rock legends pose with their parents (in the 1970s)

[orleans]

some interesting pictures here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098596/Photos-1970s-rock-stars-parents-reveal-humble-roots-childhood-homes.html

[KMOD]

1. LMAO, too funny

Elton John and family - normal
Clapton - normal
Zappa - lol, he looks pissed that his parents painted their walls purple, or something. Maybe he's just pissed. Love him, btw
Jacksons - normal, except for obviously the Dad. Maybe I'm biased with what I know. But I love the kids.
David Crosby - normal, but awkward picture, lol
Richie Havens - normal
Donovan - normal and boring
Joe Cocker - Cool and normal
Grace Slick - OK, I love her, but c'mon. The first picture is so tense and all, and then the second photo, her mom is all like, oh, hahahaha, even though her grandchild is being hung upside down. lol I dunno, I'm not a gramma yet.

[cyberswede]

2. Elton's mom's boots are the BOMB! nt

[Frank Cannon]

8. Zappa always looks pissed-off about something.

Elton John's family look like pretty nice people.

[Enthusiast]

9. Ever see the same picture with Frank holding the family cat?

I found it but I don't know how to post it. He isn't pissed off.

[orleans]

21. i googled & found it.

it's a weird photo--with & without the cat. his parents look photoshopped.

btw--there were a lot of pics of frank with cats.

the only way i know how to post pictures is to save them to the computer, go to photobucket & upload the photo, click on photo & it takes you to a page with the single photo you want; over on the right, under "share links," click on the "direct" -- it will tell you if it copied. then just come back here & right click & paste

like this... (cat related)

[Enthusiast]

24. The internet is powered by cats.

It's true!

Thanks, orleans.

[surrealAmerican]

3. These are sort of sweet in a way.

I love that picture of Frank Zappa and his parents.

I wonder why the British parents look so much quirkier than the Americans. Maybe it's just that I have a memory of that era in the U.S., but not elsewhere.

[rurallib]

4. somehow I never think of rock stars having had parents

how totally mundane.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Those explain a lot.

Particularly Crosby and Zappa.

[orleans]

6. that's kinda what i thought too. n/t

[Enthusiast]

10. But I love Crosby and Zappa.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Me, too.

But those shots sort of offer a little window into their respective psyches, or imply a relevant backstory- At least, they seem to.

[Enthusiast]

12. Because their parents appear to be such conservative establishment types?

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Yeah, you can imagine the screaming fights between Crosby and his dad, for one.

With Zappa it's more like they inhabited this bizarro reality that he's goofing on even as he's escaping it.

[Enthusiast]

15. I always felt the same way about it.

Nice perception.

[Enrique]

7. Richie Havens parents have a xylophone and a piano

in their Brooklyn apartment . And plastic sheets on the couch, and photos of Abraham, Martin and John on the piano. And the father looks the same age as the son.

[mackerel]

13. I love Crosby shirt! Richie Havens Father says none of the other children moved

out, only Richie.

[oberliner]

16. Should Grace Slick really be holding her baby that way?

Seems a tad dangerous.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. my thought as well. 1970s ignorance about baby care?

[oberliner]

20. Or perhaps there are substances impairing her judgement

I think she was pretty deep into her addict period at that time.

[ND-Dem]

22. yeah, the 70s were the dark ages. we knew nothing about babies, nothing. unlike the

deep knowledge people have today....

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. lol. 70s people let babies ride in their laps and steer the car

People smoked by the crib and fed them bacon.it was a different time

[ND-Dem]

28. right, i was always having the baby drive and he did a damn fine job.

[Beaverhausen]

17. Most of the parents look like grandparents

Since this was 1971, I don't think the musicians were really that old- maybe 30 at the most? Wonder why their parents are so old?

Anyway, I love Zappa's parents living room!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. people.looked older back then...my theory

[ND-Dem]

23. some of them were old. crosby's father, for example, was born in 1899, which would make him

71 in 1970.

David Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead (a descendent of the prominent Van Cortlandt family) and Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award–winning cinematographer and descendent of the Van Rensselaer family.

van rensselaers and van courtlandts = new York old families/royalty

[hibbing]

26. I want that Zappa couch

Interesting color scheme in the living room.

Peace

[orleans]

27. back in that era we had vivid lavender walls in our living room

and if my mom had seen a couch with those colors she would have bought it in a heartbeat. as it was, we had two couches--one was a bright green (the other i can't remember), and we had a bright orange chair in the living room too. and a bright yellow desk chair with a desk. also an organ! hey, it was the SEVENTIES!!! (ah, youth...sigh)

[hifiguy]

29. That Zappa livingroom

looks like something one would see in a David Lynch film. I mean that in a good way. I think.

[tblue]

30. They had parents?