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      ‘Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm’ Review: Rockers Ripping It Up

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      A documentary explores the Welsh farm-turned-studio, Rockfield, where Black Sabbath, the Stone Roses and others made music.Rockers endeavoring to “get their heads together in the country” has been one of the great clichés of popular music since the late-1960s. As “Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm,” an agreeable new documentary directed by Hannah Berryman, amply testifies, “the country” was just as likely a place for rockers to lose their heads.As recounted by the brothers Kingsley Ward and Charles Ward, their parents’ large pig and dairy farm in Wales was a dodgy inheritance. “No money in farming,” one of them shrugs. Avid rock fans since the mid-50s, they made music together on reel-to-reel tape and drove north to try to sell it; their first stop was a record pressing plant. (They got a “label” address off the back of an LP.)Various farm buildings had attractive acoustic qualities, so the Wards started cleaning them up and sealing them off, building a residential studio. Black Sabbath rehearsed there; the space-rockers Hawkwind recorded there. After leaving Led Zeppelin, the singer Robert Plant found at Rockfield a place to experiment, an environment where he was “free to fail.”The tales become more picaresque as New Wave and Britpop bands begin checking in and behaving like New Wave and Britpop bands. Simple Minds sing backup vocals for an intermittently sober Iggy Pop, and so on. The studio’s biggest upturn comes when the Stone Roses stay for over a year. And then there’s Oasis. Its former lead singer, Liam Gallagher, recalls the fights with his bandleader brother, Noel (of course he does), and rushing to the village pub.This stuff is best appreciated by rock mavens. Many of the other bands telling their stories (including the Boo Radleys and the Charlatans) didn’t have much of an impact in the States, so Anglophilia helps, too.Rockfield: The Studio on the FarmNot rated. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. Watch through virtual cinemas. More

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      Original Artwork of Led Zeppelin's First Album Set for Auction

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      The original artwork, by George Hardie, which featured on the front page of the legendary band’s self-titled album is among the memorabilia to be sold under the hammer.
      May 10, 2020
      AceShowbiz – The original artwork for the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1969 self-titled debut album will be auctioned off next month, June 2020.
      The cover was designed by George Hardie and based on photographer Sam Shere’s famous 1937 photograph of the Hindenburg disaster, depicting a Zeppelin erupting into flames.
      The piece is estimated to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000 and senior specialist of the Books and Manuscripts department at auction house Christie’s, Peter Klarnet, told Rolling Stone, “In terms of rarity, this is a unique object – I don’t think you can get rarer than that.”
      Hardie designed the piece while he was a graduate student at the Royal College of Art in London after his friend, the photographer Stephen Goldblatt, had recommended him to the rockers.
      The band reportedly paid Hardie just $75 for his work and he went on to design album covers for bands including Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, and Wings.
      “The historical significance of this album cover cannot be understated,” Klarnet added. “It marked a major turning point in the history of pop music, heralded by the debut of Led Zeppelin. It was louder, bolder than what had come before and would come to define the shape of hard rock for generations.”
      “This simple rendering of the Hindenburg exploding over Lakehurst stands as a monument to that important historical moment. And the image has endured in a way that most other album covers have not – it very much has taken on a life of its own.”
      The auction takes place from June 2 to 18, 2020.

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