Chris Farlowe who was one of the most highly thought of British R&B singers at the time came from Islington in London and I chose to take him back there for a series of portraits for his great single "Handbags & Gladrags"
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Joe Cocker was great fun to work with, pulling faces and generally having a good time - he had come down to London from his hometown of Sheffield and had just recorded "With a Little Help from my Friends"
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I worked with Soft Machine several times and produced the photography for their 1968 album "The Soft Machine"
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The Peddlers were a terrific band who I got to know pretty well because the played regularly at The Pickwick Club which I frequented at the time, as well as at The Scotch of St James which was next door to my studio
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I first met The Nice when they were PP Arnold's backing band but went on to shoot several album covers for them as well as this very contoversial shoot we did to promote their version of Leonard Bernstein's "America"
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Maureen Gray was a hugely talented American singer who had been a child prodigy back in New York and came to London where we became good friends and I shot a couple of sessions with her
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The Yardbirds were a great R&B band and for a short period in 1966 featured two of the greatest British guitarists of the decade Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck - I was so pleased to have been able to capture the moment this city "gent" in his bowler hat appeared between singer Keith Relf's legs!
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This shot was a publicity photograph to promote their album "It's All Abouth" which I did the cover for
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Steve Winwood formed Traffic having left the Spencer Davis Group and I worked with them several times including the cover for their debut album and this shot we did in my studio's little back office which was supposed to reflect their communal life-style and was my first shot to appear in Rolling Stone Magazine
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I photographed Cat in his bedroom in the family flat above his parents cafe in the West End of London
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Georgie Fame was a highly thought of musician playing the London clubs with his band the Blue Flames when he had a top ten hit with "Get Away" in 1966 having had a big hit the previous year with "Yeh Yeh"
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Giles Giles & Fripp might have looked zany but they evolved into King Crimson one of the great Progressive Rock bands
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FREE were to become legendary for their huge hit "All Right Now"
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Although I had known Jimmy Page for a while and had photographed him when he was in the Yardbirds this turned out to be the only time I was to work with Led Zeppelin
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The Electric Prunes were a Psychedelic Rock band from California who asked me to shoot with them because they loved my cover for the Stones "Between the Buttons" album - we had a great day together which proved very productive and the photographs have become quite legendary
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I was the photographer on the ill-fated TV show Supersession and had the opportunity to photograph several wonderful musicians including Eric Clapton
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Buddy Miles was a great rock drummer who among many achievements played with Jimi Hendrix in the Band of Gypsys
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I was so pleased to be able to photograph blues legend Buddy Guy at the TV show Supersession
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