Rock Opera is seriously obsessed with the images presented on television and how celebrity culture impacts and is absorbed by the culture at large.

The picture of the pipe at the bottom is an illustration from the book that Steve Brown is discussing in his column. It’s an interesting choice because it highlights the marijuana culture that permeates this publication as a whole. “Drug references is random spot art! Right on!”

(Heavy Metal issue #45, December 1980 – Page 74 Rock Opera by Kierkegaard)