I ran from the light ,I hid in the dark

Crows surround a crow wrongdoer. Elementary Science Readers: First Book. 1927.

Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.

Iggy Pop on stage with the Stooges bringing their raw power to New York during their 1970 gig at Ungano’s, a hip club on the Upper West Side, as captured by Leee Black Childers.

“…Yeah, Danny Fields had imported the Stooges from Detroit to play in a place called Ungano’s in the Upper West Side of New York. And that’s the first time anyone in New York ever saw or heard them. Mostly nobody ever heard of them. 

Danny was working for Elektra. In those days, during the hippie days, record companies employed what was called the Company Freak. His job meant that since he was in the right age range he was the one who could understand young pot smoking-free-sex-loving-living people of what certain music they liked because the old record company executives had no idea at all. So they would send the Company Freak off to listen to bands and advise them if the bands were good or not. 

That’s how a lot of bands got signed. They sent him off to see the MC5 who were getting a lot of attention and their support band was the Stooges. Before he left, Danny had signed both the MC5 and the Stooges without the record company hearing so much as a note. Those were the days…”

Leee Black Childers