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45 fab images for you to colour, plus articles on every single act, by Kev F Sutherland, of Beano and Marvel comics fame. Paperback edition.
Who is in this definitive volume of pop stars to colour, from the decade of psychedelia? There's...
Adam Faith, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Shirley Bassey, Cliff Richard, The Supremes, Herman's Hermits, Lulu, Freddie & The Dreamers, Cilla Black, Roy Orbison, Smokey Robinson, Millie Small, The Four Seasons, James Brown, Phil Spector, Marvin Gaye, The Who, The Kinks, The Hollies, Dusty Springfield, Sandy Shaw, Aretha Franklin, Tom Jones, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Dionne Warwick, The Monkees, The Rutles, The Mamas & The Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Sonny & Cher, Pink Floyd, Nina Simone, Jimi Hendrix, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Ike & Tina Turner, Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa, Elvis Presley, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Captain Beefheart, and Joni Mitchell.
Go on, who'd we miss?
The 1960s. They say if you can remember it, you weren't there.
Which, if the documentaries that have filled up BBC 4 and Sky Arts for the last couple of decades are anything to go by, suggests nobody was there in the sixties, cos they all seem to have a hell of a lot to say about it now. If there's ever been a decade whose music has been examined, observed, pored-over, analysed, celebrated, and played endlessly, it's the 1960s.
It's a decade that appeared to start in black and white, then transform into full colour halfway through, almost like it was a Wizard Of Oz tribute decade. With the colour on film and, later, TV, came the explosion of everybody's home decorating set that was psychedelia. Some took the drugs that gave it its name (those would be the folks who went on to be unable to remember the decade) while plenty more consumed the colours on their album covers and their clothes.
And one country punched well above its weight in the Swinging Sixties: Britain. Our painters and sculptors were in the forefront of Pop Art and Op Art; our designers like Mary Quant and Terence Conran revolutionized fashion; our film makers unleashed James Bond, Hammer Horror and Carry On movies on the world. But it was in one area that the Brits undeniably ruled supreme - the world of popular music.
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About the author
Kev F is a writer and artist for Beano, Marvel, Doctor Who & many more. Now self-publishing graphic novels.
Kev F Sutherland has been a comic book writer and artist for many years, working for everyone from Beano to Marvel comics, via Doctor Who Magazine. Viz magazine, Red Dwarf Smegazine, Zig & Zag's Zogazine and a hundred titles you may never have heard of. His debut graphic novel, Findlay Macbeth, came out in 2020, followed by two more Shakespeare adaptations with a twist, Prince Of Denmark Street and The Midsummer Night's Dream Team. His collection Comic Tales From The Bible was published in 2022.
You can find him on social media at @kevfcomicartist and at kevfcomicartist.com
