Photographer Mick Rock, famed for his Bowie and Queen portraits, dies at 72

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Mick Rock was dubbed 'the man who shot the 70s”. He was 72.

Photographer Mick Rock, whose iconic portraits of rock stars including David Bowie, Lou Reed and Debbie Harry saw him dubbed"the man who shot the 70s,” has died. He was 72.

Born in London in 1948, Rock studied at Cambridge University, where he met Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd, who became one of his first subjects. Rock went on to take some of the most famous music photos of the era: a topless Iggy Pop on the cover of thethe members of Queen, their faces part-shadowed, for the cover of"People say, ‘Man, how did you get all these pictures? Well, because no one else was interested,” Rock told the Associated Press in 2002."It wasn’t like I was battling other photographers to get the pictures.”

 

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