I expected to illustrate my favorite 60s songs. I am not sure that I ever really thought
about the words when the songs were current.
I spent much of my freshman year of college playing I Can’t Get No Satisfaction and Get
Off of My Cloud—probably the reason that my roommate wasn’t my roommate the
next year. Anyway, think about the lyrics. How to illustrate songs was an issue. There are also a huge number of songs that
are simply a refrain or phrase. Think
about illustrating Louie, Louie, oh no,
sayin’ we gotta go, or You better
think (think) think about what you’re trying to do to me. So choosing songs to illustrate was not as
easy as I had thought it would be. I
wanted to try to cover the broad range of music genres of the era. That includes surf rock, hard rock,
psychedelic rock, folk rock, British invasion, Motown, R & B, protest music
(love Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s
Worth), acapella, instrumentals, and bubble gum music. I felt that I had to have images from The
Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond
and Bob Dylan as well as a car themed song.
I had a lot of trouble choosing the songs. Many of the songs that I illustrated were not
favorites of mine but had a good image. I
love the Beatles, but despaired of finding a song that I could illustrate. No worries, I now have 5 Beatles songs—two are
3D.
