, actors, and other creative people are beautiful. Yesterday I was looking at the October issue of Vanity Fair, which celebrates the […]
Eric Burdon and the Animals in Amsterdam, July 28th, 2013.