I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Friday, August 15, 2025

More Women of Popular Music

So in a world where billionaire Taylor Swift releasing a new album makes Headline News at the BBC [UK]

Diary of a Showgirl


and as Keith Lemon would have asked

So what’s the message?!






Marianne




Chaka

Annie Nightingale first woman DJ at the BBC (1970) - she once interviewed me for BBC at the Brighton showing of 'Stand Up To Be Discontinued' Captain Beefheart {Don Van Vliet] painting exhibition and I can only assume it was SO bad that it was never aired!


Pop stars now look like this (see Taylor above!)




Mind you . . . . . Tina Turner in Los Angeles in 1971


This shot of Cat Power always worried me as it looks like she is need of comfort . . she may well just be lying on the grass of course . . . 

Bonnie and friend Sleepy John Estes 1971 ( I wonder . . . . )

Little Simz [Simbi Ajikawo]

They rock too!
Victoria De Angelis of Måneskin


Fiona
Fiona Apple // photo- Harry Woods BankBoston Pavilion, 1999-07-21

Alexis Krauss, Sleigh Bells


Hope Sandoval in the California desert, 1993  📷 © Laura Levine


Olivia Rodrigo



Sheena post Prince



Kelsey [Walden to you]

Sade



Susannah

Lene

Patti

Paramore’s Hayley


Sade . . . again (so sue me!) Sade Adu, New York City, 1992

Dua Lipa (yes again . . . )



Björk



Siouxie


Cat Power by Lex van Rossen (2000).




LADY GAGA by Collier Schorr for T Magazine.

Emily (Barker)


Emmylou

Suzanne


Tal

Annie Lennox, 1984. Photo by Anton Corbijn.

Marsha Hunt - Bianca Rock musical Othello

Lana

Hope Sandoval | Mazzy Star (1994) © Ebet Roberts



Grace . . . 


Janis outside the Chelsea 1969

 For the boys!?

 . . .and doubtless some of the gals too!


Viola Smith!




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