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Mick Rock at SHK Launch

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 03:37:52 +0000

There was certainly lots to see, hear and know at the launch party for SHK Magazine including Mick Rock. Please follow click on the links below for pics and photos.

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Mick Rock Video Interview

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 03:27:18 +0000

Check out the interview and photos with Mick courtesy of Spazziogerra

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MICK on Swedish TV: “The photographer who photographed rock stars”

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:49:28 +0000

David Bowie, Lou Reed, Madonna, Mick Jagger – the list of all rock and pop artists who stood in front of the photographer Mick Rocks cam is long. You will now see his pictures in Stockholm.

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Blood & Glitter

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:14:25 +0000

With a foreword by David Bowie, here is a seminal collection of images of the glam rock era taken by legendary photographer Mick Rock. Includes outstanding photos of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, and a host of other characters that defined the movement.

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Psychedelic Renegades

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:12:20 +0000

Psychedelic Renegades covers the period 1969-71 and features the photo session with Mick Rock in and around Syd Barrett’s London flat which culminated in the cover for his first solo album The Madcap Laughs, and a further session at Syd’s family home in Cambridge. Not only does this exquisite book reproduce in the highest quality, for which Genesis is renowned, some of the most famous images of Syd Barrett, there is also a wealth of images which have never before been published. Many have not even been previously printed up from the original historic negatives.

‘Images and eye-witness accounts of a golden age which will never return.’ La RepubblicaMick shared a personal friendship with Syd which began in the mid-Sixties when they met in Cambridge and flourished when they both lived in London, where at one point they shared a flat. One of Syd’s closest friends, the artist Duggie Fields, writes frankly and with humour about his friendship with Syd. In his perceptive text he describes life in the Earl’s Court apartment which he shared with Syd and where the Madcap shots were taken in Syd’s famous bedroom with the striped floorboards.’We were psychedelic renegades exploring an inner landscape where everything was turned upside down. We had penetrated the looking glass and were living in a parallel dimension where everyone was beautiful and spiritually free.’ Mick Rock

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Killer Queen

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:10:30 +0000

Genesis is proud to announce the official limited edition book crafted to celebrate the enduring success of one of the world’s greatest rock bands. Presenting the photographs of Mick Rock, original text by Brian May, Mary Austin and Mick Rock and featuring quotes of the period from Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.

New Beats: ’This exquisitely produced photo book … containing outtakes, test Polaroids, and other previously seen snapshots that might even surprise die-hard fans who thought they’d seen everything.’

Queen were the rarest of breeds: both genius in the studio and utterly brilliant performing live. A potent, magical mixture that has won them fans the world over. Such is their success, Queen form part of collectors’ so-called ‘Mighty Three’. Along with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, no other bands’ recordings and memorabilia are so highly sought after.

It is therefore fitting that Genesis follow their acclaimed Beatles and Rolling Stones titles with a limited edition tribute to a band captured in Mick Rock’s lens at the explosive moment between obscurity and world domination.Uncut: ’Rock’s pictures of Queen’s breakthrough gig at Imperial College in 1973 are just some of the rare and unseen images collected in Killer Queen…’

Brian May: ’Looking back, it is obvious that Mick was a master of his art very early on. His pictures speak louder than words. The images in this book stand up fresh and untarnished by time.’

Killer Queen is a limited edition book of only 2,500 numbered copies worldwide signed by Brian May and Mick Rock.

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Moonage Daydream

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:09:03 +0000

MOONAGE DAYDREAM: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ZIGGY STARDUST is a collaboration between David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock.

Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of theZiggy Stardust LP’s original release, MOONAGE DAYDREAM is David Bowie’s first ever book and the ultimate authorised piece of Ziggy Stardust legend. David Bowie’s sharp, often humorous text discusses the origins of this fascinating stage persona, comments on Mick Rock’s photographs, and overall gives unprecedented insight into Ziggy’s stratospheric two-year career.

“The last word on the subject of Ziggy Stardust… few books are this lovingly produced… Genesis Publications, the leading practitioners of craftsmen-produced coffee-table extravaganzas.” GQ, June 2003

“Simply beautiful” Elle (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), April 2003

“You’re a fool to miss out” Mojo, April 2003

“Another limited edition masterpiece from England’s Genesis Publications… [which] features a 15,000-word text by Bowie, who’s hardly ever gone on record, certainly not at such length and with so much detail, about Ziggy and the glam era.” The Washington Post

“An extravagant coffee-table book that collects Mick Rock’s photographs of the chameleon rock star as Ziggy Stardust … there is more than enough for both the casual Bowie fan and the obsessive.” The Observer, January 2003″The closest we’ll ever get to a straight-up Bowie autobiography – but who’d ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?” Rolling Stone, September 2012

“This is a book of extraordinary photographs. Ziggy Stardust blazed briefly but intensely, and I am delighted to see his life and times as a rock’n'roll star immortalised in this beautiful limited edition.” David Bowie

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Tamashii: Mick Rock Meets Kanzaburo

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:10:50 +0000

Softcover, 4to, illustrated, 95 numberd pages, text in English/Japanese.

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Rocky Horror

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:30:59 +0000

“I could snap whatever caught my eye, stirred my imagination”, states Mick Rock about the time he spent with the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”. As the “special photographer” on the set he was right in the middle of the action. This book contains 272 pages of the most beautiful pictures – most of them never published before – from the entire film production, featuring images from the set as well as backstage photos of the actors and the director. Mick Rock’s fabulous pictures show Tim Curry aka Frank N. Furter jumping into the swimming pool during a shooting break, Richard O’Brien being transformed into Riff Raff, and how the illustrious society celebrates the creation of “Rocky” the love monster. These and many other pictures by Mick Rock have been compiled for the first time in this magnificent tome, complemented by the photographer’s reminiscences of this time, and ennobled by Richard O’Brien’s foreword. This high quality photo book is a unique film document as well as a splendid collector’s item for everyone who is crazy about the story of mad scientist Frank N.Furter. The original play opened in 1973 on the experimental stage “Theatre Upstairs” at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and the same year it was elected “Best Musical of 1973″. In 1974, the shooting of the film began with most of the actors from the original cast, along with other great young actors such as Susan Sarandon and Tim Curry. The film premiered in 1975. And now – finally, thirty years later – this large-format illustrated book with its luxurious, stylish design – perfectly fitting to the film – has been released.

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Debbie Harry and Blondie: Picture This

admin — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:28:28 +0000

Blondie were the most successful rock act to emerge from New York’s seminal and anarchic downtown punk scene of the mid-1970s. Their beautiful, multi-talented lead singer, Debbie Harry, became the most photogenic and photographed rock performer of all time. Mick Rock lived and lensed cutting-edge culture like no other in the 1970s, and their collaboration yielded iconic photos that transcended and transformed the public perception of rock’n'roll imagery. This book explores in depth, both visually and verbally, the unique natural charm and charisma of Debbie’s “punk Marilyn Monroe” persona in its prime, and her successful reinvention of that persona for Blondie’s glorious comeback of recent years. Mick Rock provides a vivid, memorable account of his larger-than-life adventures behind the camera; revealing, like no other book, just what made Debbie Harry and Blondie so distinctive.

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