Red text (styled as a signature) over a colorful (pink, purple, green, black, blue, gray, yellow, and peach) illustration of Rick Nelson wearing a printed suit jacket, collared shirt, and tie in front of a landscape of a road, mountains, and spotlights.  A small "Epic" logo appears in the bottom left corner of button.

Ricky Nelson--also known as Rick Nelson--was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. His father was big band leader Ozzie Nelson and his mother was big band vocalist Harriet Nelson. Together his parents starred in a radio sitcom, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", which Ricky joined with his brother at age eight. The sitcom began its television run in 1952 and went on for fourteen seasons. Ricky also performed in feature films as well as placing over fifty top 100 songs in Billboard. 

Rick James in a loincloth, holding a shield and a bass guitar on his leg, multicolored background with text on upper left side.

Rick James (1948-2004) was an American musician and composer.  During his lifetime he released 12 studio albums and also produced several records for Motown stars such as the Temptations and Smokey Robinson. His best known single was 1981’s Super Freak which was sampled in MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This in 1990. He also produced and wrote Eddie Murphy’s Party All The Time. Before his death, he regained popularity due to a skit on the Chappelle Show.

Circular black and white photograph of Randy Travis with a red border and capitalized white and teal text on a blue background.  

In 1993, Shoney’s restaurant, Coca-Cola and Opryland theme park sponsored a sweepstakes which awarded the winner an all-expense paid trip to Opryland and an opportunity to have dinner with country music star, Randy Travis. Other prizes included acoustic guitars autographed by Travis, denim jackets and cassettes.

Randy Travis became a successful songwriter and performer in the 1980s, with 16 number one hits on the country music charts. A high school drop-out who had several run-ins with the law in his youth, Travis was rejected by every major record label in Nashville at the beginning of his career. Travis suffered a massive stroke in 2013 which greatly affected his speech. In 2016 he amazed the audience when he performed a rendition of Amazing Grace at his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Capitalized black text above a black and white photograph of Rachel Sweet wearing a suit jacket, collared shirt, and tie, all on a white background.  

Rachel Sweet is an American singer and actress whose career began at age six. By age twelve, she was opening for Bill Cosby in Las Vegas. Throughout the 70's and 80's she released four records before stepping away from show business to earn a degree from Columbia University in French and English literature. Shortly after, she recorded songs for John Waters' ​Cry-Baby and Hairspray as well as the theme song for Clarissa Explains it All. 

Black text on a neon pink backgorund.  

Punk rock is a type/genre of music that started in the mid-1970's involving high-tempo, aggressive forms of music.

Image of the classic PiL logo: the red capital letters, P & L, are on a white background, while the white lower case letter, i, is on a red background.  Half of the image is vertically bordered by red.

After the breakup of the British punk rock band, Sex Pistols, singer John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) formed the avant-garde rock band Public Image Ltd in 1978.  Known for fusing multiple musical styles and influencing a generation of musicians; its original lineup was John Lydon, Keith Levene, Jah Wobble and Jim Walker.  John Lydon named the band after Muriel Spark’s novel, The Public Image.  Famed photographer Dennis Morris designed the PiL (aspirin) logo.  In 2013, Lydon received the BMI Icon Award for Songwriting.

Pete Townshend with his face between two guitar necks like jail bars on a white background with blue text above and Video EP in blue near the stop with its logo going from left to right.

Pete Townshend is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known for playing guitar in the band The Who. Townshend has also had a sucessful solo career, releasing 7 albums between 1972 and 1993.

This button promotes the 1982 video release of a 30 minute film that originally aired on MTV.  The film featured videos for songs from Townshend's 4th solo album 'All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes,' released in the same year.

Photograph of Ozzy Osbourne with his mouth agape, yelling.  Image is c. 1981, from the Diary of a Madman album.  

Ozzy Osbourne is an English rock star, song writer and television star known for fronting the band Black Sabbath. Known to some as the Godfather of Heavy Metal, Osbourne has had a successful career both in Black Sabbath and as a solo performer. From 2002-2005, he and his wife Sharon starred in the MTV reality show The Osbournes with their children, Jack and Kelly.

The image on this button the same as image printed on the Diary of a Madman limited edition live picture disc

Photograph of Ozzy Ozbourne wearing a red cloak and holding a cross while surrounded by bats. Red text on a blue background with black border. 

Ozzy Osbourne is an English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. The photograph this button is based on is from the album Blizzard of Ozz, the debut solo album by Ozzy Osbourne. The album was recorded in Surrey, UK and released on September 20, 1980 in the United Kingdom and March 27, 1981 in the United States.

Capitalized red text over the black and white image of Ozzy Osbourne with his arms in the air.  

Lead vocalist of the heavy metal rock group Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne debuted his first solo project, Blizzard of Ozz, in the Fall of 1980. Dedicated to the work of Aleister Crowley, a well-known English magician, Mr. Crowley was one of the first singles released from that album.