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1980 · réf. 62781 — Austin TX: Armadillo World Headquarters Zebra Disc Discover & Flipside Records 1980. Atlas folio. 8.9 x 21.9 in. broadside poster printed in yellow olive gray & black minor age toning spotting to lower fore-edge slight creasing 1 tiny paper repair at fore-edge still a VG bright copy Juke’s name printed in lower corner of illustration. First edition of this original rock poster created by Guy Juke for the famed Armadillo concert by Dire Straits just three weeks after their groundbreaking third studio album “Making Movies.” With frontman and guitarist Mark Knopfler the band achieved superstardom by the early 1980’s. The Armadillo club had opened in Austin TX just after the closing of the Vulcan Gas Company and the legendary rock music venue offered an electic range of performers including Bruce Springsteen Ravi Shankar AC/DC Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. If not for the Armadillo Austin may never have called itslef the “Life Music Capital of the World” and would close New Year’s Eve Dec. 31 1980 just 8 weeks after this concert. Armadillo World Headquarters was actually revived in Feb. 2024 as a pop-up venue for the SIMS Foundation. Juke b. 1951 is an Austin TX graphic artist and musician well known for his memorable posters created for the Armadillo World Headquarters and known as one of the “Armadillo Art Squad” creating sharp-edged figures on geometric settings. See Dave Dalton Thomas Going Home With the Armadillo: Can a 1970s Venue for HIppies and Rednecks Survive in the New Austin Texas Monthly March 6 2025. Armadillo World Headquarters, Zebra, Disc, Discover & Flipside Records, unknown