Before Bad Gal, There Was Nasty Gal: The Bold, Funky Style of Betty Davis Inline

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    NEW YORK - 1st FEBRUARY: American singer Betty Davis posed in New York in February 1976. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

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    Portrait of American singer Betty Davis (Betty Mabry), 1969. (Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)

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    Portrait of American singer Betty Davis (nee Mabry), New York, New York, 1969. (Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)

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    American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and his wife, funk singer, Betty Davis at their home in New York City, October 1969. (Photo by Baron Wolman/Iconic Images/Getty Images)

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    American funk singer Betty Davis photographed in studio for Rags, a counterculture fashion magazine published monthly by Baron Wolman in San Francisco from June 1970 through June 1971, October 1970. (Photo by Baron Wolman/Iconic Images/Getty Images)