This bustling poster of London packs the late 1960s cartoon-style streets of the city with popular bands, bars, concert venues, and famous city landmarks. Produced by Sparta Graphics and printer David Schiller in 1968, the poster inhabits a vibrant and chaotic city centre with Schiller’s trademark compression of space and unifying black and white style. A large London label with a Union Jack background runs vertically down the poster. Among the crowds and packed together buildings, band names and buses of musicians such as Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, The Animals, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Donovan, Cream, The Who, and Jimi Hendrix dot the cityscape.

David Schiller was a music promoter and wildly successful publisher of rock music posters and album covers for bands in the 1960s, primarily in the San Francisco Bay area. His art drew on the Fillmore design style and the 1960s psychedelic movement, greatly influencing how musicians visually represented themselves to the public.

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