What’s it like being a photographer to so many famous people?
It’s only now that I’ve slowed down a bit do I realise how many great people I’ve photographed, you don’t realise along the way, you just take them, and suddenly you look at what you’ve done and it’s quite impressive. Q: Did you ever get star struck? A: No, when I first started I photographed people and I didn’t know who they were, or they were supposed to be somebody, and then when I got a job on a newspaper the first people who I photographed were the Beatles funnily enough, and that took three months to publish, and once it published it caused such a furore, it was the first pop picture to be used in a newspaper, so that started the use of pop pictures in newspapers …They’d just made a record and it was just before it came out. Q: So you were one of the first people to photograph the Beatles? A: Yeah, well I used to be a Jazz musician and that’s how, so they sort off knew everything about music and rock and roll had just came in and they really had a different sound so it was quite
