Anton Corbijn

Elephant Man picture.

Yeah.

It's kind of Jesus vibe to it.

Yeah, I think it was a beautiful moment to photograph him then.

It's really nice that there is a religious kind of vibe to it because that cuts through a lot of other things.

It's not a rock photograph.

I already hated the description of my work as rock photography.

Rock photography determines that there's somebody on the photograph that's a musician.

But it doesn't relate at all to what you do with the photograph or how the photograph is taken.

So I always felt I'm a photographer, a portrait photographer, but not a rock photographer.

Oh, it was great.

He was great.

I mean, the whole story is that I knew the enemy were doing this interview, but I was in agreement that they would not get permission to photograph him.

So they only were sending a journalist over.

And I knew the journalist, and I said, can I come with you?

My parents had just given me a cooker, money for a cooker, because I lived in a squad.

And I used that money to buy a ticket to Chicago, where this thing was taking place.

And I turned up with the journalist,

His PR lady said, what are you doing here?

Because we agreed no photographers.