Probably my favourite artist of 2011. Probably the nicest guy in music and Alfie is probably the nicest dog in music ! We had to tease him with every chocolate bar, ham sandwich and biscuit in South London and still he didn’t look the slightest bit ferocious.
Shot a rehearsals on the North American Leg of the pop tour, the day before Bono’s (and mine) birthday
The Modfather in contemplative mood during soundcheck
Captured a few hours after Paul stormed out the Q awards after Phil Spector was given the “Beautiful Night” video later that evening
Ozzy as Dracula for Halloween. The prince of darkness
Shot in very low and beautiful light in 1994 at the Empress Ballrooms in Blackpool.. he was very calm strangely at this gig no thrashing the microphone about as normal.. I think his set was quite reflective, the single light illuminating Morrissey captured the theme beautifully.
We briefly and illegally closed the road with black stretch Limo’s, Lars pointing at me and James was laughing as irate cab drivers scream abuse from behind the roadblock
I wrote in his chest in red lipstick, we had a choice of words this was the most acceptable, months later I saw 3 kids walking through the crowd at the Reading Festival bare chested, with “UNSAFE” on their chest who says life doesn’t imitate art?
Shot in the Phoenix boxing gym in London during the shoot Frank Bruno pop in and put “Tainted Love” on the stereo
Lily was incredibly nervous as I stood beside her waiting for her first main stage appearance at Glastonbury, full of attitude maybe because of her nerves she flipped the bird to a crowd member who yelled a few catcalls and got a huge cheer from the audience, she’d completely won them over.
Shot in his hotel room with the help of 40 cigarettes and a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Shots backstage on the alive/worldwide tour in a tiny room in the bowels of the Wembley Arena, with his boots on Gene’s head touched the ceiling.
Shot on a promotional tour of Japan and Australia in the midst of the swine flu epidemic. They only wore masks for this shot. Tom returned with swine flu!
This was shot during the 21st Century Breakdown Tour.I was lying on the front of the stage and if you look closely are the 2 other members feet as they lie on the ground.
Shot at Madison SQ Gardens on the Twisted Logic tour of North America around the time of the X&Y tour
Shot at Madison SQ Gardens on the Twisted Logic tour of North America around the time of the X&Y tour
Performing the song Oceana, shot at the opening ceremony of the 2004 of the 2004 Olympics
Shot on the nine lives tour