Suzi Quatro kicked ass and in 1973 that was something special - this portrait from our first session together has become an iconic image
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This was the cover for Suzie Quatro's first album
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This image of Suzie and the band was used to advertise their first #1 single Can the Can
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I worked with Suzie and her band a lot throughout the 70s - this was a promotion shot from 1974
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Suzie and the band in a press shot from 1974
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Suzie's band were always supportive in the photos - she was the leader of the pack!
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Elkie & Robert were both in a terrific band called Vinegar Joe and had a powerful sexual chemistry on-stage which I tried to capture in this portrait
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Jook were a great band with a terrific "look" and I have always loved this portrait of them that I shot in the deserted floor above my studio in Soho
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The team of Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman wrote and produced many of the most successful pop records of the 70s for many artists including Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Mud and Exile and were my most important clients during the decade
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The highly respected singer Roger Chapman and the guitarist Charlie Whitney left the band Family that they had founded and made the "Streetwalkers" album for which this was the promotional portrait
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These three portraits of Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp and John Wetton were shot for the cover of their 1974 album "Red" - I had worked with Robert when he was in Giles, Giles & Fripp back in 1968 and would go on to work with Bill on his solo album cover for "Feels Good to Me" in 1977 and also in 1985 for his collaboration with Patrick Moraz called "Flags"
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Jennie Haan was the vocalist in the band Babe Ruth and this is one of the portraits I shot for the cover of their album "Babe Ruth" where we shot a series of solo studio portraits with each member illustrating a particular song - Jenny is portraying the "Duchess of Orleans"
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Jobriath was the stage name of Bruce Wayne Campbell and this portrait was for the cover of his second album "Creatures of the Night" - billed as the "new" David Bowie Jobriath was extraordinarily talented and first came to fame in the musical Hair from which he was fired for upstaging - he was the first openly gay artist to be signed to a major record company and tragically one of the first international artists to die of Aids in 1983
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Alvin had various degrees of success in a career that spanned five decades and under several names including Shane Fenton
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Brett Smiley was a child actor in his native America and appeared as Oliver in the Broadway production of the famous musical. In 1974 he was managed & produced by Andrew Loog Oldham who asked me to shoot the portraits for his album "Breathlessly Brett" which wasn't actually released until 2003 just a few years before his sad death in 2016
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I had become friends with Andy back in the 60s when he and his band The Amen Corner had recorded for Immediate Records and I had shot several sessions with them, and then shot this portrait in my Soho studio for the cover of his second solo album "La Booga Rooga"
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I worked a lot with Hot Chocolate and their charismatic singer Errol Brown who were produced by the great Mickie Most and were on his RAK label who were one of my most important clients over many years
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Chris Spedding was a successful session guitarist who worked with many artists and appeared in various bands before he had a solo hit called "Motor Biking" in 1975. This portrait which we shot at Camber Sands and featured my much loved 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88, was for his first solo album cover. At the same time I also directed my first (and last) promo for Chris to promote his single "Jump in My Car"
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