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  Album art for "The Modern Lovers" 
 
 My first Album cover design. Jonathan Richman's little known 1971 debut record
 "The Modern Lovers". Created for Berserkely Records when I lived in Berkeley California. I got the job 
  through a friend of mine who was a roadie for Earthquake. That is when I met Phil Kaufmann, who 
  had worked for the Rolling Stones, handling just two clients at that time: Jonathan Richman and Gram 
  Parsons (after Parsons's death it was Kaufmann, aided by one of the Byrds roadies, who honored a pact 
  by "kidnapping" his body and cremating it in the desert). The original cover had blue lines on the heart
  and a white circle and white letters. The above cover is a re-issue change.



  Man From China 45 by VivaBeat.

My first published song "Man From China" written by myself,  
Alec Murphy and  Vivabeat. Vivabeat's only album, Party   in the War Zone  is 
out of print. They did hit  the dance charts with "Man From China", a record with a 
melodic, whistled hook   that inspired Peter  Gabriel to write "Games Without Frontiers". 
Gabriel had helped the band get signed   to his UK label, Charisma Records, 
and the single was also a radio hit overseas.