![]() ![]() I remember the day, it was like typical London, slightly gray day. Janette Beckman: Look how funny Sid looks. These seditious tastes shine thru in a wide-ranging conversation covering an essential period in music history, a volatile and exciting intersection of art, fashion and culture.ĭante Ross: Look how young John Lydon is. Janette and Dante share a passion for music and a penchant for the unexpected beauty that can rise from bona fide urban/youth rebellion. I asked my friend Dante Ross - a renowned music producer, talent executive and cultural connoisseur - to sit with Janette at her Manhattan studio and capture the story behind some of her most iconic photographs. (She later did the same with the nascent New York hip-hop scene, but that’s a story for another day). Thankfully Janette was there with her Hasselblad, preserving these unrehearsed, uncensored moments for posterity. Against a backdrop of economic hardship - essentially, in spite of it - several inspired musical movements blossomed in England. The first chapter begins in her home country in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when the nihilistic chaos of punk crossed paths with the soulful, West Indian flavors of two-tone and ska. Janette Beckman - an accomplished British photographer with a particular focus on music and youth culture - was a witness to more than one seminal musical evolution during her career. Sometime later - when the sound explodes beyond its cocoon, reaching other ears in far-away places- you realize you were there when it all started. You feel the burst of energy, you hear the flow of creativity, you see the people, the style and the scene taking shape. If you’re lucky enough to be the right age, in the right proximity and in the proper mindset when a genre of music first makes its mark, you may not initially recognize the magic unfolding. The purest, most authentic moment a music fan can experience is to be present at the inception of a sound. ![]()
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