Michael Jackson has handwritten and signed the lyrics to his hit signature song "Bad" in black sharpie pen. Written on three pages of 9" x 11" white stationery, Jackson has signed the first page at the top, next to the "BAD" title. This song, from the 1987 album of the same name, was one of the five singles off the album to reach number one. Originally intended as a duet with Prince, Prince declined saying it would be a hit anyway. The song was written at a time in Jackson's career when the tabloids started to print stories of his bizarre behavior such as sleeping in a hyperbaric oxygen tank and his attempt to purchase the bones of the Elephant man. Even though such stories were starting to be published, Jackson was at the height of his career, being dubbed the "King of Pop" by Elizabeth Taylor when she presented him with the "Artist of the Decade" award at the White House. In excellent condition. Estimate $6,000-$8,000.
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This set of seven 10" x 8" black and white original photographs of the Beach Boys and the Eagles were taken by famed photographer Neal Preston and bear his stamp on the verso. Excellent condition. Estimate $500-$600.
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1966 Pop Art meets concert posters. LA's legendary Sunset Strip night spot, The Trip, was the location for the southern California debut of Andy Warhol's "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" featuring the Velvet Underground with Nico and more in a series of multimedia events featuring a blending/synthesis of light, music, film, sound, and dancing acted out by the VU and Nico and the dancers (including Gerard Malanga, Mary Woronov and Eddie Sedgwick in NYC) and played films by Warhol. These performances, originally scheduled for May 3rd through the 18th, were allegedly shut down by the authorities after only 3 days for "disturbing the peace!" The cream of Hollywood society was in attendance (Ryan O'Neal, John Phillips, even a young Jim Morrison), although most were apparently not prepared for Gerard Malanga's S&M whip routine, or Lou Reed's nihilistic drug songs...Cher said of the Velvets: "they won't replace anything, except perhaps suicide..." Andy must have been thrilled! Heavy stock cardboard poster features the April 25th 1966 Newsweek cover, featuring Roy Lichtenstein's famous "Pop!" painting, and in a tip of the hat to Warhol, the Campbell's Soup kids. This extraordinarily rare and sought after poster is the embodiment of Pop Art meets concert posters. Frank Zappa & the Mothers opened for the VU and as an interesting side note, a young UCLA film student named Jim Morrison attended one of these shows. Only a handful are known to have survived. This 14" x 22" cardboard rarity exhibits age toning to left-hand border and upper edges. Estimate $8,000-$12,000.
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The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Santana, and Canned Heat were among the acts that played Woodstock two weeks prior to this festival stop in New Orleans. A few months later the Dead would be "busted down on Bourbon Street;" the event that would find its way into the biographical "Truckin'." This rarely seen 17.5" x 23" event poster exhibits wear to the corners, some staining and surface wear, with corner staple holes. Estimate $500-$1,000.
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This rarely seen 14-page 1944 program includes numerous photos, biography, center spread of pictures from the previous year's Carnegie Hall performance, proposed song listings for that evening's performance and pictures from her appearance in the movie "New Orleans." Three images of Billie, including the front cover, have been circled in red ink. 8.5" x 10.75", VG. Estimate $300 - $500.
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Bowie's Ziggy persona is colorfully captured on this rarely seen poster promoting the US release of "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars." The 20" x 35" poster exhibits two surface creases, wear and tear to lower corners and four small pieces of tape on the interior surface. Estimate $300-$500.
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This original silk-screened Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo poster by artist Tom Benton is autographed in gold paint pen by Hunter S. Thompson. This poster was used by Thompson and Benton to spraypaint/screen the sword on later versions of this poster (the sword was cut out of this one so that the paint could spray through). This poster was based on the famous "Hunter S. Thompson for Sheriff" poster that the two designed for Thompson's 1970 run for Sheriff in Aspen, CO. It was almost certainly Hunter who drew in the gold lines in the left and bottom margin. We have seen other posters that Hunter doodled on when autographing them, and are certain that this is Hunter's style, not Benton's. Estimate $1,500-$2,000.
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