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Swinging London, Dead Boys, We’re With Them, Monochrome Set, Jen Cloher

"Dispatch rider by day, rock photographer by night”, scooter boy alec Byrne spent 10 frantic years at the epicentre of the London scene, hanging out with hendrix and Jagger backstage at Top Of

The Pops, shooting by the catwalk at a t.Rex show and at many other key soirées around town between 1966 and 1976. his images aren’t that familiar, though, since he emigrated to california in the mid-’70s and put his photographs into storage. after 40 years, a studio fire, a flood and an earthquake, these potent images have returned to circulation via London Rock: The Unseen Archive. it’s available now, from Virgin Books, for £50.

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London Rock: The Unseen Archive by Alec Byrne is out now (Virgin Books, £50)