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CONTENTS TERRY O’NEILL Earls Court London May 23, 1975 pages 8–59 Tampa Stadium Tampa, Florida June 3, 1977 pages 60–77 Madison Square Garden New York June 7, 1977 pages 78–105
MICHAEL BRENNAN Olympia Stadium Detroit, Michigan January 31, 1975 pages 106–149
BARON WOLMAN Alameda County Coliseum Oakland, California July 23, 1977 pages 150–183 July 24, 1977 pages 184–187 —
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© Benjamin McMahon
most iconic photographs of rock ‘n’ roll. But when it came to Led Zeppelin, O’Neill took to the stage. “In the mid-1970s, there wasn’t a bigger band than Led Zeppelin. I was asked to take photos of the band performing, which was an unusual assignment for me. I usually worked in studios – or some sort of controlled environment – but I did the occasional live performance. I took snaps of Bowie on-stage in Los Angeles a few years prior to working with Led Zeppelin and worked with Elton John on-stage at Dodger Stadium, so I knew the basic rules: work fast and stay out of the way! “They were great on-stage. The noise from the audience was as deafening as [Jimmy] Page’s guitar. They worked so hard, always on tour – and as you can probably tell just by looking at the photos, they really did give their all when they were in front of a live audience.”
When Terry O’Neill started to take photographs in the early 1960s, one of his first assignments was to go down to Abbey Road Studios to take photos of a new, young band. That band turned out to be The Beatles and his photos appeared in the papers the following day. “I started at the top and I never looked back”, remembers Terry. Following The Beatles, O’Neill went on to photograph the faces that defined the 1960s. From The Rolling Stones to Michael Caine, Terence Stamp to Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot, and Sean Connery; O’Neill’s images graced magazines, newspapers, album covers and movie posters, vaulting the photographer into becoming one of the most in-demand of his time. As the 1970s rolled around, O’Neill turned his attention to the new stars emerging. He was one of the first to take photos of Elton John, and his collaboration with David Bowie would yield one of the —
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Middle Row, Frame 9a-10: The May 23 Earls Court performance of ‘No Quarter’ featured Jimmy Page using a blue Fender Stratocaster guitar as opposed to the usual Gibson Les Paul
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Fashion note: Another distinction of the May 23 show was Robert Plant’s choice of clothing. For this Earls Court performance only, Robert reverted to wearing the cherry-emblazoned wrap-around top he had worn during the 1975 US tour —
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