© Becky Welton 2013

29th December 1947 - 5th April 1998. 

15 years gone today. RIP Cozy Powell - you beautiful, magnificent man. 

I was going through a stack of 1970s magazines for a university project, and stumbled across a bit of fun from a 1975 Valentine’s issue of Jackie. Anything with Cozy brightens up my day!

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A Rainbow poster from the Record Mirror, 23rd February 1980. Blackmore seems to be doing a bit of a Joe Lynn Turner expression (a vision of things to come, haha); Cozy looks lovely as ever; and oh dear, Graham looks a bit rough…

Suits you, sir. 

Another token dose of Mr. Powell. 

A magazine cover clearly designed to make me happy. 

Cozy, what do you think you’re doing being ridiculously young and fresh-faced? 

Turned a t-shirt into a dress. Because every girl wants to look pretty in a Rainbow dress, that’s the dream, haha. XD

Cozy gets all the bitches. 

It’s Janine Andrews by the way, I feel bad that the magazine couldn’t be arsed to get her name, haha.