For those of you that like music, as in the music I grew up with, not the rubbish they record now. This is a great magazine, the features and news from the Melody Maker/NM...
London... and I'm going through last weeks photos, so some Black Sabbath who I loved photographing. Jimmy Page shot last month in London plus some travel...
Went to a Christmas party at the Sunset Marquis where I ran into Joe Bonamassa who I haven’t seen in ages (we talked Les Pauls I used to sell them in my teens). Hung out with Chad Kroeger who I always enjoy seeing...
Off to Los Angeles, this morning 10am flight which means up at 5am leave at 6am to beat rush hour. Thought I'd go to bed at 11pm the night before then found myself not sleeping at all...
Off to Los Angeles tomorrow morning, I found this boarding card in an old box of passes I had in my attic. This was from the day's of no security where you just walked on the plane...
I woke up to the news about the death of Scott Weiland. Very very sad. I wouldn't say I was best friends with Scott although I did connect with him whenever I photographed him...
I was thinking about the difference of taking photos from the 'Old' days of film, mainly because Judas Priest and Michael Schenker had perfect lighting and I wish I'd shot some...
The Priest were amazing, the best Heavy Metal Band, nobody does it better than them plus they played my two all time favourite Priest songs Beyond the Realms of Death and Victims of Changes...
Def Leppard on the cover of the Times Arts section today. Uncredited always annoying - still my second times cover in a couple of months...
GREAT Def Leppard show in Singapore, nice vibe to it, my only real complaint was the venue had so much AC it was freeeeeeezing like being stuck in a fridge...
Singapore - Woke up to sunshine then thunder and lightening... so what do you do? Get Def Leppard in The Marina Bay Sands pool...
After three days of rainy Melbourne it was off to Singapore-I was quite sad to leave Australia would like to have stayed longer if the sun had been out. Melbourne-Sydney are like the UK you can't count on the weather...
In Melbourne, I went to see LIVE play at the Forum Theatre. They were soooooooo good. Seriously I’d forgotten about them and I’m so pleased I went...
Sydney to Melbourne today. Got up at 6am and got to the airport to find my flight was delayed for four hours, nice. Virgin Australia at least the crew were really nice and friendly it made a great change...
First day I arrived I walked with Joe Elliott from Hyde Park to the Rocks and while walking down Pitt Street we bumped into Cliff Williams from ACDC...
Went to Tsukiji fish market for the first time in years it was full of tourists. The Fish mongers were getting pissed off with them and I could see why nobody buying anything just taking photos. Me included if I'm honest...
I thought I'd sleep on the flight - I managed a whole two hours awoke over India Annapura Mountains - Kathmandu - Mount Everest - Darjeeling then south over Kolkata...
Flying today London-Bangkok-Tokyo brand new A380 on Thai. It has Wi-Fi onboard nothing new in this day and age but I'm still amazed you can email and get emails...
November and the weather is still sort of nice-ish in London. Strange for this time of year...
I have a new Box Set available in the shop - The Classic Motörhead Box Set - Which includes some of my favourite shots and memories from the early days...
Just got home after ten days in Los Angeles, just in time for winter as the clocks have gone back. Dark at 4pm until next March... I hate winter...
A strange day flying to Los Angeles last Friday, it was as if the plane was chasing the light and as we got over Utah it was gone...
Off to Los Angeles today, so have been playing some old Los Angeles 'Blues' Canned Heat. Heat and Steppenwolf are two of the most underrated bands of all time...
Live After Death came out thirty years ago today. That's a long time ago-did I think then I'd be writing this now then 'Nooooo'...
Some Tesla from Shoreline in San Francisco last month, slowly going through all my stuff I’ve photographed...
I’ve been playing records randomly, the Jimi Hendrix is from the Royal Albert Hall show which was filmed and still has never come out...
It's been fantastic weather in London but you can feel winter coming, cold at night...
An eclipse this morning, I stayed up until 3am trying to shoot it-hand held with no tripod.
A sunny London and very nice it is to...
A couple of photos landing over a sunny London plus few of Def Leppard from San Francisco Shoreline show where Joe thinks he’s playing for Sheffield United...
Los Angeles... Flying home tonight. Been great weather even in San Francisco where I photographed Def Leppard at Shoreline. It's been awhile since I'd been there...
The last two night's I was in the company of the Hollywood Vampires at the Roxy in Los Angeles. The Roxy is with out a doubt one of the worst places to photograph a band...
I have a seriously messed up foot, now officially limping I saw a doctor in Sacramento and a German foot specialist in London both told me my days of using a treadmill are over...
In Los Angeles, I flew over on the new 787 Dreamliner it was really good. The plane had windows that worked by pressing a LED button and the best part was the route map which had a screen that was interactive and you could zoom in on your home...
Spent the last weekend flying, first to Frankfurt then on to Moscow to meet up with Aerosmith, who were playing a show for nine hundred years of the city of Moscow - maybe I'm missing a few years...
Have been at home for a week sorting out my records. I'm kind of obsessed with Japanese singles. So here's a few of my covers...
