The next project we wound up working on was to be a poster for a music event. For my poster I chose an actual concert that Elvis Costello happened to be performing in Dublin, Ireland this month. Before I started I created a mood board for the piece.

As you watch the Top of the Pops youtube link below, think about The Eagles, think about Fleetwood Mac, think about Rod Stewart, think about men with long feathered hair and shirts unbuttoned to their navels and gold chains and flaired jeans and platform shoes. That was how everyone dressed. It was a uniform. Here comes this guy with short, cropped hair, who wore suits and dark rimmed glasses. In 1976 the only person you knew who dressed that way was your grandfather. His sartorial choices were shocking, but so was the depth and originality of his lyrics and the fact that he spit words out like bullets. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHmX1wbdBoA

He went on to become a huge influence on Generations of singers and songwriters since. The link below is Fiona Apple covering a song of his from the mid 80's with him and his band (sorry, his original recording is much more striking than the cover)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJ2HK2Epqs

Or if you don't like Fiona Apple, here's an interesting thing about The Beastie Boys.
watch both of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H_6pHfKRqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6fvVaVgOQ