Pop book number one [antikvár]

"Words are not something that I feel should necessarily accompany my photographs, because I think they speak for themselves. But it seems people do want to know things about the situations surrounding the sessions and stuff about me. I think this is all unnecessary - but then, I was there, so I was born in Coventry, an industrial city in the middle of England on the seventh of March 1967, had a normal childhood, lovely parents, good friends, average schooling. I started taking photographs at fourteen, which along with music, soon replaced football as my obsession. I studied photography at College for a while, all the time going to more gigs, taking more photographs whilst having less interest in College. I ended up leaving and somehow got a job as a lithographic printer, a skill I took to London in 1988, a place with even more gigs. All my spare time was used photographing these shows and doing sessions for fanzines. This all led to my first commission for Sounds magazine in 1990. I'll never forget that night at The Fulham Greyhound. The Screaming Trees marked a change in my life, not only the start of my career but the introduction to a type of music I haven't stopped listening to. One of the first sessions I did for Sounds was Soundgarden. I saw them play at The Marquee and later photographed them in Hyde Park - this one just one of the shows I've seen that have been unbelievable, and just some of the people I have met who have been fascinating. My life became faster and faster, I saw and met more and more great bands then Bang! Sounds was closing down. I had just stayed up all night printing them some pictures from a German festival. I wasn't happy. That very day, my good friend Everett True rescued me from the edge of a bridge and asked me to join him at Melody Maker. Then my life became twice as fast, I met twice as many bands and now, four years later, present this, the first Pop Book." Steve Gullick, November 1995