Icons: images in rock ’n roll culture

David Bowie as Aladdin Sane. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. Patti Smith at CBGBs, The Rolling Stones on tour, Debbie Harry, Kurt Cobain, The Clash arriving at JFK Airport in 1981...

These are the pieces we pin to the walls of our teenage years, the images we look to to understand the music we love, and the reference points which help us to look the way the music feels. When we picture rock and roll in our minds, we see photographs of artists and rebels and daredevils and punks – a revolution in culture frozen in time.