When you shoot the king, you’d better not miss. In May 1973, teenager Dennis Morris skipped school because Bob Marley & The Wailers were in London to play at famous record industry hangout The Speakeasy. He was determined to get a shot of his new musical hero.
An obsessive photographer since learning the craft at Sunday school, Morris spent hours waiting for Marley. And when the chance came, he did not miss. In fact, he got so much more than a photograph.
Click: in an instant, his life changed. The next morning, Morris took off on the road with Bob Marley & The Wailers and any notions of becoming a war photographer like his hero Don McCullin went out of the tour bus window.
“I never planned to be a rock photographer,” Morris says now. “But meeting Bob Marley changed my life and opened so many doors.
“And what really changed my life was talking to Bob.
