LIFE Magazine photographer John Olson photographed the most famous rock stars of the ’70s in the childhood homes with their mums and dads.
Mr Olson traveled around the world — from Scotland and the suburbs of London, to the hard streets of Brooklyn, New York, and the San Francisco Bay area.
The photos of reveal humble, less glamorous beginnings that some of these outrageous icons tired to move away from. (via The Daily Mail)
From top to bottom: Elton John with his mother Shelia and stepfather Fred Fairebrother in their London apartment; Frank Zappa with parents Francis and Rosemarie in their fabulous perple pad; David Crosby, of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, sitting with his father Floyd in father’s house in California; Grace Slick with her mother Virginia Wing; and Eric Clapton with his grandmother Rose Clapp in the house he bought her in Surrey.
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