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Legendary artist Martin Sharp died December 5th at age 71. Towards the end of the ’60s, he shaped the imagery of rock.
It all started with a beer at London’s Speakeasy Club in 1967 where Martin befriended two musicians. He told the musicians that he had written a poem that might make a good song. One of the musicians said that he needed lyrics for some new music he wrote. So, Martin scratched his poem along with his address on a cocktail napkin. A few weeks later, the same musician stopped by and gave him a 45 record. That musician, a guitarist in a band called Cream, was Eric Clapton.
On the A side was a song called “Strange Brew” and on the B side was “Tales of Brave Ulysses” – which was Martin’s poem set to music. Martin and Eric would soon move into together (along with their girlfriends and other band members). By the end of the year, Cream released “Disraeli Gears” featuring Martin’s artwork on the cover.
The album artwork (pictured) is one of the most recognizable in rock history. The psychedelic artwork features a lush sprawl of color that blended photos of band members in a brightly colored garden of feathers and flower petals. The album reached Number 4 on the U.S. music charts (No. 5 in Britian).
Martin went on to make some of the most memorable posters of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. In 1970, he headed back to Australia where he became one of his country’s most prominent artists. He started to focus on an unusual performer who played the ukulele and sang in a falsetto voice – his name was Tiny Tim.
Tiny Tim, born Herbert Khaury died in 1996.
One of Martin’s most memorale works was a painting of Marilyn Monroe blooming in a van Gogh vase. He would serve time for breaking obscenity laws in his native Australia for a photograph showing men pretending to urinate on a fountain made by prominent sculptor Tom Bass. The conviction was later overturned.
R.I.P.
Martin Sharp 1942 – 2013.
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