I wasn’t alive when L.A. was this cool, but I wish I was. It’s hard to believe, when looking at these awesome music advertisements, that L.A. or even America, was this cool at one time. But then again, there were probably some folks who ran some underground music zines at the time, that were saying “this is bullshit”. Flash forward several decades and I bet they wish things were like they were back then…now. Photographer, Robert Landau, grew up on L.A’s Sunset Strip. These music billboards were what he saw everyday and they changed quite often, but the creativity in the designs seemed to have always remained the same. Armed with a camera at 16 years of age, he decided to take pictures of these billboards starting with the billboard for Abby Road. Those photos began to grow and grow til one day, while hosting his own gallery showing of various images, folks began raving about the billboard images in particular and voila!
The images are awesome and will immediately harken you back to a time when music was good and artist i.e. record labels, were way more creative than they are today.
If your interested in buying this “must have coffee table book” here is the LINK
