Believe it or not, Dick Clark, when we all met him, was incredibly cool. R.I.P.
The photo above was taken backstage, just after Run-DMC's 1st ever performance (and in fact the 1st Hip-Hop performance ever) on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.
Below is another photo I took, of L.L. Cool J a couple of years later,
And here's a classic shot of Dick Clark, Run DMC, Jam Master Jay, Rick Rubin, Bill Adler and Russell Simmons taken that same 1st time in 1985:
* thanks to Bill Adler (Hip-Hop's O.G. publicist and archivist) for digging these out of his own files quicker than i could find them in mine!
A sad day mate, vale Mr Clark . . . forgot to chip in earlier re Mckaye, you're a lucky man, birds of feather clearly flocking together GEF, long may you cross paths.
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