After the goldrush: rock posters fetching silly sums
Silkscreen poster advertising Bob Dylan's film Renaldo & Clara. Signed 'To Paul, Best Wishes, Bob Dylan 9/17/86'. $5,000Photograph: RecordmeccaPoster advertising D.O.A, Coffin Break and a little-known band called Nirvana at the Olympia Underground in Washington, 1988Photograph: Dig GalleryBruce Springsteen poster from 1974, after the release of his second album, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. $400Photograph: Recordmecca
Poster for the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Festival Hall in 1967Photograph: RecordmeccaPoster advertising the Beatles' Yesterday and Today album with the famous 'butcher' cover. Capitol Records planned to issue the record in June 1966, but got such negative feedback from retailers that they withdrew the cover at the last minutePhotograph: RecordmeccaPoster advertising the Who, Cannonball Adderly and the Vagrants at Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, February 22 1968 Photograph: RecordmeccaA rare Joy Division poster signed by music journalist Jon Savage. £1,600Photograph: RecordmeccaEmek poster advertising a Decemberists gig in Amsterdam, 2007. £300Photograph: Emek / richardgoodallgallery.comEmek's 2006 Nick Cave poster, which took three months to complete. Sold for £500Photograph: Emek / richardgoodallgallery.com
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