by admin | Jun 18, 2021 | Post Slider
It was 1986 and I’d been on the road with Sigue Sigue Sputnik for a couple of days. They’d played a gig in Leeds the previous night and we’d just arrived at a little bed and breakfast in Newcastle upon Tyne. I dumped my stuff in my room and went down to the bar where...
by admin | Jun 5, 2021 | Post Slider
By the time of this picture, it was 1970 and I was working in Detroit for the short-lived rock’n’roll publication Big Fat Magazine. Iggy Pop and I went to the same high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I graduated a year ahead of him. I was not particularly into...
by admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Post Slider
He thought they were pop lightweights – then turned them into moody megastars. The photographer recalls his adventures with the band, from desert trips to drug-induced near-death experiences. ‘I felt they had soul’ … Dave Gahan in Denmark, 1987. Photograph: All images...
by admin | May 15, 2021 | Post Slider
“Maybe it’s got something to do with the ridiculously ‘glam’ look of the magic duo and the obviously mundane nature of their British Rail lunch.” David Bowie and Mick Ronson on a train to Aberdeen, taken by Mick Rock. Last Ziggy Stardust Tour. “Taken on...
by admin | May 13, 2021 | Post Slider
Skaters, dancers, hustlers, boxers … Swiss photographer Willy Spiller prowled the streets of the Big Apple from 1977 to 1985. Leroy in Harlem, 1984 Sunday Morning on Orchard Street, NY, 1980 Whether he focused his camera on subway rides, dancers at the legendary...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | Post Slider
This simple electrical device does much of the fundamental work of modern civilization, and it does so modestly and invisibly. An early AC transformer constructed by George Westinghouse in the 1890s. I have always disliked exaggerated claims of imminent scientific and...
