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Peter Stanfield
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Author of “Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood & Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys”; “Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock n Roll”, etc.


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Brighton’s Lambrini Girls do an Iggy, Dreamland, Margate’s last night
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
a recent find among my mum's photos. The scene is the common room, Maria Grey teacher training college, Twickenham, c.1954. Two years later the college's students would be raving on Eel Pie Island just over the bridge
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
In solidarity #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
#thewho play Vancouver March 1968
September 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
To mark my survey in Ugly Things #69 of the 1973 debates in the British press about the relative merits of THEM and Van Morrison, I've put on my blog the full text of Lester Bangs’ sleeve notes www.peterstanfield.com/blog #lesterbangs #them #vanmorrison
August 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Farewell . . .
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
T-Shirts Optional – Led Zeppelin, Orlando, Fla (1971)
#LedZeppelin
July 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It was a typical Saturday night at the Ludlow Garage. . .
Standing in the rear was a tall girl wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket and blue levis and a look of utter boredom. #flamingroovies
July 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
MC5 . . . working the press – London 1970.

Couple of hitherto unknown, to me at least, interviews with the band. Visit my blog for the lowdown, link in profile
#MC5
July 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New blog post on Music Now 1970 and the paper’s coverage of T. Rex on the cusp

Link in my profile
#marcbolan #trex
July 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Got the Summertime Blues? Let Pete Townshend disabuse you . . .
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Moving Like a Crazy Caterpillar Fed on Pep Pills . . . The Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy.
New blog post, link in profile
#TheYardbirds #yardbirds
May 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
'The Most Blueswailing . . .' earned a top review in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. The Financial Times has yet to knock at my door . . . Thank you @wesleystace.bsky.social Full review is posted on my blog, link in my profile @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
#TheYardbirds #yardbirds
May 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Peter Stanfield
Check out Boris Karloff in this rare 1949 radio adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story. For commentary, see the April 20 blog entry on krutnik.com.

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Boris Karloff, "The Night Reveals", Mystery Playhouse (ABC Radio)
YouTube video by Krutnik videos
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April 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hard on Shindigs! heels is an equally wonderful 4star review from Daryl Easley for Record Collector #theyardbirds #yardbirds @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #daryleaslea
April 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Fantastic 4star review from Grahame Bent for @shindig_magazine #theyardbirds #yardbirds @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
April 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Tony Blackburn Sings the Yardbirds. . . New blog post; link in profile . . .
April 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Who were never above appropriating a good tune when need demanded. Moon and Entwistle’s ‘In the City’, b-side of ‘I’m a Boy’, is one of dubious provenance that’s nevertheless worth a whistle test.

New blog post: www.peterstanfield.com/blog
#thewho @thewhothismonth.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Seventeen magazine (March 1965) covers the ‘Young London Look’ and, as the ace faces of the City, the Who play their part. Much more of this in my blog: www.peterstanfield.com/blog
#thewho @thewhothismonth.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Derek Berwin's fabulous 1965 photo of the Who that was used to illustrate Fabulous magazine's January 1966 Pop Art themed issue. More of the contents can be seen on my blog: www.peterstanfield.com/blog
#thewho #popart
March 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just in . . . 8/10 review in Classic Rock by Claudia Elliott . . . 'a thoroughly birdmerizing yardmerizing treat'

#theyardbirds #yardbirds
March 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A bit of marginalia: John Gabree’s World of Rock and the Yardbirds Little Games album

www.peterstanfield.com/blog
March 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Stuz Bearcat Drive, standing on the corner is the Sweet Jane retirement home for evil mothers
March 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Peter Stanfield
February 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM