Kevin Cummins
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I took these photos 42 years ago today -6 January 1979. Walk in Silence.
#JoyDivision
#Manchester
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On this day in 1979 - 6 January - I photographed Ian Curtis in Hulme for an NME cover. I also shot Joy Division on Epping Walk Bridge in the snow.
@joydivision
#JoyDivision
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It’s 41 years
#otd
that I shot
@joydivision
in the snow ...
#JoyDivision
#IanCurtis
#Hulme
on 6 January 1979
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This Charming Man. RIP Andy. My heartfelt condolences to all family and friends x
#AndyRourke
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On this day in 1979 - 6 January - I photographed Joy Division on the Epping Walk Bridge in Hulme, Manchester for an NME cover feature.
@joydivision
#JoyDivision
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On this day 45 years ago - 6 January 1979 - I photographed Ian Curtis in Hulme, Manchester for
#NME
#JoyDivision
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This was the first Oasis photo I shot for the
@NME
- we flew to Amsterdam - the band travelled overnight on the ferry. When I got there only Noel was there - the rest of them had been deported for fighting with Chelsea fans
#timstwitterlisteningparty
@BoneheadsPage
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I needed a cover shot. I was aware that a solo shot of the singer is stronger than a band shot. I had 6 frames left so I got Ian next to a lamp post at the foot of the bridge. The others were trying to make him laugh. I told him to zone out
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
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This fucking piece of Murdoch shit is Britain’s best selling paper. Would every single fuckwit who buys it, please get professional help. And would every piece of shit who works on it explain to me how you live with yourself. The starburst with 596 dead is particularly repugnant
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I’ve no idea who made this Anti-racism graphic, but it’s pretty powerful
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A photo I took of
#TerryHall
at United in '85 for NME. He thought it'd be amusing to do the session at OT. So I took him in the Scoreboard End, set the shot up, and just before I took a photo, told him he was standing exactly where I stood when we relegated them in '74
#ManCity
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What a horribly bitter piece. HMV Tower Records & Virgin were all staffed by people who loved music (in my experience). I learned about US Punk at Virgin in Manchester & about Jazz at Tower on Piccadilly. And memo to sneering writer: Fopp is owned by HMV
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Eventually I got the shot I wanted
#TimsListeningParty
#JoyDivision
#Closer
@peterhook
@stephenpdmorris
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A photo I took of David Bowie the day after his 50th birthday gig in the Village
#NYC
@DavidBowieReal
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The morning after the TJ's gig, I was waiting in the hotel lobby, finally Liam turned up & said 'hello'. I looked up, saw the sign above his head & told him not to move and grabbed my camera and took this pic, which was the cover shot for our NME piece
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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One racist doesn’t represent any single one of us
#ManCity
fans. Gary Neville is right. A racist prime minister gives racists a mandate to publicly air their prejudice. I love my club & I despise scum like this who attach themselves to us. Fuck off back to your hole in the ground
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When I was in Manchester last week to shoot
@BlossomsBand
for
@ManCity
@pumafootball
, I took a photo of the view from the bridge to match my shot of it during the
#JoyDivision
shoot in 1979. It's fair to say: Manchester has changed
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Some people really are fucking tedious pricks. I’m a photographer. It’s actually my job. When I photograph people I like, & a lot of you like, I like to share those photos, & stories around the shoots. If you don’t like it, then fuck off & stop posting criticism on my socials
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I took a photo of the bridge in 2010 - it still screams
@joydivision
without them on it
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
#UnknownPleasures
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A photo I took backstage of Andy Rourke with Mani at Manchester versus Cancer in 2007 at the MEN Arena
#AndyRourke
#Mani
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On 18.05.80, Ian Curtis died at home in Macclesfield.
"Never again will I weep
And wring my hands
And beat my head against the wall
Because
Me nolentem fata trahunt
But
When I have had enough
I will arise
And go unto my Father
And I will say to Him:
Father, I have had enough"
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It would have been
#IanCurtis
’s 64th birthday today - ‘Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone’ - photos ©️Kevin Cummins
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Then we went to Hulme. The idea was to have them looking south over the bridge - aspirational - looking to London for fame & fortune etc. But when I got them in position & was walking down to roadside it just looked perfect
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
#UnknownPleasures
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Let’s not forget: record stores were like drop in centres. Nobody rushed you out. You could stay for ages, listening to music & talking about music to staff & customers alike. Discovering something new thanks to knowledgable staff was an absolute thrill ...
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According to British Transport Police in London, it's illegal to wear this T shirt. So this is where to buy them ...
