I found myself being overtaken by a posh accent and my assistants began to comment and laugh. Then I realised it was a hangover from my over doing it the night before and then I realised I had stopped taking drugs 20 years ago, so there was no excuse.

He had the most extraordinary way of playing the guitar using open tuning with his thumb over the top of the fretboard.  The guitar almost became a part of him Bianca came and sat under the spotlight and looked at me and leaning forward whispered “Are you ok Clive, you look a bit spaced out?” “I […]

Jean, without any sense of irony said, “Mmmmmm, Mmmmm, Enjoy” as if she had presented an eight-course gourmet meal, arms triumphantly gesticulating towards the feast. The maid had very kindly cut the pizza into eight pieces that were no bigger than a minuscule Ortolan.

I decided it would be fun to shoot in my garden as it was looking particularly good and I had some interesting lighting ideas. I decided to back light all the foliage in the garden so I could capture the the translucence quality of leaves and branches, which gave everything a more mystical look.

After Art School in 1968  I worked stoking boilers at a local telephone exchange from 6am until 2pm – just so I could paint in the afternoons, those were the days. I then very fortunately got a job at Rediffusion’s Graphics studios, as someone there had seen my drawings and paintings in a graphic arts […]

I decided it would be fun to shoot in my garden as it was looking particularly good and I had some interesting lighting ideas. I decided to back light all the foliage in the garden so I could capture the the translucence quality of leaves and branches, which gave everything a more mystical look.

I decided it would be fun to shoot in my garden as it was looking particularly good and I had some interesting lighting ideas. I decided to back light all the foliage in the garden so I could capture the the translucence quality of leaves and branches, which gave everything a more mystical look.

I first met David in 1968 with Hermione Farthingale and John Hutchinson when they were all in the band Feathers. I had just acquired a second hand Hasselblad on HP and was a fledgling photographer. I hired a small inexpensive studio in a basement in Holborn. The shoot itself was very relaxed and fun, we […]

My assistant set up the lights and I wanted it lit in such a way that his head and hands where the only thing that was illuminated with the rest of his body in darkness. Once we’d set up the lights I noticed he had very shiny patent shoes which I also lit from the […]

Even when I asked her if I could pour water over her head. She said yes and then my assistant was duly instructed to stand on a tall ladder and sprinkle water over her. ‘It’s Clive,” I ventured we have a meeting about your movie”, there was a clattering of what sounded like cans, then […]

I first met Peter Gabriel at the Vogue studios in Hanover Square, London in 1970. The studios were on the top floor of Vogue House, Peter arrived with various theatrical and creative costumes of his own design and his bizarrely shaved U shaped bald patch on the crown of his head. I will write about […]

I was always admired the mystique created by Ian Hunter always wearing shades much like the fabulous Jeff Lyne of ELO, it is his ‘look’. Shades are  part of rock and roll imagery that Dylan used and in my opinion Bono has never quite pulled off (sorry Bono).   It reminds me of Marlon Brando’s […]

I was sinking further into disappointment as the art director leant forward said in an almost intimate whisper “and a lingerie shoot.” At that moment I heard Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in the background It has to be said that Friday nights launch of Peter Gabriel Reflections at The Museum of Bath Architecture was … […]

Everyone asks me ‘How did you get that beautiful shape, like a wave on the dress’ ? Confession; I did not use wind, wire or strings. I simply had my assistant throw the skirt in the air from the side and quickly pull his hand out of shot. Many of the frames had his arm […]