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Poster Boy.

PIcture of a 1970s bedroom - basically plain white decoration, but with posters of popular musicians of the tiome pinned to the walls.
’70s bedroom re-decorated with posters of music heroes.

What posters and pictures did you decorate your bedroom walls with back in the ’70s?

Being a fan of Glasgow Rangers Football Club, I had almost three walls covered in old and current photos / posters / tickets of the team.
The remaining space was taken mainly with posters of rock musicians that came free with the ‘Sounds’ music paper.

Front cover of a ‘Sounds’ paper – from December 1972. The featured a colour, centre-spread poster of a rock star / band of the day.
Two images - one of the front cover of a Sounds music newspaper from December 1972, and the other a poster of guitarist Rory Gallagher that came with a 1973 issue of the same paper.
Rory Gallagher – from a 1973 issue of ‘Sounds.’ This is one of the several Rory Gallagher posters that adorned my walls.

My young sister did the same … but surrounded herself with posters of Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, The Bay City Rollers etc, from the ‘Jackie’ magazine.

Image of two copies of 'Jackie' magazine - principally aimed at the young girls / 'teenybop' readership.
Two editions of ‘Jackie’ magazine. Aimed principally at the ‘teenybopper’ market, these images decorated the walls of young girls’ bedrooms all over the UK.

So come on … we’d love to know what covered the gloss-painted, wood-chip wallpaper in YOUR bedroom! 🙂

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17 comments

  1. Started off with posters from Sounds and NME of my favourite 70s bands, then it was tour posters from concerts I attended, then it was the tennis girl and Farrah Fawcett.
    Life imitating art??

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  2. My sister had so many Osmond and David Cassidy posters that I could barely see the paneling behind them.
    For me in the late seventies and eighties…I had posters of The Beatles (White Album inserts), Bob Dylan’s illustrated poster from his greatest hits, The Who Maximum R&B…so I was behind the times but didn’t care.

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  6. As a kid I had a very cool blacklight one (didn’t have a blacklight mind you but I think it would have glowed under one) of a cloud of neon-colored butterflies spiralling into the distance, and a B&W one of Elton John at the piano, when I was around 5-8 years old.
    Later, as I got my own place, wasn’t big on putting posters up but did have a little collage above the stereo of a number of 45 picture sleeves, plak mounted, around a similarly mounted cover of REM’ s ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ LP. I liked the way that wall art looked.

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  8. In the 70’s I too had many Sounds posters on my bedroom wall; but with some large ones of Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher and Melanie Safka bought from the legendary Kard Bar in Newcastle as well as A4 pics of Newcastle players and mono ‘Jinky’ Jimmy Smith too.

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  10. Mostly my posters were in the late sixties and were of gigs (most that I hadn’t been to). Memorable ones were UFO coming (by Haphash – my favourite poster-designers of the time), Bob Dylan’s Tambourine Man (with some of the letters obscured by the design which made it read ‘Mr Urine Man’ which always made me laugh!), and Crazy World of Arthur brown which was dayglo and I seem to remember micky mouse in there with a paintbrush. In the seventies I bought posters from Athena, mostly fantasy and sci-fi related ones rather than music-related. Oh apart from a Yes cover design. I’ve never liked the band, but the poster was great.

    But somewhere in the years in between the posters I was making collages of pics from teen and hippy magazines, and then one weekend I got fed up with it all, realised I needed more to cover the awful wallpaper in my room, and – while my parents were away for a weekend – I did a collage over all four walls, from skirting board nearly to ceiling. I lived with that for a couple of years then had to get an orange lightbulb to knock some of it out, and then one day I got bored with that too and tore it all down!

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    • Aye – we were quite fickle in our youth, weren’t we?

      Mt Urine Man! 😀 😀

      (Weirdly, as I type this and listen to Radio 6 Music, a version of Crazy World of Arthur Brown has just come on! By French artist of the day, Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Decent version. 🙂 )

      My walls were mainly covered with posters and newspaper photos of the football team I supported (Paul and I decided when we started this blog to avoid any football rivalries on here, so I won’;t say what team 😉 ) and the free posters you used to get in SOUNDS magazine / paper. Plus a few bought posters of Rory Gallagher and Alex Harvey.

      I know what you mean about Yes. The album artwork was WAY better than the music. 😀

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