A few records... this I got in mint condition in Japan. It's been around for years, but hard to find a mint copy. This is the warm up show for Knebworth and Zeppelin play well...
As the August bank holiday looms I've been reading or trying to catch up on books. I prefer hard backs even though in this day and age they are a pain to carry travelling, still I'm not giving in to Kindle yet...
Back home after a day of travelling Houston airport which looked like it was last renovated in the 1970's. A main terminal which has one Starbucks, a taco stand, a small sandwich stand and it covers ten airlines...
After couple of days travelling I'm in Dallas. No matter how many times I've been here and it's been a few times, I have no sense of where I am...
Been travelling the last couple of weeks Lisbon where I made the effort of seeing the statue of Christ over looking the city and the huge sculpture of the explorers over looking the water I think it's Vasco De Gamma but I could be wrong...
Japan, off home tomorrow. I'd happily stay here if I could. One of the 7 inch single's I found was Gloria Mundi a band I first photographed for Rod Smallwood in 1977, the night Elvis died...
Flew today to Hiroshima, I have not been here since 1985. It is very poignant as next Monday is seventy years since the bomb was dropped. Went with Jimmy Page as he was laying flowers and meeting the Mayor...
I've been in Tokyo for a week now, must admit I do like it here - I could easily live here. Went to the Fuji Festival with the Foo Fighters, always good to see them and I even REALLY miss Taylor Hawkins...
Man Erotica French single banned in the UK-Krokus as it reminds me of touring America with Def Leppard in 1983 where you'd alway's see a bare chested Marc Storace walking around backstage with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a woman on each arm...
I had forgotten all about this photo shoot it seems ages ago. Andrew and I had driven down to Newport Beach got a Mustang then drove back up the coast...
I was photographing Brandon Flowers in Paris last month I’d forgotten about this, he was amazing good light show as well. I do hear shooting the Killers is no fun at all...
Boston... it's like being in a mini Ireland, U2 are here so are Def Leppard's crew all Irish like a Paddy Invasion. The show today is at Mansfield forty five minutes out in the woods, I've been here a few times with Sabbath...
Spent yesterday driving two hours from Boston to Meadowbrook Arts Centre out in the woods. The first person I see is Jeff Keith talking to a goat and I mean having a full on conversation as if the goat is going to talk back to him...
A few days in Los Angeles. Visited Mr. Joe Perry at his home in the Hollywood Hills. He was the most tanned I'd ever seen him, sort of like Geronimo the apache chief...
I get asked what or who inspired me as a photographer. I used to give a list of all the famous '60's music photographers as it was easy to sound inspired...
Instead of some music tour photos thought I'd start July with some photos of Phil Collen and his daughter Samantha Rae Collen who I photographed together in Florida...
West Palm Beach Florida, Def Leppard and Tesla plus Jeff Keith who's just been released from the local mental institution as lets be honest Jeff does not have a brain...
So off to Tampa where we landed after flying through thunder lighting rain etc... and being thrown all over the sky, I was oddly at peace and I wasn't even on the pills...
Faith No More The Roundhouse, second night and as I’m off to Spain this weekend The Gods Of Thunder Kiss...
The day before I'd gone to the Led Zeppelin playback at Olympic Studios, best track was a melancholy piano track from Presence called POD...
Sunday was Download.Now I'd love to go to one where it was actually nice weather, it's been great weather in London and what do we get for the weekend...
In Verona with the Gods Of Thunder 'KISS'. Amazing venue a 2,000 year old Roman Coliseum. It was so hot you got cooked during the day and cooked alive by Kiss at night...
Some statues in Florence that I photographed obviously copied from the torso of Phil Collen...
Judas Priest Oslo... some Friday Heavy Metal...
My journey started with landing in Oslo to rain gushing winds and cold. Winter was back...
More Def Leppard from the 02 Arena in Prague -I'll be joining them again next week in Scandinavia...
Some travel from Prague, I avoided trying to shoot the sites thought I'd concentrate on the old statutes. Funny it's like being in Disney World except it's all real...
Def Leppard in Prague first time in years since I've been to an arena here. It used to be a disgusting 'Shithole' and I can't even remember what it was called...
A picture of Def Leppard I like, simple I know but I like it. Plus an old CD I got in Japan years ago which also has my photo...
I did get some Def Leppard shorts to give Joe Elliott's 'Valet' Chris Vranian shorts - he likes tight pink clothes...
Montreal started off cold then it suddenly turned into high summer. Spent last Sunday waking around with Phil Collen, it was as if it was 1983...
Greetings from Montreal, I have not been here in about thirty years. I think the last time was with Motley Crue on The Shout At The Devil Tour. I did come a couple of times with Iron Maiden but that was way before that...
The new issue of Mojo has Ian Hunter's Diary from Japan earlier this year, it's a good read go and find it. Finally Joe Elliott during a recent fashion shoot for Italian Vogue...
Some travel from last week, plus a few record cover's just because I like album artwork and have been playing records...
Back home after a quick visit to Hamburg for my Gallery opening at the Flo Peters Gallery which I highly enjoyed. One of the highlights was meeting photographer Volker Hinz...
