#1972 May

[littlequeenies]

August 30, 1972 - May Pang and John Lennon at the "One To One" Concert at the Madison Square Garden, NYC.

At the request of Geraldo Rivera, shortly after the release of his album "Sometime in New York CIty", John Lennon agreed to headline two charity concerts to benefit the Willowbrook Home, a facility for learning disabled children. The event was called "One To One", both concerts, played at the Madison Square Garden in NYC, were filmed and recorded, with excerpts broadcast on Walt Disney Television via Getty Images.

(Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

[70ssmut4]

[theamericanpin-up]

Fritz Willis - "Gentle Genevieve" - May 1972 Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[more-relics]

David Gilmour  Pink Floyd, Amsterdam Rock Circus - Olympisch Stadium Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 22 1972 Photos by Gijsbert Hanekroot.

[hooked-on-elvis]

Those are absolutely two of my favorite pictures of Elvis. Of course I like the details and all the info I can get on the pictures. One thing I have to say is that in that moment Elvis was in his 7th season at the International Hotel in Las Vegas (August 4th - September 4th 1972), and it was the first time he brought Linda Thompson to accompany him during the concerts (prior to that she had only accompanied Elvis during rehearsals in July). You can imagine how jealous I am of her because, well, just look at Elvis! 🫠🥲 Anyway, here's a little story about the fans with Elvis in those pictures:

Las Vegas, NV. Monday, August 28, 1972. Elvis with two Italian fans. The woman is Nicla Crippa and the man was the President of the Italian fan club, his name is Livio Monari. Livio Monari started the Italian FC in 1962. Together with Nicla Crippa, a personal friend and member of his Fan Club, they met Elvis just after the Midnight show on 26th August 1972. Photos taken that day didn't come out, so they asked to see Elvis again... to have new ones taken on the 28th August (2nd meeting) which are the ones shown above. They had just attended the Dinner & Midnight shows on the 28th Aug: when a waiter approached them - that Elvis was waiting for them.

Nicla said the following about the meeting:

1972 was a special year for me, I picked up all my saving of a year and together with Livio Monari at that time president of the E.P.F.C. of Italy, I flew to Las Vegas in August to see Elvis performing. When we arrived we were so excited that we started immediately to ask anybody of Elvis entourage if we could meet Elvis, crook Col. Parker was at a gambling table with his cigar and he said very rude "NO, you cannot met Elvis", then Joe Esposito who said No too, and when I told him "Hey Joe you are Italian like us" he answered "I'm not Italian, I was born in Chicago" very rude too... until I saw the name of Emilio Muscelli on an office door, I knocked and entered and I said with all my 18 years old enthusiasm (in fact I was not yet 18, I would have turned 18 on December 30) "Hi Emilio, we are Italians and we are here to see Elvis concerts and meet him"... well he took it good to his heart and from that point on he treated me like his daughter - he was 50 years old. We saw 14 concerts in 7 days and we met Elvis TWICE, the first time on August 26 but the pictures Joe Esposito took with Livio's camera did not come out as Livio due the emotion charged an already used film in the camera... the second time on August 28, this time we called a professional photographer to take the 2 pictures to be sure. When I saw Elvis the first time coming out of his dressing room I ran towards him and I almost jumped on him, I hugged and kissed him and he returned the hugs and kisses to me and he asked me "Hey baby how old are you" I answered "18" and he said "And you came all the way from Italy just to see me?" "Yes Elvis" and he "Oh baby..." and he hugged me again very tight. We stayed with him for 15 minutes, we gave him a trophy we brought from Italy unfortunately we have no picture of Elvis with our trophy but I saw it at Graceland Trophy Room in 1987. He wrote a dedication to me, and one to Livio, on 2 LPs we brought with us, he gave us a yellow scarf each, but especially I held his right hand in my hands for a long time, and he did not withdraw it, on the contrary he caressed my hands. He was such a gentle, sweet and tender person, he made us feel at ease and he slowed down speaking English as at that time I could not speak English well. We asked "when will you come to Europe?" he said looking at Joe "I definitely wanna go, after a project I have for January 1973 (Aloha from Hawaii) I'll ask Parker to organize a tour to Europe". The night after Emilio gave us seats in the first row, Elvis saw me from stage and he stooped down and he put a red scarf around my neck... and on August 28 we met him again same place backstage and he said "Hey you are still here, good", he had such a sense of humour. Those 2 meetings with Elvis still are the best moments of my life!

