Bibliography

If writing is thinking on paper then Mick thinks on film, and our rock ‘n’ roll collective is better for his thoughts.
-Andrew Loog Oldham

A Photographic Record 1969-1980 (foreword by Lou Reed) (Century 22 Books, 1995)

Glam!: An Eyewitness Account (foreword by David Bowie) (Omnibus Books, 2006)

Psychedelic Renegades / Syd Barrett (Genesis Publications, 2002)

Moonage Daydream / Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust (with David Bowie)

Rock ‘n’ Roll Eye (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2003)

Killer Queen (with Brian May and Roger Taylor) (Genesis Publications, 2003)

Picture This / Debbie Harry & Blondie (foreword by Debbie Harry) (Omnibus Books, 2004)

Raw Power / Iggy & The Stooges (foreword by Iggy Pop) (Omnibus Books, 2005)

Blood & Glitter (foreword by David Bowie) (VisionOn Publishing GB, 2001)

Rocky Horror (foreword by Richard O’Brien) (Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2006)

Classic Queen (Sterling Press, 2007)

Tamashii: Mick Rock Meets Kanzaburo (Kabuki Theatre Photos) (Hachette Fujingaho, Japan, 2007)

Ziggy Stardust / Bowie 1972-1973 (St. Martins Press, 1984)

Psychedelic Renegades (Gingko Press, 2007)

Mick Rock EXPOSED (Hardcover, Chronicle Books, 2010)

EXPOSED (Softcover, Palazzo Editions, 2014)Transformer (with Lou Reed), (Genesis Publications 2013)The Rise of David Bowie 1972-1973’ (with David Bowie), (Taschen Books, 2015)

For my sins in a former life, I’ve been forced to spend an inordinate amount of time with musicians in this life. Of course, I love them.

A camera is a wonderful ally. It requires minimal maintenance and provides entry to a world of endless imagery.

My ambition was not to be a great photographer (though that certainly would have been a worthy stance). It was a lust to embrace anything that startled or energized me.

I am not in the business of documenting or revealing personalities. I am in the business of freezing shadows and bottling auras.

Without the rock ‘n rollers, I would not have developed as an image man.

You want to shock people with a bit of mystery and beauty. That’s my favorite kind of shocking.

I’ve never felt like a voyeur, although I’ve certainly done plenty of looking!

There’s an art to looking back - how to celebrate the past without being entrapped by it. Photographs provide the great physical link.

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn’t owned by a magazine or a record label.

I smell pictures more than I see them and I hear pictures more than I can smell them. It’s very habit forming.