Various Earl's Closet (The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath, 1970 to 1980) (2xLP, Light in the Attic)

Condition: Brand New Ships from: Melbourne

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• Earl was a wonderful man with a great eye for new and innovative art. And such an amusing companion, too. Mick Jagger

  Earl McGrath was the ultimate 70s jet setter, an art collector and comic bon vivant who stumbled into the record business between legendary parties in New York and LA and discovered Daryl Hall and John Oates and then Jim Carroll. Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun gave Earl his own label, Clean Records, in 1970; Mick Jagger hired him to run Rolling Stones Records in 1977.

  Friend to Joan Didion, Andy Warhol, and a galaxy of luminaries, Earl was an inveterate tastemaker. Actor Harrison Ford, who before Star Wars fame was Earls handyman and pot dealer, called him the last of a breed, one of the last great gentlemen and bohemians.

  After Earl died in 2016, journalis