The Family of Rock celebrates the iconic work of Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees, and extends his mission of recording music’s interconnections as an artform. Pete’s detailed, hand-lettered trees have been translated into books, exhibitions, TV series, and limited edition prints, with the development of a font and internet project in progress
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Pete Frame’s Story
Pete Frame started drawing his Rock Family Trees in Zigzag, Britain’s first rock magazine, which he founded in 1969.
They subsequently appeared in Sounds, NME, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone, on album sleeves and CD inserts. BBC Television broadcast two series of Rock Family Trees – plus further programmes based on his Monty Python genealogy and his Manchester United family trees.
Several volumes of his collected works have been published by Omnibus Press.