Kickin’ ass

Marcos Roberto “Va Embora Daqui” Continental Records (Brazil)

David Bowie “Without You” b/w “”Criminal World” EMI Records (1983) Keith Haring illustration. (Personal aside: I saw Keith Haring twice, once, in 1982 when he came up to Bard College and covered the art center with his graffiti of radioactive babies. Then again in 1989 (the year before he died) at the big Andy Warhol retrospective at MOMA. Okay, maybe not a classic anecdote, but there you go.)

… but I’ve read some obituaries with great pleasure” – Mark Twain (People have been celebrating the killing of Bin Laden)
The Cottonpickers “Let’s Have A Party” Barb Records

Def Jam Records picture sleeve back. Def Jam was the hip-hop house that Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons built. The first single released with a Def Jam Recordings logo was T La Rock & Jazzy Jay “It’s Yours” From the mid- 80′s through the end of the century, the label boasted a roster of rap heavyweights including LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy.