Joan Collins
Joan Collins photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE (born 23 May 1933), is an English actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington and raised in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War. At the age of nine, she made her stage debut in A Doll’s House and after attending school, she was classically trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After eighteen months at the drama school, she was signed to an exclusive contract by the Rank Organisation and appeared in a number of British films.
At the age of 22, Collins headed to Hollywood and landed sultry roles in several popular films, including The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) and Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958). While she continued to make films in the United States and the United Kingdom throughout the 1960s, her career languished in the 1970s, when she was reduced to roles in horror flicks. Near the end of the decade, however, she starred in two films based on bestselling novels by her younger sister Jackie Collins: The Stud (1978) and its sequel The Bitch (1979). Returning to her theatrical roots, she played the title role in the 1980 British revival of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney and later had a lead role in the 1990 revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives.
In 1981, Collins landed Alexis Carrington (later Colby), the role for which she is perhaps best known, in the long running 1980s prime time television soap opera Dynasty. By the time the soap opera had been cancelled, Collins followed in her sister’s footsteps and published her first novel Prime Time (1988) which became a bestseller despite critical pans. Although retrieving publication issues with Random House in 1996, she has since published many books: both fictional, non-fictional and autobiographical.
Flamboyant in her personal life and equally flamboyant in roles she pursues, Collins continues to act in theatre, film and television in a career that has spanned 60 years. She has had varying guest arcs on a variety of television shows in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Isabella Rosellini
Isabella Rosellini photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.
Rossellini is a daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini. She has three siblings from her mother: her twin sister Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who is an adjunct professor of Italian literature; a brother, Robertino Ingmar Rossellini; and a half-sister, Pia Lindström, who formerly worked on television and is from her mother’s first marriage with Petter Lindström. She has four other siblings from her father’s two other marriages: Romano (died at age 9), Renzo, Gil, and Raffaella.
Rossellini was born in Rome, and raised there, as well as in Santa Marinella and Paris. She underwent an operation for appendicitis at the age of five. At 13, she was diagnosed with scoliosis. In order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18 month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts, surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones (used to add supports for the individual vertebrae without risking foreign body rejection issues), and a recovery from that surgery. Consequently, she has permanent incision scars on her back and shin.
At 19, she went to New York, where she attended Finch College, while working as a translator and a RAI television reporter. She also appeared intermittently on L’altra Domenica (“The Other Sunday”), a TV show featuring Roberto Benigni. However, she did not decide to stay full time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese (1979–1982).
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Muhammad Ali, Sportsman Of The Century
Muhammad Ali photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.
Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently practicing Sufism. In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship, he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali stated, “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong… No Viet Cong ever called me nigger” – one of the more telling remarks of the era.
Widespread protests against the Vietnam War had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to oppose the war for a generation of young Americans, and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali’s example inspired Martin Luther King Jr. – who had been reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own opposition to the war for the first time.
Ali would eventually be arrested and found guilty on draft evasion charges; he was stripped of his boxing title, and his boxing license was suspended. He was not imprisoned, but did not fight again for nearly four years while his appeal worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was eventually successful.
Ali would go on to become the first and only three-time lineal World Heavyweight Champion.
Nicknamed “The Greatest,” during his prime Ali was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these were three with rival Joe Frazier, which are considered among the greatest in boxing history, and one with George Foreman, where he finally regained his stripped titles seven years later. He also fought champions Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson and Ken Norton multiple times. Ali was well known for his unorthodox fighting style, which he described as “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”, and employing techniques such as the Ali Shuffle and the rope-a-dope. Ali had brought beauty and grace to the most uncompromising of sports and through the wonderful excesses of skill and character, he had become the most famous athlete in the world. He was also known for his pre-match hype, where he would “trash talk” opponents, often with rhymes.
In 1999, Ali was crowned “Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated and “Sports Personality of the Century” by the BBC.
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The Rolling Stones, One Of The Best Bands Of All Time.
The Rolling Stones on stage photographed by Gered Mankowitz.
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), and Keith Richards (guitar, vocals). Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up. Jones led the band until Jagger and Richards assumed leadership after teaming as songwriters. In 1969 Jones’ diminishing contributions to the band and his inability to tour, due to medical and legal complications, caused him to leave the band three weeks before drowning in his swimming pool. Jones’ replacement Mick Taylor stayed with the band until leaving voluntarily in 1974, since then Ronnie Wood has been the second guitarist. Wyman retired from the band in 1993; his replacement Darryl Jones has not been made a full member. Stewart was taken from the official line-up in 1963 and continued as the band’s road manager and occasional pianist until his death in 1985. Since 1982, Chuck Leavell has been the band’s primary keyboardist.
First popular in Europe, the Rolling Stones quickly became successful in North America during the British Invasion of the mid 1960s. Having released 22 studio albums in the United Kingdom (24 in the United States), eleven live albums (twelve in the US), and numerous compilations, their worldwide sales are estimated at more than 200 million albums. Sticky Fingers (1971) began a string of eight consecutive studio albums reaching number one in the United States. Their most recent album of new material, A Bigger Bang, was released in 2005. In 1989, the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004, they ranked number 4 in Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones at number ten on “The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists”, and as the second most successful group in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The emergence of the Rolling Stones has been credited for the greater international popularity of the primitive urban blues typified by Chess Records’ artists such as Muddy Waters, who wrote “Rollin’ Stone”, the song from which the band drew its name. The Rolling Stones’ endurance and relevance, critic and musicologist Robert Palmer said, is due to their being “rooted in traditional verities, in rhythm-and-blues and soul music” while “more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone”. Though R&B and blues cover songs dominated the Rolling Stones’ early material, their repertoire has always included rock and roll.
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Mark Bolan, Glam Rock Pioneer
Marc Bolan photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist. His music, as well as his highly original sense of style and extraordinary stage presence, helped create the glam rock era which made him one of the most recognisable stars in British rock music.
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George Harrison, The Beatles Guitarist
George Harrison photographed by Gered Mankowitz
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as “the quiet Beatle”, Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience. Following the band’s break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.
Although most of The Beatles’ songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison’s own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include “Here Comes the Sun”, “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. By the time of the band’s break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, “My Sweet Lord” backed with “Isn’t It a Pity”, and “What Is Life”. In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid-1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised the first major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. In addition to his musical accomplishments, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna.
He was married twice, to model Pattie Boyd from 1966 to 1974, and for 23 years to record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. He is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.
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Eric Clapton, Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Eric Clapton photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and fourth in Gibson’s Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname “Slowhand”. Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and “arty, blues-based psychedelic pop.” For most of the 1970s, Clapton’s output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were “Layla”, recorded by Derek and the Dominos, and Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads”, recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
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Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland with Patrick Lichfield photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Britt-Marie Ekland (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer, and a long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her high-profile social life.
Ekland’s father was a successful retailer in Stockholm, Sweden, her birthplace. The family name was Eklund. She has three younger brothers. Her mother died after a long battle with Alzheimers.
She was the Bond girl in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun. Other notable film appearances include The Night They Raided Minsky’s, Baxter!, The Double Man, Get Carter (in the 1999 BBC television series I Love the ’70s she hosted the 1971 episode in homage to her role as “Anna” in the film), and the 1973 cult film The Wicker Man (for which her voice was dubbed to disguise her Swedish-accented English). In 1975 she provided “whispers” in French on the end of then boyfriend Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright).
Ekland also portrayed biographical characters, such as the one based on real-life actress Anny Ondra (boxer Max Schmeling’s wife) in the television movie Ring of Passion (1978), and prostitute Mariella Novotny in the feature film Scandal (1989) about the Profumo affair.
She has guest starred on various TV shows, including an appearance on the popular TV series Superboy, playing Lara, Superboy’s biological mother, during the show’s second season in 1990. Ekland published a beauty and fitness book in 1984 Sensual Beauty: How to achieve it, followed by a fitness video in 1992. Ekland credits her personal trainer, Herb Genendelis, for a workout regimen that has kept her in “show biz shape”.
She appeared on stage as a cast member in Cinderella at the Regent Theatre Stoke-On-Trent in December 1999 and January 2000. She also appeared in Grumpy Old Women Live, in December 2007 participated in the Swedish reality show Stjärnorna på slottet (The stars at the castle) along with Peter Stormare, Arja Saijonmaa, Jan Malmsjö and Magnus Härenstam, and in December 2007 and January 2008 she starred again in Cinderella at Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre. She appeared as a guest on the top rated British daytime television show Loose Women, in January 2008. From December 2008 to January 2009, Britt starred in Cinderella at the Shaw Theatre in London. In a rare instance of her singing, she performed the song My Prince, originally recorded by Lara Pulver on the album Act One – Songs from the Musicals of Alexander S. Bermange. In 2009/10 she played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at Princess Theatre, Torquay. On 14 November 2010, she joined the celebrity cast in the hit UK reality show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. She was the 5th contestant to leave the show after lasting 16 days in the Australian jungle.
Between 8 December 2010 and 2 January 2011 she starred as the ‘Fairy Pea Pod’ in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Kings Theatre, Southsea in Portsmouth.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (born January 27, 1948) is a Soviet and American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine’s style of movement. He then danced with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
Baryshnikov has spearheaded many of his own artistic projects and has been associated in particular with promoting modern dance, premiering dozens of new works, including many of his own. His success as a dramatic actor on stage, cinema and television has helped him become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet dancer. In 1977, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his work as “Yuri Kopeikine” in the film The Turning Point.
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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), better known as Raquel Welch, is an American actress, author and sex symbol. Welch came to attention as a “new-star” on the 20th Century-Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in an animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. (1966), for which she may be best known. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), and the box office failure Myra Breckinridge (1970). Today, Welch is a noticeable face of television commercials for Foster Grant sunglasses and reading glasses.
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Albert Finney, Multi-Awarded Actor
Albert Finney photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor. He achieved prominence in films in the early 1960s, and has maintained a successful career in theatre, film and television. A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones (1963), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983), and Under the Volcano (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich (2000).
Finney is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His career began in the theatre; he made his first appearance on the London stage in 1958 in Jane Arden’s The Party, directed by Charles Laughton, who starred in the production along with his wife, Elsa Lanchester. Then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier (as Coriolanus), Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave.
His first film appearance was a role in Tony Richardson’s The Entertainer (1960), with Laurence Olivier, but he made his breakthrough with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz’s film version of Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. This led to a series of “Angry Young Man” roles in kitchen sink dramas, before he starred in the Academy Award-winning 1963 film Tom Jones. Prior to this, Finney had been chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean’s production of Lawrence of Arabia, but the actor quit after four days of shooting.
After Charlie Bubbles (1968), which he also directed, his film appearances became less frequent as he focused more on acting on stage. During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie’s Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney became so well-known for the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. “People really do think I am 300 pounds with a French accent” he said.
While being known for his dramatic roles, Finney appeared and sang in two musical films: Scrooge and the Hollywood film version of Annie, which was directed by John Huston, who would direct him once again in Under the Volcano two years later. He also sings in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.
Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man (1990), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage (1998) (with Tom Courtenay), and the lead role in Dennis Potter’s final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997. In the latter he played a frozen, disembodied head.
Finney also made an appearance at Roger Waters’ The Wall Concert in Berlin, where he played “The Judge” during the performance of “The Trial”.
In 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor.
He also played the leading role in the television series My Uncle Silas, about a Cornish country gentleman looking after his great-nephew. The series ran from 2000 until 2003.
A lifelong supporter of Manchester United, Finney narrated the documentary Munich, about the air crash that killed most of the Busby Babes in 1958, which was shown on United’s TV channel MUTV in February 2008.
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Roger Daltrey, One Of The Greatest Singers Of All Time
Roger Daltrey photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films. In 2008 he was ranked number 61 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.
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Smitten kitten! Kerry Katona glams up to attend charity auction with her boyfriend
She may have experienced her fair share of relationship troubles in the past but Kerry Katona’s latest romance certainly agrees with her.
The 31-year-old star looked glowing as she enjoyed a night out in London with her artist boyfriend Steve Alce last night.
The happy couple were on their way to famous nightclub Chinawhite to attend the Terry O’Neill charity auction.
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Steven Spielberg, Influential Filmmaker
Steven Spielberg photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg’s films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg’s early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of the DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg’s films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg’s wealth at $3.0 billion.
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Sophia Loren, Winner Of More Than 50 Awards
Sophia Loren photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Sophia Loren, OMRI (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress.
In 1962, Loren, among 21 other awards, won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance. Loren has won 50 international awards, including one Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Laurel Award. Her other films include: Houseboat (1958), El Cid (1961), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Marriage Italian-Style (1964), and A Special Day (1977). She has received critical and commercial success in TV movies such as Courage (1986) and in American blockbusters such as Grumpier Old Men (1995), and Nine (2009). In 1994 she starred in Robert Altman’s Ready to Wear, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination the same year. In 1995 she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements.In 2011 she has dubbed one of the characters of Pixar blockbuster Cars2for non-english speaking markets.
In 1999, Loren was listed by the American Film Institute on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars as #21 of 25 American female screen legends of all time. In 2002, she was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) at its annual Anniversary Gala and was inducted into its Italian American Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as “Italy’s Most Awarded Actress”. In 1991, she received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievements.
The same year, the Republic of France awarded her a Distinction of la Légion d’honneur (the Legion of Honor) with the grade of Chevalier (Knight). In 1994, she was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997, Loren was invested Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic). In 2010, she was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Imperial Family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association.
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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock and Roll
Tina Turner with Eric Clapton photographed by Terry O' Neill
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of hits including “River Deep, Mountain High” and the 1971 hit “Proud Mary”. With the publication of her autobiography I, Tina (1986), Turner revealed severe instances of spousal abuse against her by Ike Turner prior to their 1976 split and subsequent 1978 divorce. After virtually disappearing from the music scene for several years following her divorce from Ike Turner, she rebuilt her career, launching a string of hits beginning in 1983 with the single “Let’s Stay Together” and the 1984 release of her fifth solo album Private Dancer.
Her musical career led to film roles, beginning with a prominent role as The Acid Queen in the 1975 film Tommy, and an appearance in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. She starred opposite Mel Gibson as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, and her version of the film’s theme, “We Don’t Need Another Hero”, was a hit single. She appeared in the 1993 film Last Action Hero.
One of the world’s most popular entertainers, Turner has been called the most successful female rock artist and was named “one of the greatest singers of all time” by Rolling Stone. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo music performer in history. She is known for her energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, career longevity, and widespread appeal. In 2008, Turner left semi-retirement to embark on her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. Turner’s tour became one of the highest selling ticketed shows of 2008–2009. Turner was born a Baptist, but converted to Buddhism and credits the spiritual chants with giving her the strength that she needed to get through the rough times. Rolling Stone ranked her at 63 on their 100 greatest artists of all time and considers her the “Queen of Rock and Roll”
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Mark Bolan, Glam Rock Pioneer
Marc Bolan photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known as the founder, frontman, lead singer & guitarist for T. Rex, but also a successful solo artist. His music, as well as his highly original sense of style and extraordinary stage presence, helped create the glam rock era which made him one of the most recognisable stars in British rock music.
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Elvis Presley, The King Of Rock & Roll
Elvis Presley photographed by Terry O' Neill.
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the “King of Rock and Roll” or simply “the King”.
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was one of the originators of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley’s first RCA single, “Heartbreak Hotel”, released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.
Conscripted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He staged few concerts however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. In 1968, after seven years away from the stage, he returned to live performance in a celebrated comeback television special that led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of profitable tours. In 1973 Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii, seen by approximately 1.5 billion viewers. Prescription drug abuse severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at the age of 42.
Presley is regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. He had a versatile voice and unusually wide success encompassing many genres, including country, pop ballads, gospel, and blues. He is the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music. Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame.
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Pete Townshend, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee.
Pete Townshend photograhed by Terry O' Neill.
Peter Dennis Blandford “Pete” Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than 40 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 1960s and 1970s, and, according to Eddie Vedder, “possibly the greatest live band ever.”
Townshend is the primary songwriter for The Who, having written well over 100 songs for the band’s 11 studio albums, including concept albums and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus popular rock and roll radio staples like Who’s Next, and dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations like Odds & Sods. He has also written over 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs. Although known primarily as a guitarist, he also plays other instruments such as keyboards, banjo, accordion, synthesiser, bass guitar and drums, on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists’ recordings. Townshend has never had formal lessons in any of the instruments he plays.
Townshend has also been a contributor and author of newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, as well as collaborating as a lyricist (and composer) for many other musical acts. Townshend was ranked #3 in Dave Marsh’s list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists, #10 in Gibson.com’s list of the top 50 guitarists, and #10 again in Rolling Stone magazine’s updated 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Townshend was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Who in 1990.
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Meeting Terry O’Neill – An Iconic Photographer in London
Recently, I had the absolute honour to interview famous Londoner and iconic photographer Terry O’Neill at his office in Mayfair. He has captured icons of royalty, film, music and politics over the last 50 years; Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Nelson Mandela, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Muhammad Ali – the list is endless! The original, ultimate A-list that make today’s bunch look somewhat insignificant.
Here is a snapshot of my enlightening interview with this wonderful man…
K-S: What does Luxury London mean to you?
TN: Mayfair, St James.
He went on to speak about the village feel and community of the area.
K-S: What feeds your (London) soul?
TN: Jazz. Ronnie Scotts and 606 in Chelsea – that’s what keeps me going.
The Beatles – Backyard, 1963 ©Terry O’Neill.
As I sat with him, his soft cockney lilt was one you’d never tire of listening to, as he imparted his knowledge/wisdom about life, fame and his art of photography. I thought that we the viewing public must have only scratched the surface to his archives and the untold stories that he could tell… but Terry O’Neill has integrity, I saw it in his eyes – he’s not the kiss and tell kind of guy – a true gent, a true celebrity. I continued…
K-S: How do you feel about Photoshop? I asked with a knowing smile.
TN: Don’t do any of it – don’t even use digital. Old fashion film is the best. It’ll all come back one day. You just have to go to a film premiere they take a picture and say wait a minute – then look at the shot. But you see, every moment you don’t take a picture you’re dead! While they’re looking for that great picture they’ve missed another great picture.
K-S: So what did you used to do back in the day?
TN: I could make people look great. You do or you don’t. It’s a question of lighting, watching them, looking for their angle, that type of thing.
Frank Sinatra – Boardwalk, 1964 ©Terry O’Neill.
K-S: What do you love about London?
With no hesitation he replied.
TN: The people. I can’t explain it, it’s a great town – all the restaurants, the music everything. Everything’s great, here and New York – best towns in the world.
K-S: What don’t you like about London?
TN: People who use mobile phones on the bus.
Audrey Hepburn – St. Tropez, 1967 ©Terry O’Neill.
K-S: You use the buses?!
The raised pitch in my voice gave away my surprise.
TN: Yes! I travel by bus every day. I know every bus route. Where are you going now?
K-S: We need to get to South Ken(sington)
TN: Ok, walk up to Park Lane and take the 414, stops right by South Kensington station.
Wow! And we did just that.
Faye Dunaway – 1977 ©Terry O’Neill.
Terry O’Neill represents all that is London; opportunity, creativity, truth, openness, glamour and a down to earth quality even with all its history and magnificence.
It was an interview filled with laughter, I could have chilled out with Terry and his team all day. He made us feel at home and ever so welcome. Which is the perfect note to end on.
Karma-Style with the incredible Terry O’Neill
Remember to make yourself at home here at Luxury London – you are always welcome.
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The greatest! From a sultry Angelina Jolie to a triumphant Muhammad Ali… ten of the most iconic photo portraits of all time
From one of the greatest sports pictures of all-time to a pre-fame image of the world’s most famous actress, TERRY O’NEILL chooses his favourites pictures
1. MUHAMMAD ALI
by NEIL LEIFER
At this time everyone was looking for the punch connecting and the gum shields flying. But Neil Leifer always pushed the envelope
At this time everyone was looking for the punch connecting and the gum shields flying. But Neil Leifer always pushed the envelope
Leifer was a Sports Illustrated staffer in the Sixties and his shot of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston who he’s just KO’d in 1965 is one of the all-time great sports pictures. At this time everyone was looking for the punch connecting and the gum shields flying. But Neil always pushed the envelope. Ali is like a young lion who’s crowned himself king of the jungle, and that’s what the ring is – a jungle. I photographed Ali a few years later in 1974, a little past his prime, in Dublin. He was in his training camp and very depressed. They had to fly his mother over to placate him. He just wasn’t the same man any more.
2. MARILYN MONROE
by BERT STERN
Everyone was fixated on Marilyn Monroe’s bosom but Bert Stern made a thing of her back. It’s coy and it’s very clever
Everyone was fixated on Marilyn Monroe’s bosom but Bert Stern made a thing of her back. It’s coy and it’s very clever
Stern had three sessions with Marilyn Monroe for Vogue in June 1962, six weeks before her death, and it became known as The Last Sitting. Everyone was fixated on her bosom but he made a thing of her back. It’s coy and it’s very clever. He recreated the pictures in 2008 for The New Yorker with Lindsay Lohan. She’s no Marilyn but what I found odd was a guy paying tribute to himself. So many people want to copy or recreate famous pictures these days. Rankin did it with my shot of Faye Dunaway by her pool after the Oscars. I had to be nice but it wasn’t all that. He had a dozen assistants running around and I’d shot it on my own at the crack of dawn. You can’t go back.
3. TERENCE STAMP
by TERENCE DONOVAN
This wonderful, brooding image of Terence Stamp from 1967 was taken on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. He was one of the great actors of that era
This wonderful, brooding image of Terence Stamp from 1967 was taken on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. He was one of the great actors of that era
Terry is a good-looking fella, and this wonderful, brooding image of him from 1967 was taken on the set of Far From The Madding Crowd. He was one of the great actors of that era. He and Jean Shrimpton were the two faces of the Sixties and I was lucky enough to shoot them together; that image remains one of my best sellers. Terence Donovan was a great guy. We got on well and it was a shock when he killed himself in 1996. I couldn’t believe it when I heard. Terry, David Bailey and I were all from East London, as was Terry Stamp. We were kids from poor backgrounds. We had a chance to do something, and we grabbed it.
4. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
by ANONYMOUS
Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of, if not the, most beautiful women who ever walked God’s Earth, and this publicity still – taken by an unknown photographer – has real class and would grace any cover today
Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of, if not the, most beautiful women who ever walked God’s Earth, and this publicity still – taken by an unknown photographer – has real class and would grace any cover today
I grew up with Forties and Fifties Hollywood publicity shots like this. They seemed so cheesy then but now, looking back, they have a charm of their own. Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of, if not the, most beautiful women who ever walked God’s Earth, and this publicity still – taken by an unknown photographer – has real class and would grace any cover today. I knew Elizabeth well (she hated being called Liz) and the reason I love this shot is because, deep down, behind the movie star there was a very ordinary girl who was quite shy really. I remember once at a Hollywood party I had to go and find her. She was hiding because the room was full of stars like Robert De Niro and Tom Cruise and she was afraid to meet them. I had to escort her into the room and hold her hand and introduce her around to break the ice.
5. ANGELINA JOLIE
by GEORGE HOLZ
Nobody had heard of Angelina Jolie then – it was 1998 and she was a minor TV actress, but everything about her screamed ‘Star!’
Nobody had heard of Angelina Jolie then – it was 1998 and she was a minor TV actress, but everything about her screamed ‘Star!’
The first time I saw this picture by U.S. celebrity photographer George Holz I knew the young woman in it was going to be huge. Nobody had heard of Angelina Jolie then – it was 1998 and she was a minor TV actress, but everything about her screamed ‘Star!’ This is from the pre-digital age and it proves that all the computer tricks and tools the stars and their agents use today to manipulate their image can’t hold a candle to a someone who knows how to use a camera and film.
