Future Legend...
BowieNetter Frank Deforche has been in touch with the sad news that Belgian artist
The news appeared in this morning's DE STANDAARD (Belgian newspaper) and Frank has kindly translated it for us...
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The Belgian artist Guy Peellaert died in Paris at the age of 74.
He was born in Brussels on April 6 1934. In the sixties he gathered fame with psychedelic comics (like PRAVDA), after which he concentrated on painting.
In 1972 he made a series of 25 paintings under the title ROCK DREAMS. He also designed album covers for artists like David Bowie (Diamond Dogs) and The Rolling Stones (It's Only Rock And Roll).
Also with his billboards for movies like Paris Texas (Wim Wenders), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) and Short Cuts (Robert Altman) he became world-famous.
Together with rock journalist Nik Cohn he made a book (ROCK DREAMS) that sold over 1 million copies.
Since the beginning of 2000 his work has been exposed world-wide with exhibitions in Brazil, Cuba and Japan.
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I'm sure you're all aware of the various paintings Guy has done of DB over the years, from the original Rock Dreams paintings via the two Diamond Dogs paintings right up to the Bowie At The Beeb cover...all of which I'll post for your viewing pleasure in the not too distant future.