Roxy Music / Klein Blue

Not relating to trees but relating to Art!
This post was sparked by reading this book:

Remake / Remodel, by Michael Bracewell
Bracewell explores the evolving of Roxy Music and their early Art School, artist and style-icon connections.

Excerpts:

“….Charlie Ware, who lent us some money to buy the first group van. So, again, Roxy Music probably wouldn’t have happened without Charlie Ware and Susie (Cussins).” Bryan Ferry.

“ Charlie Ware - whose sister Jill would become one of Roxy Music’s first major fans, attending all their concerts in extravagantly chic outfits - was a property tycoon who had bought houses in Islington and Bath, at one point owning two houses in Bath’s Royal Crescent. Tim and Viv Head would later live in a house owned by Ware in Lonsdale Square, Islington, where Jill - who was also an early and dedicated minimalist, according to Tim Head - occupied an entirely white room.” Michael Bracewell.

Correction: yes, I had an adjoining room to Artists Viv and Tim Head but my room was not white, it was entirely Blue - a deep Ultramarine-ish Blue, which delighted Viv as she was involved in a project about the French artist Yves Klein. My blue was similar to “Klein Blue”- International Klein Blue, IKB, an intense blue developed by Klein, as pigment in a clear resin.

Circa 1970 I had first met Andy Mackay - and subsequently Bryan Ferry - at a Fancy Dress Party when he was dressed as Marcel Proust (looking similar to the late 60’s photo below, from Bracewell’s book) and I wore a Marilyn Monroe-type bright yellow wig and Mr Freedom pink velvet hot pants.

The flyer shown below was designed by Malcolm Bird and, as a “dedicated fan”, I wore both orange and blue satin versions of this on my 70’s velvet jeans.

The photo of me below was taken by Jake Sutton at a private view of Philip Sutton's paintings, prior to an early Roxy gig in South London. I am wearing an Ossie Clark dress, with Celia Birtwell print, from Quorum and feathers from Islington’s Chapel Market. I was surprized to see that Celia Birtwell, for her range for Topshop last year, had re-issued this print for a dress that appeared to be identical to the original Ossie Clark design.