Jon Seed wrote to tell me that he has used my photo of Tom Rapp as the image for a YouTube video of him singing ‘Old Honest Abe’, at the Tin Angel, in Philadelphia, in 1998. The photograph was taken at the Terrastock festival, in the same year I think. Jon explains that it is ‘particularly relevant now that Newt Gingrich is gaining so much political momentum.’ Here is the video:
It’s an honour to have my photo of Tom on that recording, both musically and politically. Tom Rapp is the legendary folk singer of Pearls Before Swine, the influential ESP-disc late-1960s group.
Ken Livingstone keeps newts in a tank, you know, hopefully along with that other swivel-eyed reptile, Boris Johnson, soon…
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