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Living watches and permanent Shrines in this part of the archive.

Portrait of Mick Jagger.
ID 54No movement
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Music

Mick Jagger

Singer, songwriter and performer whose work with the Rolling Stones helped define the sound, spectacle and endurance of rock performance.

Sun Leo

Age 83Crowd: new
Portrait of Liza Minnelli.
ID 56No movement
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Hollywood / Film / TV

Liza Minnelli

Singer and actor whose stage presence and screen work made her an emblem of modern musical performance.

Sun Pisces

Age 80Crowd: new
Portrait of David Bowie.
ID 72No movement
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Music

David Bowie

Singer, songwriter, actor and visual strategist whose repeated reinvention expanded the possibilities of rock music and performance identity.

Sun Capricorn

Age 69Permanent record
Portrait of Aretha Franklin.
ID 74No movement
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Aretha Franklin

Singer, pianist and interpreter whose voice became foundational to soul music and inseparable from Black cultural and civil-rights history.

Sun Aries

Age 76Permanent record
Portrait of Lemmy Kilmister.
ID 78No movement
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Music

Lemmy Kilmister

Motörhead founder whose bass attack, songwriting and onstage identity erased boundaries between heavy metal, punk and rock and roll.

Sun Capricorn

Age 70Permanent record
Portrait of Ronnie James Dio.
ID 80No movement
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Music

Ronnie James Dio

Singer and songwriter whose work with Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio established one of heavy metal’s defining voices and symbols.

Sun Cancer

Age 67Permanent record
Portrait of Randy Rhoads.
ID 82No movement
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Music

Randy Rhoads

Guitarist whose brief recorded career joined classical technique, melodic discipline and heavy-metal force.

Sun Sagittarius

Age 25Permanent record
Portrait of Cliff Burton.
ID 84No movement
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Music

Cliff Burton

Metallica bassist whose musical theory, aggressive tone and compositional imagination helped expand thrash metal’s vocabulary.

Sun Aquarius

Age 24Permanent record
Portrait of Chuck Schuldiner.
ID 86No movement
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Music

Chuck Schuldiner

Death founder, guitarist and songwriter whose increasingly ambitious records helped define and then expand death metal.

Sun Taurus

Age 34Permanent record
Portrait of Jeff Hanneman.
ID 88No movement
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Jeff Hanneman

Slayer guitarist and songwriter whose punk-informed speed, riff construction and bleak historical imagery helped define thrash metal.

Sun Aquarius

Age 49Permanent record
Portrait of Peter Steele.
ID 90No movement
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Music

Peter Steele

Type O Negative singer, bassist and songwriter whose baritone, self-lacerating humor and gothic scale made him an underground icon.

Sun Capricorn

Age 48Permanent record
Portrait of Trevor Strnad.
ID 92No movement
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Trevor Strnad

The Black Dahlia Murder vocalist whose encyclopedic enthusiasm and scene advocacy made him a connector across underground extreme metal.

Sun Taurus

Age 41Permanent record
Portrait of Dimebag Darrell.
ID 94No movement
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Music

Dimebag Darrell

Pantera and Damageplan guitarist whose rhythmic precision, harmonics and immediately recognizable tone influenced generations of heavy musicians.

Sun Leo

Age 38Permanent record
Portrait of Dave Brockie.
ID 96No movement
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Music

Dave Brockie

GWAR co-founder and performer whose Oderus Urungus persona fused underground music, satire, theater and handmade spectacle.

Sun Virgo

Age 50Permanent record
Paul McCartney in a 1968 promotional portrait
ID 7No movement
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Music

Paul McCartney

Still writing, still performing, and still making the Virgo-rising file complicated enough to be interesting.

Sun Gemini

Age 84Crowd: new
Dolly Parton in Honolulu in 1983
ID 8No movement
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Hollywood / Film / TV

Dolly Parton

The watch is over. The songs, generosity, wit, business instinct, and seismic cultural footprint are permanent.

Sun Capricorn

Age 80Permanent record

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