POSTER CHILD

Poster Child The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd is a stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock n roll s most influential artists written by Byrd and author Robert von Goeben Foreword by Marc Myers Award Winning Author of Rock Concert An Oral History Beginning in the late 1960s graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock n roll graphics Byrd created poster concert and album art for Jimi Hendrix the Who Lou Reed Janis Joplin Jefferson Airplane Ravi Shankar Traffic Van Halen the Grateful Dead the 1969 Woodstock Festival and KISS among others In fact the 1968 poster that Byrd created for the Jimi Hendrix Experience was voted 8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by Billboard Beyond this he created the iconic imagery for many Broadway shows including Follies Godspell Jesus Christ Superstar Little Shop of Horrors and more Byrd is considered one of the foremost graphic artists of 20th century pop culture and yet he has never achieved widespread name recognition Poster Child shares the artwork of Byrd including never before seen sketches of famous posters for celebrated musicians with incredible accompanying anecdotes about his encounters with rock