Millie Small dies, 72

With international sales of 5m copies in 1964, the year of its release, the hit single My Boy Lollipop, sung by Millie, who has died aged 72, “opened the door for Jamaican music to the world,” said the producer Chris Blackwell.

One Way Or Another

via Tales From the Weird

Debbie Harry circa 1976.

I love the story Andy Warhol told about her and boyfriend Chris Stein in his diary. He said they had two apartments: a large fancy one and a small shoddy one. They’d receive interviewers and photographers in the shoddy one to protect their “punk” image.

1963

Ronan O’Rahilly, Radio Caroline founder who inspired UK pop and pirate radio, dies aged 79

His death was announced by the radio station that is still broadcasting, who said: “In a pastime populated by unusual people, Ronan was more unusual than all of them combined.” He had been diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2013.

Alice Bag – ‘Turn It Up!’, 2018

Musician, Artist, Activist, 1970s/80s LA Latina Punk legend

The Bags – 1978

Alice Bag and Patricia Morrison: at Whiskey A-Go-Go. Photo by Mike Murphy

Poly Styrene: X-Ray Spex

The Roxy, London 1977, Photo by Gus Stewart

Lightning Seeds – ‘All I Want’, 1990

REMASTERED VERSION:

Store-Brand Mix Tapes – 1970s

Right before home cassette recording-tape became REALLY good.

Tones On Tail – ‘Go!’, 1984

I remember seeing this video at the punk-bar and club original EXIT, in Chicago, IL, way back in the day.

Special video edit made by Peter Michael Schmidt for Berlin Nightclub in Chicago, IL (June 23rd, 1986)