Leonard Bentley
Piccadilly Circus: 1979
This is a FISA postcard, probably printed in Barcelona, but in any event printed in the E.E.C. The view from an elevated position on the south side of Piccadilly Circus looks north towards Shaftesbury Avenue. As usual Piccadilly Circus is in a state of flux, shops are being built on the left, a Burger King and Boots the Chemist and the advertising shroud has been removed from the London Pavilion. There are two clues which show that this is the summer of 1979, the “Wings” last album, “Back to the Egg” is advertised on the right corner. I don’t think that this was meant to be their last album, but the group split up the following year during their world tour to promote the album after Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for possession of cannabis. The number 19 bus bottom left is carrying an advertisement for the Klaus Kinski film, “Nosferatu the Vampyre”, a remake of the 1922 German film, “Nosferatu”.
Piccadilly Circus: 1979
This is a FISA postcard, probably printed in Barcelona, but in any event printed in the E.E.C. The view from an elevated position on the south side of Piccadilly Circus looks north towards Shaftesbury Avenue. As usual Piccadilly Circus is in a state of flux, shops are being built on the left, a Burger King and Boots the Chemist and the advertising shroud has been removed from the London Pavilion. There are two clues which show that this is the summer of 1979, the “Wings” last album, “Back to the Egg” is advertised on the right corner. I don’t think that this was meant to be their last album, but the group split up the following year during their world tour to promote the album after Paul McCartney was arrested in Japan for possession of cannabis. The number 19 bus bottom left is carrying an advertisement for the Klaus Kinski film, “Nosferatu the Vampyre”, a remake of the 1922 German film, “Nosferatu”.