The Monkees

Karen Pollak, the girl with an LP and a record player - toiled in the pop culture trenches and walked the rock and roll landscape, not as a groupie, but as a cultural anthropologist, emerging as a keeper of these beautiful pictures (and more!).

Karen was born in Memphis Tennessee in 1950 and was originally entranced by the Beatles (her favorite is, was, and always will be Paul McCartney). This fascination with rock stars has kept Karen close to a turntable, hoisting vinyl in a motherly yet excitable pose that borders on the iconic. Note ZIggy Stardust LP in Karen's grasp. read more. . . . .


ADMIRAL BENBOW HOTEL, DECEMBER 1966








MID-SOUTH COLISEUM, DECEMBER 1966

PHOTOGRAPHS BY IRVING WEISBERGER








































From the Karen Pollak Collection. Use by permission of Guerrilla Monster Films. © Copyright 2010