The sax/keyboard player traces the New Wave rock band’s colorful history including their hits, personnel changes, and reunions
Author: Stephen K Peeples
Stephen K Peeples
Stephen K. Peeples is a Grammy-nominated multimedia writer-producer and award-winning radio/record-industry veteran raised in Miami and Los Angeles by career newspaper journalists and music lovers. Based in Santa Clarita, Calif., and retired in April 2021 after a 46-year media career, Peeples is (as of spring 2023) co-authoring a new book with artist and pop-culture legend John Van Hamersveld commemorating the 60th anniversary in 2023-2024 of Hammer’s iconic poster for “The Endless Summer,” Bruce Brown’s epic surf movie. Peeples is also conspiring with Cindy Johnson and Jeri Jenkins, founders of Home at Last, the Miami-based concierge service for rock stars recording at Criteria and Bayshore Studios in the 1970s and early ’80s, on researching and writing the dynamic duo’s memoir. And he is developing an art book-biography, “Boyd Elder, Artlaw: The Greatest Artist You’ve Never Heard Of,” about the artist who created the skull art for three classic albums by the rock group Eagles and much more (due in 2024-25). More original stories and exclusive interviews are posted on Peeples’ website at stephenkpeeples dot com and on his YouTube channel @StephenPeeplesSCV.
An honor for a legendary lensman. In his remarkable career he shot 250 album covers and countless publicity shots during the 1960s and ’70s.
He was the official photographer at the Monterey International Pop and Woodstock festivals. His images have graced more than 200 album covers