Writing this on my way home to London, after Def Leppard in Vancouver. I got three hours sleep had to be at Vancouver airport at 4am to clear US Customs...
Now I fly a lot and the view landing in Vancouver was spectacular. Jaw dropping, the city with mountains going off into the great wide open...
In Los Angeles, nice to be somewhere warm. I flew on the Air New Zealand flight out of London, the last flight of the day. This meant I was following the last light of the day for eleven hours...
Photographed Ronnie Wood this week, the highlight of my day was Ronnie signed my Baron Wolman print of the Jeff Beck Group and a Barry Plummer print from the Weeley Festival in 1971plus Ronnie knew exactly where it was...
My other find was a Phil Lynott Poster just for the graphics. Found an Iron Maiden bootleg 7inch which has my photo from the first photo shoot I did with them in Leicester Square...
I had to go to the Russian Consulate to get a visa for later this summer,it was easier than I expected although I was finger printed...
Monday and Wednesday I was in the company of Jeff Beck photographing him for his Genesis Publications book out later this year...
The new issue of Classic Rock is good, an issue all about Vinyl. There is a bit where I talk about my top ten vinyl bootleg LP's which includes Queen which I was "Told" I had to add. Here are a few missing from the list...
Randy Rhoads died today in 1982 and I still remember the phone call telling me about it. Hard to think it’s been thirty three years...
I've been having a re-discovering Deep Purple mode, Andy Copping gave me some old Deep Purple vinyl. One of which was Powerhouse a cash in EMI...
Thought I'd put up some travel, this is going to and around Asia/Australia. I am trying to show how you look at the earth from above, a bit limited as I can't control what we fly over...
A very sunny and warm Saturday I went to the Victoria Record Fair, where I used to go in the '90's looking for records...
I'm writing this on my way home directly above the Nicobar Islands in Asia. After Auckland I went to Melbourne and saw Peter and Ange from Vicious Slouth Records. One of the best vinyl shops you could find...
Auckland last show of the Soundgarden Tour. I'm going to miss being on tour with them I had a great time...
The Soundgarden show was hot and sweaty. After two and a half songs one of the security knocked my camera lens away from my face. I showed him my Soundgarden pass, "If you don't move I smash your fucking face in" were his exact words...
As much as I enjoy Melbourne the weather was ‘Dire’. So it was nice to be in a very sunny and warm Sydney. Sound garden played at the Big Top in Luna Park...
Australia... Adelaide was roasting hot 40C, and Melbourne was hot in a Texas summer heat way, great black clouds yet it felt as if someone was going to tread on you the air was heavy. It was as if you could push the sky if you reached up...
Left a rainy Sydney for Adelaide today, it’s baking hot 30C and sunny. Photographed Soundgarden rehearsing at the old showgrounds...
Got up at 6am waited for the sun to rise over a sunny London. Finished packing and was off to Heathrow Terminal 2 for a long flight to Australia...
A few compilation LP's I dug out I used to buy these in the 1970's. The first one I ever got was Bumpers as it had Thunderbuck Ram by Mott The Hoople on it...
Some Ian Hunter from Tokyo, have been going through all the photos today. So here's a few...
As I am still barely alive and on death's door with a bad chest. I spent Saturday reading the papers mainly a huge feature in the Guardian on why we are obsessed with the Nazi's. A good point...
A Led Zeppelin kind of day at Olympic Studios London. It was a playback of Physical Graffiti and a Q and A with Jimmy Page...
A Led Zeppelin kind of day at Olympic Studios London. It was a playback of Physical Graffiti and a Q and A with Jimmy Page...
I am writing this on death's door, well I have a cold and a bad chest and feel extremely sorry for myself...
Strange being in Brazil, I have not been here for fourteen years yet Sao Paulo and even more so Rio are oddly familiar...
Flew last night on British Airways to Sao Paulo, not a bad flight just a long flight. Got in at dawn to a rainy hot Sao Paulo, now the not so fun bit was customs stopping me and wanting to know if I'm here to sell my cameras...
Flying home today on Virgin, which is going to stop flying to Japan at the end of this month. I'm going to miss it, the crew were younger and far more friendlier than ANA...
I've been enjoying hanging out with Ian Hunter from going to his shows to just doing tourist stuff even going to dinner at Hama the steak house where you get Matsuzaka Gyu...
Thank you to everyone who bought a "Classic Live" Box Set. We appreciate all of the great feedback...
Off to Tokyo today to photograph Ian Hunter, can't say I'm looking forward to the flight. I am looking forward to seeing Ian who has never played in Japan...
I've been playing The Who, a band I loved as a teenager then kind of got fed up listening to them. I mean I liked them, just stopped playing them, so I thought over the holiday I'd play some records and see what I could find...
Another thing I did was visit The Imperial War Museum in London. Now I used to love going here my father took me as a child, the last time I went was with Paul Stanley, it was amazing...
My last bit of diary until next year... I had a good year photographing Def Leppard. A lot of fun on tour with them the far east was great...