Anton Corbijn

I know I did a picture of the simple minds of Jim Kerr against the skylight in Newcastle for the cover.

And he only saw a silhouette because I liked that.

So it doesn't matter who's on the picture.

It's a fucking Anton Corbin photograph.

That's what he said.

Oh, wow.

In hindsight, he was not wrong.

It was a little, I wouldn't say arrogant, but it was maybe, maybe it was arrogant, yeah.

Possibly all that stuff.

And I was worried that something was going to be published that I wasn't 100% behind and I wanted only the best.

And I was incredibly ambitious in those years.

On the Wednesday morning, we'd get sounds, a melody maker, NME, put them all next to each other.

And usually I did the cover of the NME.

And, you know, I really wanted that to be the best of the three.

And generally it was, because also the NME had better layout, I think.

I don't know.

I mean, I don't have a trick or anything.

I do think that I don't look like a danger to anybody.

I don't look like I have bad intentions.

I'm slightly shy.