Just found out that Ray Lowry died last week.
For anyone brought up on the NME in the 70's & 80's you will know his work.
He designed the 'London Calling' sleeve for The Clash and went on tour with them to America in 1979, dubbed the 'war artist' by Joe Strummer. The resulting drawings were used in Road Manager Johnny Green's Clash book 'A Riot of Their Own'.
There is an obituary from MOJO here.
One of my favourite cartoons of his was of a blues player's funeral procession with the words ..."well apparently I didn't wake up this morning" coming from the coffin!
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