![]() Not all of her clients were rockers: British actor/singer Anthony Newley was one mainstream artist who agreed to be cast. She quit making casts from 1971-80, then returned to it in the punk era, casting Dead Kenendys’ Jello Biafra, the Mekons’ Jon Langford, the Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley and many others. Her collection included Jimi Hendrix, Wayne Kramer of MC5, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys as well as female breasts from the likes of Laetitia Sadier of. (Not as well known is that she later cast some women’s breasts as well.) Among her most famous subjects were Jimi Hendrix and Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience (two of the first to pose for her, in 1968), Eric Burdon of the Animals, Dennis Thompson and Wayne Kramer of the MC5, Eddie Brigati of the Rascals, Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin’ Spoonful, guitarist Harvey Mandel, and drummer Aynsley Dunbar. She was 74.Īlbritton was best known, as the Wiki description points out, for making plaster molds of rock stars’ penises. You can be sure that nowhere else among the millions of entries in Wikipedia is there another biography whose subject is depicted as an “American artist and self-described ‘recovering groupie’ who gained fame for creating plaster casts of famous persons’ erect penises.” Cynthia Albritton, better known in rock lore as Cynthia Plaster Caster, died at a care facility in Chicago on April 21, 2022, of cerebrovascular disease. ![]() Bob Marley & the Wailers’ ‘Catch a Fire’ Revisited: Review.New Journey Book Takes Definitive Look At the Band’s History. ![]() When Dickey Betts Made a Surprise Appearance in 2018.‘Billy Jack’: One Tin Soldier Rides Away.Savoy Brown’s Kim Simmonds and 5 Decades of the Blues.The Making of the ‘Sweet Baby James’ Album Cover.A New Edition of Pink Floyd’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’: Review.Radio Hits in December 1969: Leaving a Decade Behind.A depiction of the three musicians Noel Redding (cast 1968 Bass Player, the Jimi Hendrix Experience), Clint Mansell (cast 1989 Lead Singer of Pop Will Eat Itself Film Scorer of 'Requiem for a. Badfinger ‘Straight Up’: A Power Pop Masterpiece Cast over the course of nearly three decades, Cynthia Plaster Caster’s Curved Collection is a unique example of the legendary artist’s scandalous casts.Lou Adler Interview: The Making of Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ + More.Michael McDonald Sets Memoir, ‘What a Fool Believes,’ Written With Paul Reiser. ![]()
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