Showing posts with label 70`s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 70`s. Show all posts

29 May 2022

The final 5 K....


 Eugene, Hayward Field, May 29, 1975

Frank Shorter and Steve Prefontaine making an attempt to break the American record in the distance. Both runners had a huge influence on the emerging running boom of the 1970`s (and that never faded away !). They were at the time at the forefront of fighting to change the amateur rules that prevented top-class athletes from making a decent living out of their sports. Prefontaine embodied the true joy of running and, on the track, he was a completely fearless athlete. A few hours later, his life came to an end in a car accident. This was his last sunset.... 

30 Apr 2017

1970´s, King`s Road....


..number 430 to be exactly

16 Sept 2016

Time to walk....


time to run
time to aim your arrows    
at the sun....

25 Jul 2016

24 Jun 2016

29 May 2016

The final race....

 (click to enlarge)
behind is nothing....ahead, a few hours 

Eugene, Hayward Field, May 29, 1975. A remarkable career that came to a sudden end. Steve Prefontaine personified in many ways the "joy of running"....and had a huge influence on the running boom that emerged in the 1970's.

8 May 2016

As time goes by....

Holland Park, London 1976, photo: Mick Rock

..there are some advantages to choosing the right style from the beginning.

23 Apr 2016

Very few....

Janis Joplin, New York City, 1969

..could sing from the heart like she did.

20 Apr 2016

Across Europe 1976....


..with the Alfa Romeo, 2000 GTV Bertone

13 Mar 2016

True rebels die young....

Teotihuacan, 1969

..and a few live like they preach.

12 Mar 2016

Courageous runners....


Eugene, July 9, 1972. US Olympic Track & Field Trials

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift". 
Steve Prefontaine 1951-1975

28 Feb 2016

The day Sweden lost its innocence....


..with youngest son at Fårö

Olof Palme, cowardly assassinated in Stockholm, on this date....30 years ago.

27 Feb 2016

The 1970`s....


Agnetha Fältskog, 1972


Anyone who disagrees if i say that she carried everything with grace....

18 Feb 2016

Say it with grace....

..Grace Slick about her early retirement

"You can do jazz, classical, blues, opera, country until you´re 150, but rap and rock and roll are really a way for young people to get that anger out. It´s silly to perform a song that has no relevance to the present or expresses feelings you no longer have"