++ Left: New Barney Bubbles Muleskinners T; right: Julian Balme’s tribute for The Commuters, 1980 ++

42 years separate the designs in this great photo, which pairs the new official Barney Bubbles Muleskinners T-shirt on the left with the one-off tribute on the right designed in 1980 by Julian Balme for the UK post-punk R&B group The Commuters.

Both belong to Peter Stanfield, the group’s harmonica player who is these days a prominent pop culture academic and author, notably of the recently published Pin-Ups 1972.

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Tags: Jules Vegas, Julian Balme, Peter Stanfield, Pin-Ups 1972, The Commuters

++ Full-page ad, The Griffon, December 1964. Courtesy Michele Whitby/Eel Pie Musuem ++

Michele Whitby, who runs the Eel Pie Museum, which is dedicated to the pop cultural history of the tiny island to the west of London, has sent this advert for a 1964 performance by local r&b group The Muleskinners, and wonders whether it is a Barney Bubbles design.

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Tags: Bob Dylan, British Poster Award, Eel Pie Museum, Michele Whitby, Paul Weller, Rolling Stones, Small Faces, The Cherokees, The Faces, The Griffon