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PHOTOGRAPHER ROSS HALFIN thought he had named his book on Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford after a stage announcement from the band’s 1978 live album Live! Bootleg… until the words concerned turned out to have been misheard. For decades, Halfin thought Steven Tyler had announced Lord Of The Thighs with a cry of: “Listen to Whitford.” Until he was corrected by the singer, who had simply said: “Mr Whitford.”

Either way, made for a great title for a collection of images of a

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