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    Feel the Byrne

    Feb 13, 2018 6 minutes
    Source:   Alec shot some of the biggest names in 1960s rock, gathered here for the filming of Rock and Roll Circus in December, 1968  

    Alec gets ‘the look' from Mick Jagger during the filming of Performance , released in 1968

    An early Bowie portrait taken on the Humble Pie tour in Coventry, 1969

    Talk about being in the right place at the right time – imagine being a 19-year-old rock fan with a camera and getting paid by NME to shoot gigs. Oh, and it’s also London in 1968 – an incredibly fruitful and influential year in popular music, spawning music albums such as the White Album, Beggars Banquet and Electric Ladyland. It sounds like a scene from a movie, but this is the real-life story of Alec Byrne, who went from being a teenage mod with a job in a press darkroom to shooting some of the greatest names in rock and roll. Alec has recently released a book, London Rock: The Unseen, which chronicles his glory days from 1967-1977, along with an exhibition at London’s Proud Gallery, and we couldn’t wait to hear more about his remarkable career.

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