2021年11月16日火曜日
'The man who shot the 70s': Music world pays tribute to legendary photographer Mick Rock who has died aged 72... after taking some of the world's most iconic portraits from David Bowie to Lou Reed and Freddie Mercury
- Londoner, dubbed 'the man who shot the 70s', took the most famous pictures of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era
- He became Bowie's photographer and confidante and was also great friends with Lou Reed and Syd Barrett
- Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr said he was a 'photographic poet' and compared a shoot to 'taking crack'
- For 50 years he photographed biggest stars in music from the Rolling Stones to Queen and Daft Punk
- Fought addiction to cocaine for 20 years until the 1990s - he would swap the drugs for yoga and acupuncture
The Londoner, dubbed 'the man who shot the 70s' and 'the music world's top snapper', took the most famous pictures of the Ziggy Stardust era and became Bowie's closest friend and confidante until the singer's death in 2016.
He would also direct Bowie's videos for Space Odyssey, Life on Mars, Jean Genie and John, I'm Only Dancing while the stars he photographed compared photo sessions with him to 'taking crack'. In his heyday Rock would famously insist on standing on his head for 30 minutes before taking a single frame - saying the rush of blood, oxygen and the cocaine usually in his system improved his work.
Rock is survived by his wife Pati and their photographer daughter Nathalie, who today announced he had passed away but not the cause of death. He famously spent 20 years trying to beat an addiction to narcotics that began after meeting Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett when he studied at Cambridge - but later in life the photographer would swap hard drugs for yoga, massage and acupuncture.
In a 50-year career, Rock went on to create album covers for rock legends the Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop the Ramones, Mötley Crüe and The Sex Pistols. Other subjects included Debbie Harry, rapper Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk, Debbie Harry, Ozzie Osbourne and most frequently his close friend David Bowie. Queen's iconic video for Bohemian Rhapsody was a recreation of a photograph he took of Freddie Mercury and the band.
'It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side,' his family said in a message posted on his Twitter page.
'He was a photographic poet - a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way. He was a mythical creature; the likes of which we shall never experience again.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10221533/Legendary-Bowie-photographer-Mick-Rock-dies-aged-72.html
2021年11月9日火曜日
Sheer Heart Attack と Death on Two Legs
"Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)" is a song by the British rock band Queen and is the opening track on their fourth album A Night at the Opera. The song was written by Freddie Mercury about the band's fall-out with their original manager and Trident Studios owner Norman Sheffield. Though the song makes no direct reference to him, Sheffield sued both the band and the record label for defamation. This resulted in an out-of-court settlement,[3] thus revealing to the public his connection with the song. Mercury said that his lawyer had cautioned him against discussing the lyrics, but that it was written from a “very emotional” place for which he felt music was the best outlet.[4] Roger Taylor also noted that despite the success of "Killer Queen" and Sheer Heart Attack, the album preceding A Night at the Opera, the band was broke before the album was made.[5] Sheffield denied that he or his companies had mistreated the band in his capacity as manager, and cited the original 1972 management contracts between himself and Queen in his autobiography published in 2013, Life on Two Legs: Set The Record Straight, in his defence.
The song was recorded and mixed at Sarm East Studios in late 1975. As with "Bohemian Rhapsody", most of the guitar parts on the song were initially played on piano by Mercury, to demonstrate to Brian May how they needed to be played on guitar.
2 件のコメント:
次はJoe The Lionぐらいでしょうか
多分一昔前以上前に観た写真展が
ミックロックのだったような記憶
目当てはクィーンでそれで食い付きw
懐いわ東京都写真美術館
その記念写真集買って持っているw
彼が撮ってきたアーティスト
何故だか息が長かった感じね
SMAP〜
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