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Oct 24, 2013 · Music. 11 Amazing Rock Billboards From the Sunset Strip. Learn the history of these classic signs that popped up in Los Angeles during the Sixties and Seventies. By Rolling Stone. October 24,...
- Joe Cocker, “Cocker Is coming,” 1969
- The Who, Tommy, 1972
- The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969
- Neil Young, Zuma, 1975
- The Rolling Stones, Love You Live, 1977
- Bruce Springsteen, “Prove It All Night,” 1978
- Cher, Take Me Home, 1979
- Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979
“This is just such an eye-catching bit of graphic art, with his head sticking out. This period of billboards started around ’67 with The Doors. Jac Holzman, the founder of Elektra Records, is credited with being the first one to put a rock-n-roll group on the Sunset Strip. It lasted until the launch of MTV in the early ’80s, when all the money that...
“This is one of my favorites. It’s based on The Who’s rock opera Tommy, about a blind, deaf, and mute pinball wizard. These billboards weren’t very commercial, considering it was a commercial medium. In many cases, there was no text telling you what it was even selling. Maybe only a few people understood that those eyeballs represented chrome pinba...
“This album cover, designed in England by John Kosh, was sent over to Capitol Records, and they didn’t really get The Beatles at that time. They thought it was like the hula hoop—a fad that was going to pass, so they gave the job to Roland Young, the youngest designer there. He went to the site where the billboard was and figured out that the sky w...
“Zuma was one of my favorite records at the time. Not that many people saw these billboards and it was hard to prove it had anything to do with selling records, but the managers and a lot of the company people had their offices on the Strip, so it meant a lot to the stars. If Neil Young was coming in to see his manager, he could see his billboard o...
“This is an Andy Warhol design based on an album cover that he did for The Rolling Stones. Warhol obviously crossed into the commercial world a lot, but there were other cases where fine artists had designed album covers. I think there is a Talking Heads cover designed by Robert Rauschenberg [Speaking in Tongues, 1983]. In that period, there was a ...
“It’s 1978, and Bruce Springsteen is in town doing a series of concerts. He drove over to the Strip to see his billboard, and he hated it. At his concert the next day, he talked to the people in the crowd and said, ‘Hey, go up on the Strip and see the billboard. My nose is too big,’ or something. So they went and climbed up on the building that it ...
“By the end of the ’70s everybody in the music business, not just the classic rockers, wanted a billboard. When the rock billboards started going up, they replaced the lounge lizard generation of Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. But then it came back to this entertainment theme, where people put on funny costumes just to get your attention. It lost some...
“When this billboard first went up, no one knew what it was. It was all bricks. They left it up there like that for a while, and then, little by little, they started peeling off some of the bricks, and there was a design underneath. It was kind of an interactive billboard. The design was based on the album sleeve. It was what they call a gatefold a...
Sign O' The Times: Rock 'N' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip (TV Mini Series) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Through the lens of his camera, photographer Robert Landau chronicled the ephemeral pop-culture masterpieces—classic rock and roll billboards—that loomed over L.A.’s most iconic boulevard for only weeks before being dismantled, white-washed, and painted over with newer images.
In the late 1960s, the Sunset Strip was adorned with hand-painted billboards promoting popular rock 'n' roll bands, capturing a unique era in music promotion. Photographer Robert Landau...
May 6, 2024 · Through the lens of his camera, photographer Robert Landau chronicled the ephemeral pop-culture masterpieces—classic rock and roll billboards—that loomed over L.A.’s most iconic boulevard for only weeks before being dismantled, white-washed, and painted over with newer images.
In Rock ’n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, author/photographer Robert Landau showcases these signs of the time, a time when rock was the most important music ever recorded, when youth, politics, and art merged to turn counterculture into mainstream culture.
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