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My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!

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Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

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It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

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I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

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I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

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It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.

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Every morning I stand on my head and do a yoga workout.

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People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

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I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.

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Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was starting to percolate. I'd seen a couple of pictures of David, with his interesting hairdo and outfits, and I decided to seek him out, which wasn't difficult back then, as he was eager to do any kind of publicity.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Photographer

Born: Unknown

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