Marvin The Prince Of Motown.....

When I love something I want to find out more about it, Sexual healing is probably loved by many many people and I must have around 10 different versions from electro pop to soul to reggae and acoustic.
But nothing beat's Marvin's.
An original rebel who had music pumping round his veins from an early age, when he heard the deep & hard rhythm & blues sound it was only going to end one way with his father a deeply religious man.
He ran away from home to be able to get to the dance halls and r&b concerts that were making him tick but always found himself back at home, during this period he joined several bands in and around the d.c area where he lived.
He took his troubled upbringing with him into early adult life and eventually again running away but this time joining the u.s air force which again came to a timely end faking mental illness and refusing to take orders.
I suppose when you know your special and you know something good is going to come, then living a lie trying to please others is testing.
In 1960 Marvin disbanded from the Moonglows and finally went solo, eventually being spotted in Detroit by Berry Gordy who signed him onto his Motown Record label, however it wasn't all as simple as that with a happy ending as Marvin and Motown clashed over what he wanted to record and what they wanted to bring out which at the time was the standard r&b tamla teen sound and Marvin was unbelievably pushed to background work and even became the janitor.
Eventually he released a couple of tracks and an album that only really had any regional coverage but he was still drumming for the likes of The Supremes, Mary Wells, Martha & the Vandellas, and Little Stevie Wonder, names that if you love your soul and motown will just roll off your tongue with bells on.
Marvins career however only went one way from here and the rest as they say..... is history.
His name sadly added to a long running list of artists and actors that have died long before they should have.
A great tragedy.
A day before his 45th birthday Marvin was shot by his father after a family argument, he had a troubled life but what great artist doesn't ?

Belstaff 1960's Trialmaster...... by Shaun Dangerfield

Some thing's in life get better with age (please don't include Cher or Paul Daniels).
This Belstaff trialmaster is 40 year's old and started out a vivid red, one for the purist's. Not something I would buy because I prefer to age something myself be it waxed jackets or denim it's nice to start with a blank canvas and turn something like this out eventually....

Steve Mcqueen.......by Shaun Dangerfield

Photo's of Steve Mcqueen in his Barbour International, advertised on numerous sites on the old www. as him wearing Belstaff but actually being the International.
He had a love of both label's (down to his love for motorcycles) amongst other's that look as good today as they did then and he was regularly sporting Baracuta, Barbour and Belstaff, label's with heritage, style, substance and background, no wonder he was the king of cool.......

Free & Easy Magazine Illustration's......by Shaun Dangerfield

Free & Easy magazine is Japanese reading fodder showing how the 20th century American men live and dress.
Pretty obsessed with various forms of American workwear, heritage and life they go to great length's to get these thing's right from dress sense, clothing design and lifestyle all the way to such magazine's.
These next illustration's are from various issue's of the mag covering heritage, work wear, hunting and fashion.
I think there's a few current trend's covered quite well if you look past some of the odd detailing, spot the Red Wing's, Crescent Down Works, Rocky Mountain Featherbed, Yuketen, Gloverall, Vibram soles, rolled chino's, trail vest's and deerstalker's.....