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FOUR DECADES OF ROCK 'N' ROLL THROUGH THE EYES OF GERED MANKOWITZ

Portraits by Gered MankowitzGuy White2022-07-27T15:58:14+01:00

Marianne Faithfull

“Taken during my early sessions with Marianne at Decca recording studios and at the Salisbury Pub respectively, in 1964, soon after the release of As Tears Go By.”

– Gered Mankowitz

Recording Studio

Salisbury Pub

Marianne Contact Sheet

The Jam

Modern World album cover session

Modern World alternate

Modern World Contact Sheet

Modern World colour alternate

The Yardbirds

“Shot just outside my Ormond Yard studio, this portrait of the band features two of Britain’s greatest guitarists; Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. I was very pleased to have captured the bowler hatted city type as he passed by in the background!”

– Gered Mankowitz

“Bowler Hat” – Ormond Yard London 1965

Small Faces

Plonk

Mesh curtain

Françoise Hardy

Francoise

Eric Clapton

“This was taken at a TV special that Eric participated in and is the only time I have actually photographed him in spite of subsequently shooting two covers for him.”

– Gered Mankowitz

Supersession – London 1969

Suzi Quatro

“This is from the first of many sessions I did with Suzi and was the image that launched her career.”

– Gered Mankowitz

Portrait – London 1973

Robert Palmer and Elkie Brooks

Studio session

Oasis

“The band had just exploded onto the scene and a magazine wanted me to shoot a cover with them. I thought they sounded like a Stones/Beatles tribute band and suggested a pastiche of my famous ‘Stones Between The Buttons’ cover.”

– Gered Mankowitz

Storm Clouds – Primrose Hill, 1994

ABC

Lexicon Of Love – London 1982

Paul McCartney

**“I never worked with The Beatles back in the day but knew Paul quite well and I took these portraits at a recording session he was sitting in on.”**

– Gered Mankowitz

Decca Studios London, 1966

George Harrison

Cloud Nine sessions

Sparks

Sparks

Generation X

Mirror

Eurythmics

“I started working with Annie & Dave when they had ‘The Tourists’ and this cover image for ‘Revenge’ was the last shoot I did with them, although Dave insisted on using a terrible painting that was based on my photo!”

– Gered Mankowitz

Revenge – Paris 1986

Kim Wilde

Portrait