Credits: elvis-collectors.com

[debdarkpetal]

Marquee Club, December 1972.

[annabolinas]

Hey, y'all! I'm super excited to announce something very special: I'm launching a blog! It's called Adventures in Early Modernity. I'll be writing about early modern history, the Tudors, Tudor media, my journey in academia, and some of my other secondary intellectual interests (i.e. ancient history, the Hebrew Bible, classical/early modern literature, etc). I'm really looking forward to giving you a glimpse into my daily yapping and updating you on my life as an early modern history grad student. The site is up now, and you can access it here:

I already have two blog posts up! The first is an introduction to the blog and an account of my academic life (a detailed telling of my time at Oxford and Cambridge will be in a different post):

And the second post up is part 1 (the 4 worst) of a 3-part ranking of 12 on-screen depictions of Anne Boleyn. I've had strong opinions on them for some time, so I'm really excited to finally put them out there! I will be tagging the portrayals on this post, BTW, so don't look at the tags if you don't want spoilers.

I'm over the moon, frankly! Make sure to subscribe to my blog so you can receive email updates with each new post. Just enter your email at the bottom of the page.

Tagging some of my mutuals to signal boost this:

@theladyelizabeth @catherinesboleyn @glorianas @jezabelofthenorth @fideidefenswhore @period-dramallama @katharinepar

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - January 28th, 1972 - Queen Story!

Bedford, UK, College

'Early Shows'

- Only 6 people attended this concert

Pic: 1973, UK - Queen in London

📸 Photographer © Michael Putland

[littlequeenies]

Red Necklace with Medals

Here we can see John Lennon wearing a red necklace with some pendant medals at Capitol Studio, March 9, 1973 (released by John Lennon Estate).

On October 6, 1973 May Pang is wearing the same necklace on her date with John at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

We can see John wearing it again for the Jim Stacy benefit on March 24, 1974:

We don't know the details of this photo, but it's May in the 1980s wearing the same necklace...

Was it a gift from John to May? (most possible case)

Was it a gift from May to John and she got it back after their break-up or his murder? (She was working for the Lennons since 1971; we can see him actually wearing it at on the One to One concert in 1972 and she was there; she claims they saw each other after 1975 as lovers several times).

Does the necklace itself has any meaning? Is is of Asian, Chinese, Buddhist origin?

So many questions, but very interesting in any case. If any of you know the details feel free to comment/reblog the post or send us a message and we will update the info! :)

[70ssmut4]

[hereissomething]

some mussy hair lorri studies that bled into a flustered lorri comic

[legoobsessionist]

[theamericanpin-up]

Alberto Vargas - May 1972 Playboy Magazine Vargas Girl Illustration

"And here's what I've been saving for a rainy day."

[kenneth-williams-diaries]

Kenneth Williams on "Play It Again" (recorded 26 Sep 1980 for Tyne Tees TV), hosted by Tony Bilbow

In this show, some life anecdotes come along with three of Kenneth's favourite movies. No wonder at all that a great film starring Maggie Smith is one of them: "Love, Pain and the Whole Damn Thing" (Columbia Pictures, 1972). The above clip shows his pure admiration for Mags as he often called her, and her outstanding performances as an actress. 💫

[digitalfountains]

Veruschka by Richard Avedon

- US Vogue, May 1972

[lapinparka]

hey if you like twewy have you considered reading devilman