Thanks for the interest - strange how a thread can come back to life! To avoid disappointing anyone, let's just make it clear that the gallery show was LAST YEAR!
However, all the images from the show are still on line (and for sale - us old hippies need the money!).
In answer to Bill: I never really was a music industry photographer, I did the pix of Bowie because I knew him reasonably well through Beckenham Arts Lab (this was the period in his career when he'd had one success with "Space Oddity" but it was going to be a couple more years before he'd hit the big time as Ziggy Stardust). At this time (end of the 1960s), it seemed to be very difficult to get money out of the music press and record companies as a photographer. If you didn't have a trust fund, forging a career involved living on fresh air for a year or two, which I found rather difficult. Also, the playing volumes of rock groups went up quite a lot at the end of the 60s, I found this unpleasant, particularly squeezed against a speaker stack as one often is when photographing live gigs. The quintessential music photographer is probably someone like Mick Rock, who (triple bypass notwithstanding) seems to thrive on the lifestyle - I didn't! One of the nice things about going to the private view last year was that I met up with Ray Stevenson, another photographer whom I hadn't seen since the Beckenham days. Ray was much more serious about being a music photographer than me and really got around photographing everyone - he still makes a living from selling these pix today.
Regards,
David
