Very sad news overnight of the loss of a rock icon in every sense, and a pivotal contributor to the Bowie phenomenon in particular.
Quite poetic that he passed at 72, echoing the year that everything took off for him.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mick-rock-dead-obit-1259988/
Sad news. Rest in peace.
Mick Rock actually took a picture of me once. Well, he was aiming at David Bowie in the foreground, but he managed to squeeze me in the background. It was in Croydon in 1973.
Anyway, Mick was a bit of a legend and very sorry to see him go.
Great piece by Sean O’Hagan.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/21/pop-is-now-too-controlled-to-allow-a-maverick-like-mick-rock-to-flourish