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“MAGAZINES were beginning to show interest in the ‘pop star at home’ type of feature. The general response from the band was, ‘No way, I don’t want some strange photographer coming into my place!’ But in that process it came up that why didn’t I shoot a set of pictures of each of them] thought the at-home set-up was particularly in keeping with the image of the band that he had been promoting, but he recognised that the band were achieving a certain level of fame and this was part of the media bargain that had to be fulfilled one way or the other.

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