David Bailey’s Rock and Roll Heroes. Bullfinch Press Little, Brown & Co 1997. With the dust jacket. SIGNED by David Bailey on the first free endpaper. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Text by Neil Spencer. 73 duotone and 11 color photographs. Superb collection of rock and roll pioneers, many of them iconic. Terrific large format reproductions. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Beginning with his famous pictures of Mick Jagger in the early 1960s, David Bailey’s photographs have helped create the iconography of modern pop. Now, for the first time, Bailey presents his all time favorite rock and roll images, a stunning gallery of musical heroes spanning four decades. The sixty high-impact images Bailey has selected bring to life the evolution of rock, starting with his remarkable early pictures of the Beatles and the Who and concluding with his takes on U2, Oasis, and other contemporary hit makers. Along the way, Bailey captures an eclectic array of pop icons as we’ve never seen them before including Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Patti Smith, John Lydon, Sting, Seal, and UB40 and jazzes things up with portraits of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire and other older stars. And throughout the book, in twenty six astounding photographs, Bailey chronicles a band he’s been friends with for more than thirty years, the Rolling Stones. For rock fans everywhere. Boards have very light wear. Small abrasion to the spine. Hint of tanning to page edges. The dust jacket has light wear. Several tiny indentations and scratches visible in the light. Tanning to the edges. Few light creases to the edges.
