Musicians - Blog Posts

Betty Davis photographed by Fin Costello, 1976.

Eartha Kitt at the Talk of the Town nightclub in London, 1962.

Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club orchestra on stage at the Trocadero Theatre in Elephant & Castle, London, 1934.

Nina Simone by Dezo Hoffman, London 1950

Bruce Springsteen in 1972, getting his first glimpse of his first album ‘Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ’ by Art Maillet.

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k.d.: In high school, I took an aptitude test that said I was 98 percent guaranteed to be a mechanic.

Anne: I’d love to pull into your garage and see you wiping your hands on a greasy rag.

k.d.: I’d say, “How can I help you, little lady?“ 

Anne: And all the cute girls would come to your garage and the other mechanics wouldn’t get it.

k.d. and her good friend Anne Meredith in Rolling Stone, August 1993