Anton Corbijn

So yeah, not great.

Nobody.

And then a few days later, because I called in every day, I was asked to take some shots of Bill Haley, live shots.

So it was really thrown back to the beginning of everything, you know.

And I felt I had already reached some status in Holland, but I had to start from the bottom.

He played in the marquee in Water Street.

So, you know, it was a stamp size picture in the MME.

But then a photographer called Il, who was supposed to shoot Joe Jackson for a story.

So the week after, I was asked to do the last minute to go to see Joe Jackson and photograph him for an article.

And that was great because these pictures worked well and Joe liked them.

And Joe asked me to do a picture for him and the NME.

And so three months later, I already did covers for the NME.

Very fast.

Also for the NME.

It was kind of the last job I did for the NME.

Yeah, they wanted to change direction.

I think they were also fed up with, I was dictating a lot, you know, I would not give them 10 pictures, I would give them three pictures.

One for the cover, two for inside.

Yeah, I think that Neil Spencer thought at some point that I was going a bit far.

I mean, sometimes I gave them more pictures, but