11 Pop Culture Memorials from Around the World
Forever frozen in time and sometimes covered in bird poop, here are 11 of our favorite statues, busts and artistic expressions of musicians who have impacted pop culture. We went to 11 because we just wanted that extra…umph. If you have one you’d like to add, please add a comment.
Frank Zappa in Vilnius, Lithuania
Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas
Jim Morrison in Paris, France
Johnny Ramone at Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Elvis on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee
John Lennon casually sitting in a park in Havana, Cuba
Bob Marley in the tiny Serbian hamlet of Banatski Sokolac
Phil Lynott located off Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland
Jimmy Hendrix in Seattle, Washington
The Beatles live in the Reeperbahn, Hamburg
Jerry Garcia in Portland, Oregon
Photo_Credits (in-order-of-appearance): flickr sally and jamie, flickr MoralesDirect, flickr kk_wpg, flickr aj bend, flickr albertdiner, flickr teladair, web.bobmarley.com, flickr DouglasBray, flickr dherrera 96, modestine4.blogspot.com, photobucket johnnylb.
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While there are many Bob Marley statues in Jamaica and throughout the world, we choose this statue because the Croats and Serbs gathered together to erect a statue as a symbol of peace, tolerance, and healing after a few war torn years within the region. Again, with The Beatles, there are so many pieces to choose from, but this is the one that we like the best.
Otis Redding Memorial
Madison, WI (His plane crashed in Lake Monona 12/10/67)
http://twitpic.com/321vj
The Buddy Holly Center (and statue) in Lubbock, Texas. The center is fantastic.
http://www.buddyhollycenter.org/
I say you went with 11 just like in the move Spinal Tap, there amps went to 11 because other bands went to only 10!
Alan – You are correct… Spinal Tap was for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills.
Inside Central Park at Strawberry Fields, there is a John Lennon Memorial. It’s apparently an area that Lennon went to often, and is just inside the park from where his apartment was.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30973676@N02/3225721431/in/set-72157614682060033/
cheers,
I would add the statue of Queen’s lead singer Freddy Mercury in Montreux, Switzerland.
Cheers from Rome!
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I love Bob Marley too!
Great. Some of those I didn’t know about.
Just thought you should know that Jim Morrison’s grave no longer looks like that. The family changed it to a simple tombstone. I believe the Hard Rock café has the bust from it.
It hasn’t been that way (as illustrated in the photograph) for over 10 years. On a visit to France I was disapointed by his grave… but not by the cemetery. That is worth the visit.. Pere LeChaise (sp?).
But I did enjoy your post anyway, some of those I wasn’t even aware of!
Thank you.
The Bronze Fonz is in Milwaukee WI