Royal Mail honours anarchist artist
Freedom Press | 11.01.2010 13:07 | Culture | Other Press
Paul Cannell, the artist responsible for the artwork of Primal Scream’s classic 1990’s album Screamadelica has had the image commemorated on a new set of Royal Mail stamps.
The Post Office has chosen ten album covers as part of a ‘design classics’ series acknowledging the artistic merit of record sleeves that are as culturally significant as the music they were designed to represent.
Cannell, a one-time milkman with no formal artistic training described as an anarchist by Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillepsie, began designing record
sleeves in the early 1990’s for such groups as Flowered Up and Manic Street Preachers, working for both Heavenly records and Creation records who gave him studio space in their offices. His unconventional approach to art, using anything from household undercoat paint to car body filler along with a love of punk and its aesthetics, abstract art and cubism made him the ideal artist to encapsulate the post-rave hedonistic culture of the early 90’s music scene, mixing child-like menace with exuberant colour.
Tragically Cannell took his own life in July 2005, surviving a wife and child, and never received the full recognition from the art establishment for his body of work. As he revealed in an interview “I was at the Royal Academy doing a photo session for a project. Managed to nick an apple pie and cup of coffee from the canteen. I’m quite proud of that, actually…”
Other stamps feature the cover of the Clash’s London Calling album and New Order’s Power Corruption and Lies.
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Cannell, a one-time milkman with no formal artistic training described as an anarchist by Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillepsie, began designing record
sleeves in the early 1990’s for such groups as Flowered Up and Manic Street Preachers, working for both Heavenly records and Creation records who gave him studio space in their offices. His unconventional approach to art, using anything from household undercoat paint to car body filler along with a love of punk and its aesthetics, abstract art and cubism made him the ideal artist to encapsulate the post-rave hedonistic culture of the early 90’s music scene, mixing child-like menace with exuberant colour.
Tragically Cannell took his own life in July 2005, surviving a wife and child, and never received the full recognition from the art establishment for his body of work. As he revealed in an interview “I was at the Royal Academy doing a photo session for a project. Managed to nick an apple pie and cup of coffee from the canteen. I’m quite proud of that, actually…”
Other stamps feature the cover of the Clash’s London Calling album and New Order’s Power Corruption and Lies.
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/2010/01/11/royal-mail-honours-anarchist-artist/#more-708
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London Calling - The Stamp
11.01.2010 14:38
Classic Album Covers Stamp Set
(Strummer/Jones)
What are we gonna do now?
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
'Cause they're working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers
The judge said five to ten-but I say double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it?
The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal
You grow up and you calm down
You're working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown
You're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now
In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
But ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!
And I've given away no secrets
Who's barmy now?
Wow!
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Topsy turvey
11.01.2010 15:48
''What are we gonna do now?.. etc''
Adam Pearlman with very strong links to the ADL/JDL . It most certainly is a topsy turvey world we're livin' in.
Adam Pearlman ADL