We don't know why we're such big fans of great bands of the past, but sometimes the actions of the fans really expose a truly transcendent level of adoration. For example, once an ordinary roll of toilet paper was sold on eBay, which, judging by the description, was thrown out by one of the members of The Beatles from the toilet in the EMI studio. The funny thing is that, despite the initial price of 40K pounds, the lot was actually sold to someone.
Moreover, one fan of The Stone Roses one day put up for sale on eBay for 500 pounds a bottle containing... some air from their favorite musicians' concert. And, again, tellingly, they sold it successfully. Great startup idea if you have some tickets to your favorite band's upcoming concert...
By the way, it is quite possible that the love for good music is based on ordinary biological processes. At least some researchers believe that when you listen to your favorite music, the brain releases dopamine, the “pleasure hormone.” "We cannot conclude that taking dopamine will increase your musical pleasure. What we can say is much more interesting: listening to the music you love will make your brain release more dopamine, a crucial neurotransmitter for humans' emotional and cognitive functioning", states Laura Ferreri, an associate professor in cognitive psychology at Lyon University, in her interview to PsyPost.
However, even classic rock bands gradually turned into real factories. For example, in 1977, Emerson, Lake & Palmer toured with a group of 63 people. Moreover, among the staff were not only technical specialists, but also a karate instructor for the drummer Carl Palmer, several doctors, massage therapists and, of course, a whole group of photographers.
"I just suspect that many of the photos featured here are actually staged - even though they look like they were taken by accident," says Ivan Strakhov, a Ukrainian photographer who was asked by Bored Panda for comment. "It's really the ultimate skill and professionalism of a photographer - to make a picture look completely amateur, so I'm ready to take my hat off to the authors of many of these photos."
“Moreover, given that some of these pictures were taken many decades ago, when retouchers did not have such a powerful assistant as a computer, the task becomes much more complicated. But the result looks even more impressive - after all, after half a century, or even more, we feel incredible nostalgia looking at these pictures," says Ivan Strakhov.
Be that as it may, our love for the legends of music will not be lessened by the fact that some of the photographs that we are now looking at were actually shot from a huge number of takes, and underwent a certain retouching. After all, big is seen from a distance, and if now, looking through some of these photos, you are nostalgically humming some old immortal hit to yourself, then this post has definitely reached its goal!
