Earlier, I put up that post about those belovedly grubby crusties in Nausea, appended with the photo below (incidentally, the gent on the lower right is none other than Agnostic Front’s Roger Miret, Nausea vocalist Amy Miret’s then-husband). In staring at it, I swiftly suspected that it was snapped on St. Mark’s Place on the stoop of the fabled building that was pictured on the cover of Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti (still a big draw for devoted rockheads this many eons later).
Rock historians will also be quick to point out that it’s on this same stoop wherein most of the action from the video for the Stone’s “Waiting on a Friend” takes place in 1981 (which I wrote about in greater detail on this post). Richard Corker snapped this still from same.
I think what made it all click for me, though, was another shot by Manel Armengol, the photographer whose work I recently highlighted on this post. He shot the photograph below in 1978, only three years before the Stones’ video. I’m assuming the Nausea photo up top was snapped towards the tail end of the 80’s ( I regrettably have no idea who took it or when, as I found it on Last.fm).
These days, I believe you’d be hard pressed to sit you bum down on this particular stoop for a smoke or a chat, being that there are now gates up preventing punks, beatniks, rastas and rockers from doing just that.
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