Image / Exene Cervenka

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Title: Exene Cervenka
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Date Created and/or Issued: 1982
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
One of the first bands to emerge from the Hollywood punk scene in the late 1970s, X is critically acclaimed for their hybrid of punk, folk, rockabilly and blues. Their albums appear on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time, and the City of Los Angeles awarded them with an Official Certificate of Recognition for their contributions to the City's musical and cultural heritage.
Photograph caption dated June 18, 1982 reads, "Will success spoil X?"
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00124286
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Musical Groups--X
CARL0005343410
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34097
Subject: Cervenka, Exene
X (Musical group)
Singers--United States
Punk rock music--United States
Rock groups--United States
Women--California--Los Angeles
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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