A fantastic, concentrated read on that vital, obvious, and yet so-hard-to-pin-down period in Rock, where a multitude of loose threads emerged in the vacuum of the post-Beatles musicscape of 1970 as what would become referred to as the third generation generation of rock'n'roll.
Either third time's a charm, or if you look at it as something that began as something innocent, exciting and with no fixed destination, on the third turning of the cycle was when Rock was already old enough to know better, became self-conscious of its history (because there finally was one -- all sixteen years of it from 1956-1972) and therefore, of itself.
That confluence at the beginning of the decade of the last guard of the underground; the ascendancy of T-Rex and then David Bowie; with the ongoing fifties Rock'n'Roll influence compounded by A CLOCKWORK ORANGE on top of it all is such a multi-faceted cultural cluster bomb that I think in the final analysis, the most important thing about PINUPS '72 is that Stanfield not only attempted it but succeeded in putting it all together in one very densely packed yet manageable place so that others can 'follow the lines that been laid before.'
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pin-Ups-1972-Third-Generation-Rock/dp/1789145651/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1647281879&refinements=p_27%3APeter+Stanfield&s=books&sr=1-1
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