All photos taken Knebworth Festival August 11, 1979 (my birthday)
Loaned the negs to a fan at the time which I never got back. You're
naive and stupid when you're young. So as you can see...I don't
have much left.
 After shooting the other acts all day, Zeppelin decided we had
to shoot them from about half a mile away. I think this was the
band's paranoia. Just before they came onstage, Chalkie Davis (photographer)
and I bumped into BP Fallon (Zepp's PR man) who was completely out
of his head on speed. We said rather sarcastically, "How about
getting them to do a line-up shot before they go on?" and he
was like "Oh yeah, great. Not a problem." So we were walked
into the inner sanctum and a very friendly Zeppelin lined up for
us for about 10 minutes. The only problem was that my flash gun
wasn't set properly and all I ended up with them was from the waist
down. The top half of the photo blacked out....without a doubt,
the greatest fuck-up of my photographic career. We were told we
couldn't shoot live, so after listening to the set from underneath
the stage for half an hour, we decided to climb the scaffolding.
It took forever. We ended up on a video ramp. A big American came
over and screamed "What are you doing? You can't come up here!"
We told him Peter Grant had said it was okay and he let us get on
with it. And we shot the last hour of the show from there.
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