6. AUDREY HEPBURN
by TERRY O’NEILL
Audrey Hepburn was always photographed as the iconic, stylish beauty – but she had such an impish sense of humour and she could get really frisky
Audrey Hepburn was always photographed as the iconic, stylish beauty – but she had such an impish sense of humour and she could get really frisky
You couldn’t miss with Hepburn. In fact, I can’t recall seeing many bad shots of her at all. She was always photographed as the iconic, stylish beauty – but she had such an impish sense of humour and she could get really frisky. I was lucky to be there when she was in a particularly mischievous mood in St Tropez, in 1967. Funnily enough she hated water but had to be in the pool for a take on the set of Two For The Road. When I see an actress described as the ‘new Audrey Hepburn’ I laugh. There’ll never be another.
7. AMERICAN MARINE
by W EUGENE SMITH
This portrait of a battle-weary American Marine fighting his way across the Pacific during WWII always moves me. You can see how a handsome young man has become toughened and grizzled by war
This portrait of a battle-weary American Marine fighting his way across the Pacific during WWII always moves me. You can see how a handsome young man has become toughened and grizzled by war
W Eugene Smith is one of my all time favourite photographers. He was obsessive about detail and had a reputation of being very testy, but this portrait of a battle-weary American Marine fighting his way across the Pacific during WWII always moves me. You can see how a handsome young man has become toughened and grizzled by war. I never took pictures in a war so I can only imagine how tough it must be to be a war photographer – I know Smith was wounded doing his job – but I can also see how much of a privilege it must be.
8. CHURCHILL
by KARSH
This has everything you expect in a Churchill photograph: the authority, the bulldog expression. Everything but the cigar, because Karsh took it off him, which made Churchill scowl even more
This has everything you expect in a Churchill photograph: the authority, the bulldog expression. Everything but the cigar, because Karsh took it off him, which made Churchill scowl even more
This was the first photographic portrait I ever saw and it set me on my way. Shot by Canadian photographer Karsh in Ottawa in 1941, this is a classic; a powerful image that’s like a grand old painting. Karsh was a great technician – he even lit the hands separately – and this has everything you expect in a Churchill photograph: the authority, the bulldog expression. Everything but the cigar, because Karsh took it off him, which made Churchill scowl even more. I wouldn’t have had the courage to do that. Churchill was impressed by the result saying, ‘You could make a roaring lion stand still’. I met Karsh years later in London and I told him this was one of my favourites portraits, but he was very humble about it.
9. ANTHONY BLUNT
by LORD SNOWDON
Anthony Blunt was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures then but was later revealed to be one of the most infamous spies ever. This captures a certain steeliness in him
Anthony Blunt was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures then but was later revealed to be one of the most infamous spies ever. This captures a certain steeliness in him
A technically brilliant shot of Anthony Blunt with a Picasso transparency ‘projected’ onto his face. Blunt was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures then but was later revealed to be one of the most infamous spies ever. This captures a certain steeliness in him. Tony is a truly great photographer. He once said, ‘I don’t like photographs displayed in the house. I don’t consider them art.’ But I don’t think he believes it and I think he should have more exhibitions to remind people how good he is. Everyone remembers his privileged background but I had a conversation with him about it once and he said all everyone thought was: ‘Princess Margaret’s husband’. It did him less of a favour than you might imagine.
10. AFGHAN GIRL
by STEVE MCCURRY
It’s a truly great image. I recall being mesmerised by it when I first saw it. The eyes just burn out of the page at you. It’s known as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’
It’s a truly great image. I recall being mesmerised by it when I first saw it. The eyes just burn out of the page at you. It’s known as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’
American photo journalist Steve McCurry is a very talented guy and his portrait of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl, Sharbat Gula, became the cover of a 1985 copy of National Geographic. It’s a truly great image. I recall being mesmerised by it when I first saw it. The eyes just burn out of the page at you. It’s known as ‘the Afghan Mona Lisa’ and it demonstrates the power of an image to create its own story. McCurry went back to find her almost 20 years later, and eventually tracked her down in a little village
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