thank you. those were magical days and we were all so young and cherie was SO promising. paris was lovely as always. i am back home now and that’s lovely too!
One day in the summer of ‘77, I drove out to Cherie Currie’s home and she showed me her tattoo.
I was alone with Cherie Currie in her bedroom back in 1977. We were both teenagers. Thank god that I brought my camera with me. Check out the story and photos in the new issue of OYSTER magazine!!
An at home photo session with Cherie Curie, the grandmother, Aunt Evie and twin Marie Curie. This was like twenty pages in Music Life in Japan back in 1977!
Where are you Cherie? We need to catch up! xoxo, brad
The seems to be this insatiable demand for more photos of The Runaways. This was my first photo session with The Runaways. I dragged the band to the old Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. The tourists did not have a clue, Kim Fowley stayed home and the German and Japanese magazines published the photos.
Back in the 70’s my best clients were two Japanese magazine, Music Life and Rock Show. They bought cart loads of my photos which paid for my very first car, a used Mercedes. The Japanese were nuts about The Runaways so they just had to publish this Cherie bowling photograph. Today both of these great magazines are long gone due to the internet. The big pay days in photos are gone too and you would be lucky to buy a bicycle in today’s environment!
When I was just out of my teens, I was the correspondent for POP magazine in Switzerland. Their logo was this famous strawberry and all of the bands loved the magazine and the cool publisher Jurg. I became their correspondent because I was sending them photos of all the cool bands and I got on a plane to Zurich to meet the editor. No other photographer actually made that effort and that’s what it took back then. They sent me boxes of their cool POP t shirts and asked it I would photograph the bands wearing them. Cherie and Marie Currie were on their radar so I went out to the valley and they slipped them on. I may have one of these shirts in my storage locker!
