Legendary NME cartoonist Ray Lowry is to show window a retrospective exhibition of his career this month (September 2008).
The Lancashire-born creative person contributed to the magazine during the '70s and '80s, and was topper known for the hilariously-angry comic strip 'Only Rock'n'Roll'.
Lowry also contributed to magazines including Punch, Mayfair and Private Eye, as well as creating the legendary sleeve art for The Clash's 'London Calling' album.
Now, after years out of the spotlight, Lowry is staging his first exhibition. Opening September 12 at the See Gallery, Rawenstall, Lancashire, the exhibition features work from the past 40 years, as substantially as his later work as a seminal painter of urban landscapes � following on from his namesake LS Lowry (no relation).
Critic Simon Frith aforementioned of Lowry: "His fixation is rock'n'roll authenticity, which he seldom finds, and his search for it means a search through the speech of rock, through the words and attitudes that are secondhand to sell and make sense of it."
Of his inspiration as a child, Lowry himself said: "Most of my friends and I showed little esthetic or academic promise merely cared fanatically for the most arcane areas of the holy place rock n'roll thunder which had crashed down upon us out of nowhere."
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