Showbusiness
Bal Tabarin 1967, Last Night. Was one of Paris’ most famous nightclubs and when it closed in the early sixties many of the stars of the day attended the final show.
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Beatles at launch of Yellow Submarine
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Contortionist at Home. Contortionist Diana Gaye can tuck herself into almost any nook or cranny. Such as the trunk of a sports car or even a suitcase. At home she gives her mother a hand - and a foot - with the housework. Photographed 1971.
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Flea Circus. Britain’s oldest flea circus had been around for twenty years when I photographed it in 1974. Owned by ‘Professor’ Leslie Tomlin of Manchester it involved only human fleas which, by the mid 1970’s were in short supply. Fleas were attached by glue to a shackle for their entire fourteen-day life spans. The custom of ‘training’ fleas was thought to have originated in prisons.
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George Lazenby 007
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Half of Sixpence Filming at Eastbourne 1968.
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Lawrence Harvey and Rupert Davies Go Fishing It was a miserably wet, cold, dismal winter’s day in the early sixties. Rupert Davies and Lawrence Harvey were staring in a stage play in Brighton and a Fleet Street magazine wanted a shot of them doing ‘something different’. “We could go fishing,” suggested Rupert Davies. “You could write a caption about how Maigret (one of televisions most famous and enduring detective creations) made a catch!” “Suppose we don’t catch anything,” objected Lawrence Harvey. “We’ll bring a fish with us,” said Davies. A fishing rod and line were borrowed from a seafront store and a fisherman hired to row us a distance off show in his fishing boat. The shots taken, I turned to the old salt to take us back to the beach. He was lying flat out in the bottom of the boat, drunk and a skunk and clearly incapable of rowing us anywhere. At this point we were caught in current had began to get carried further and further from the shore. “Leave it to me,” said Rupert Davies. Seizing the oars he rowed ups swiftly and efficiently back to dry land. Over a drink he told me that, during the war, he had been shot down in the Channel and spent several hours adrift in a rubber life raft before beingrescued. Unfortunately by the German.
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Mark Lester – Star of Oliver. Mark began his film career at the age of six and was nine-years-old when I photographed in 1968, after he had been cast in the title role of the film version of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! The multiple Academy Award-winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, co-starred Jack Wild, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Oliver Reed, and was directed by Sir Carol Reed.
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Nigel Hopkins – Trumpet Playing Prodigy
A superbly gifted young musician, Nigel was 14 when I photographed him at his family home outside Southampton and later on stage during a summer season in Ramsgate.
He had a number of hits including, in 1968 when these photographs were taken, High on a Hill a trumpet solo written especially for him by Alan Moorhouse. You can listen to High on the Hill on Youtube.
Nigel is now a respected songwriter and producer with his own label - Crazy Lighthouse (www.thecrazylighthouse.co.uk ) – who has written music for film and television.
‘The Journey’ an album he wrote and produced for Jet Harris, is available on CD from Amazon or can be downloaded from itunes.
Nigel is currently (November 2010) writing and producing his own ‘Cool Jazz’ album which will be available in April 2010 on Crazy Lighthouse Records.
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Old Tyme Musica Hall
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Filming of Thunderbirds.
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