THE BEATLES “LET IT BE”
“….In the decades between college and this walk I had become a photographer too, and often for the Rolling Stones. As we meandered, Gered matter-of-factly mentioned to me that I was the only photographer to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who.
That this was true–and that somehow I hadn’t put it together myself — came as a shock to me. But it was that unlikely. Even knowing it to be the case it was still hard to imagine. But how could anyone have imagined it? You couldn’t have planned it, willed it, or schemed it. Even to have dreamed it would have been borderline absurd. I was a boy from California. I didn’t know anyone in England. At the time I first took pictures of Mick Jagger I wasn’t really even a photographer. Yet, by the time I was walking down the street with Gered, I had shot the Let It Be cover for the Beatles, been on the roof with them for their last performance, at Altamont with The Rolling Stones, taken the cover for Who’s Next and directed the last video with John Lennon the week before he was murdered….”(From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY )
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