Te poster is Number 8 on Billboard magazine's list of "The 25 Best Rock Posters of All Time." Byrd achieved the poster's disorienting effect by painting a film positive from behind in acrylic and using a hex grid to create the hair as a mass of colorful psychelelic photons.
Also by David Edward Byrd
Left to right:
Godspell , 1971, poster art, Using his celebrated "Nouveau Art Nouveau" style, Byrd originated the poster
art for the hit off-Broadway musical.
Courtesy of David Edward Byrd