I Feel Rotten Today

Johnny Rotten and Jordan at the Snax Delux Hotel in Paris

Summer's Winter 1979

Donna Summer in Winter Weather

I'm Not Stalking You, I Just...

I just often obsessively need to know what you are doing... that's why I have to wear this disguise.  
The more complicated it is, the simpler it gets!  

Party Girl | 1979

H-H-Hello!

French Boyz | 1979

Garçons

Bereft in Deathly Bloom | Bela Lugosi's Dead

How to Dress | Life Lessons with Rupert Holmes

They're Mighty Mighty | Commodores in '77

The Commodres (Lionel Richie, Thomas McClary, Milan Williams, William "Wak" King, Ronald LaPread, Walter "Clyde" Orange) met as freshmen at Tuskegee Institute in 1967, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.To choose the band's name, member William King opened a dictionary, and randomly picked a word:

Commodore Pronunciation: \ˈkä-mə-ˌdȯr\ Function: noun

Etymology: probably modification of Dutch commandeur commander, from French, from Old French comandeor, from comander to command, Date: 1695

1 a : a captain in the navy in command of a squadron b : a commissioned officer in the navy formerly ranking above captain and below rear admiral and having an insignia of one star
2 : the ranking officer commanding a body of merchant ships
3 : the chief officer of a yacht club or boating association

Many of their hit tunes were written or co-written by Walter "Clyde" Orange, the original lead singer before Richie came on board. Richie and Orange alternated as lead singers. Orange was also the lead singer on "Nightshift" and "Brick House" among others. Catch up with the Commodores here.

Sammy Davis Jr. Claus | Alka-Seltzer 1979

MERRY XMAS FROM HDV!

In His Solitude | Gordon Parks, 1979

Photographer and film maker Gordon Parks, California, 1979. was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He was the first African American to work at Life magazine, and the first to write, direct, and score a Hollywood film. He is best remembered for his photo essays and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft. Parks' son, Gordon Parks, Jr. (1934-1979), directed blaxploitation films, including Super Fly.

A 1948 photo essay on a young Harlem gang leader won Parks a staff job as a photographer and writer with Life magazine. For 20 years, Parks produced photos on subjects including fashion, sports, Broadway, poverty, racial segregation, and portraits of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, and Barbra Streisand. For an introduction to his photography, click here.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. -Gordon Parks