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PhotoSynthesis: Sid Vicious

Previous | Next The Sex Pistols broke up approximately two hours after that photo was shot. I love that picture, 'cause of all the goobers hanging off of him. If you look really closely, you'll see two or three big gobs of snot. When you show that picture to a certain age group, they swoon -- there's no other word to use. Their temperature goes up ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Jimmy Page

Previous | Next Indianapolis, 1975: Usually you know when you've captured an iconic image; I had no idea on this one. I was sitting at the same table as Jimmy [Page]. He went through this period where he always had a bottle of Jack Daniel's with him, and I happened to look up just as he had lifted the bottle up. I shot one frame ... and I forgot ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Frank Zappa

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1979: "Those nutty, crazy Zappas," people would say with a snicker -- that's the way people looked upon them at the time. I was shooting Frank for PEOPLE and he had been reading the Financial Times that morning. And who would think of Frank Zappa reading the Financial Times? After that I shot him playing pingpong (the ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Billy Joel

Previous | Next Moscow, 1987: I was Billy's tour photographer for the two-week tour of Russia in 1987. The tour was a killer, but Russia was amazing. I had never worked with Billy before, and I saw immediately that he was on a crusade to rock the country, and the people adored him. They were amazing fans, and they knew every f***ing word of every ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Bruce Springsteen at Wembley

Previous | Next London, 1985: That's at the height of the 'Born in the USA' tour. During the intermission of the concert, I clamped a remote-controlled Nikon onto a railing at stage right, pre-focused it, dropped the long shutter release cable underneath the stage and waited for Bruce to hit his mark during 'Hungry Heart.' This shot says "Bruce ...

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PhotoSynthesis: Bruce Springsteen at Home

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1994: That's Bruce in his home studio in L.A. I think he was just finishing up 'Tom Joad.' I've always loved photographs of musicians in their recording studios. I happened to be at his house one day going over some photos with Patti [Scialfa, Springsteen's wife], so I asked him, "Sometime, whenever you feel like it, ...

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PhotoSynthesis: David Bowie

Previous | Next Los Angeles, 1976: The great thing about that [David Bowie] tour, was that it had some of the most phenomenal concert lighting I've ever seen, even to this day. It was all white light, clean and pure, and if there were some higher metaphorical meaning to the lighting design, I couldn't have cared less. This show was fun to shoot. ...

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