David Thorpe Posters

A large and striking silkscreen concert poster for The Stone Roses' seminal gig at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, England, on Saturday 12th August 1989. Following the release of their eponymous debut album in May 1989, Manchester musicians Ian Brown...

Widely considered one of, if not the greatest martial arts films of all time. Enter the Dragon is a 1973 martial arts film produced by and starring Bruce Lee. The film, which co-star...

Known as the "Farewell to England" tour, the Rolling Stones 1971 UK Tour took place across 10 days in March 1971 across 9 cities and saw the Stones at their absolute peak. They released the iconic "Sticky Fingers" a few weeks after the tour. After being commissioned to create the 1970 European Tour poster, and in turn, creating the iconic Stones tongue and lip logo, British designer John Pasche was recruited to create this iconic poster. Featuring an old car driving down the countryside roads...

With fabulous artwork from French painter Herve Morvan, this poster promoting Air France routes to Europe was created in 1956. Air France was created in 1933 after a merger of multip...

Fantastic original Rolling Stones 1972 American Tour poster featuring a wonderful design by John Pasche. Having designed the Rolling Stones 1970 Eu...

"Some Girls" was released by The Rolling Stones in 1978 and was a major critical and commercial success, also marking Ronnie Wood's debut album as a full time member of the band. Fea...

The Rolling Stones 1970 European Tour ran from late summer to early autumn 1970 and saw the band playing in support of their latest album, 1969's "...

A rare original tour poster for The Jam's 1978 UK Apocalypse Tour, screenprinted in black on vibrant neon orange. Following the release of their third studio album 'All Mod Cons' on ...

A rare boxing-style screenprint concert poster for a performance by Public Enemy with Fishbone, Living Colour and Stetsasonic at the Santa Monica Civic Au...

Vintage Kid Creole and the Coconuts 1985 concert poster: This rare Kid Creole and the Coconuts announcement/poster was published on the occasion of his December 26th, 1985 show at Carnegie Hall. This was the band's debut performance at Carnegie Hall, and it was written about in the New York Times: "THE POP LIFE; CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT FOR KID CREOLE" (December 25th, 1985). Medium: Offset printed concert poster. Dimensions: 11 x 17 inches. Good overall vintage condition. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. American latin pop band founded by August Darnell aka Thomas Browder in 1980 in New York City. Fronted by Kid Creole (2) backed by the trio of The Coconuts and also featuring Coati Mundi, they enjoyed most of their success in the eighties. Their debut album was critically well-received but not successful commercially. Their second album was a concept album matched with a New York Public Theater stage production; it received positive reviews, with Darnell recognized as a clever lyricist and astute composer, arranger and producer. Their international breakthrough came with their third album, 1982's Tropical Gangsters, which hit #3 in the UK and spun off three Top 10 hits with Stool Pigeon, Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy and I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby ; Dear Addy also made the Top 40. In the US the album was retitled Wise Guy and reached #145, and I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby flirted with the R&B charts. Dixit Darnell: "In the Savannah Band I’d modelled my style on 1930s/40s jazz singer and showman Cab Calloway, and I created Kid Creole as an extreme version of that, a sort of lounge lizard...

The Ramones 1989: Rare vintage original vintage The Ramones poster produced on the occasion of: The Ramones at Music Circus Ruhr, Oberhausen, Germany, 1...

Original Vintage Poster-Nicolitch-Levallier-Magic Show Tour, c.1940 Poster promoting the magician Levallier, a recognized magician with more than twenty years of practice. Add...