“People would say, ‘He took a trip and now he’s weird.’ He wasn’t weird at all”: Mick Rock’s “surprisingly simple” friendship with Syd Barrett, and other psychedelic adventures

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Mick Rock earned the epithet ‘the man who shot the 70s’ through his work as photographer for David Bowie, Queen, Lou Reed and others. In 2014 – seven years before his death – he recalled how his career had begun with the first generation of prog artists in the 60s.

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