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In Dec 78 Paul Morley convinced NME that we should do a piece about emerging Manc bands. We did The Passage, Spherical Objects &
#JoyDivision
. My editor didn't think any of them warranted a cover. I'd shot the other two, then I shot JD on 6 Jan 79
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Lovely to see
@Johnny_Marr
and
@gillian_gilbert
and lots of other old friends, at the British Pop Archive launch tonight, at the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Photo ©️Kevin Cummins
#NewOrder
#JohnnyMarr
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Here's a photo I took of Warsaw
#JoyDivision
at their first ever gig on 29 May 1977 at The Electric Circus. This is copied from the NME. I have no prints and the negatives went missing years ago.
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A brilliant ‘fuck you’ to the premier league by the south stand
#ManCity
“Pannick on the Streets of London”
@WeAre1894
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The hotel barman realised this was out of his remit so he called last orders. Noel was at the bar. There were 26 of us. "I'll have 6 double gin & tonics. He'll have 6 points of Guinness and 6 whisky chasers, he'll have 6 ... " The barman decided to stay
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Ian Curtis: 15 07 56 – 18 05 80
"When you're standing on the crossroads that you cannot comprehend
Just remember that death is not the end
And all your dreams have vanished and you don't know what's up the bend
Just remember that death is not the end" Bob Dylan
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Lovely to see my first surprise visitor to my
#JoyDivision
show: Neil Tennant, who happily left later with a signed book.
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Fanta cans and Coke cans everywhere. All filled with piss, because the lazy fuckers couldn't be bothered walking down a flight of stairs to the toilet.
#JoyDivision
#Closer
#TimsListeningParty
@peterhook
@stephenpdmorris
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This is probably the most popular pic from the Maine Rd session. We just wandered into the ground, nobody seemed bothered, it was pre-season. Needless to say Liam wanted to be photographed on the pitch but we talked him out of it
@BoneheadsPage
#timstwitterlisteningparty
#ManCity
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That was exhausting. Hope you all enjoyed it. You all owe me a pint 😂🤣 next time I'm in your neighbourhood - which won't be for some time I suspect ...
#timstwitterlisteningparty
@BoneheadsPage
- here's a photo from July 94 outside the Pev in Manchester
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Here's a photo I took last year of Kling Klang Studios - the birthplace of
#Kraftwerk
in Dusseldorf. A sad day today indeed ...
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A huge loss to the city and the football world. RIP Bobby and Franny: you both made Manchester great. Next week we play Utd at OT, where can pay our respects to both players.
#BobbyCharlton
#FrancisLee
#ManCity
#ManUnited
. I took this photo at Colin Bell's Testimonial at Maine Rd
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Congratulations to Liverpool who join Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City with their first
@premierleague
title.
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Definitely a favourite shot. For camera fans, I'd just bought a 20mm lens & was determined to use it at every opportunity. The MacFisheries bag was to catch water from a leak. Health & Safety wasn't top of TJ Davidson's list.
#TimsListeningParty
@peterhook
#closer
#JoyDivision
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I think I did quite well seeing as it was freezing cold, I was running out of film, they were constantly dicking around as well as moaning about the cold etc
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
#UnknownPleasures
I thought these were stronger than the bridge pic at the time
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Absolutely heartbroken to hear the devasting news about Colin Bell. He gave generations of us
#ManCity
fans so much pleasure. One of football's all time greats and The King of Maine Road. My deepest condolencies to all family & friends and to everyone at the club
#RIP
#ColinBell
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Awfullly sad news about Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers -
@StranglersSite
- brilliant and hugely influential keyboard player. Here's a photo I took in the dressing room at the Electric Circus in Manchester on 5 June 1977 ...
#RIP
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The following month we did a range of photos around London for Creation just to get them used to being photographed. Liam was exhausting ... he kept jumping on the back of buses and I was having to chase after him
#timstwitterlisteningparty
@BoneheadsPage
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Here's a photo I took of Bernard in the rehearsal room playing bass
#JoyDivision
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
#Closer
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and finally: a photo I really wanted to use in my forthcoming Britpop book: While We Were Getting High (pub Sept), but I just couldn't make it work ...
#Oasis
@liamgallagher
@BoneheadsPage
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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I got them to walk around a bit - I didn't really want a traditional rock pic. I wanted it to be really urban and bleak - this is a favourite from this part of the session ...
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
#UnknownPleasures
@joydivision
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On this day in 1977 - 25 December🎄 - I photographed the Sex Pistols at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
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Thanks everyone. Here's a bonus photo from Futurama at the Queen's Hall in Leeds - the world's First Science Fiction Festival, no less - Sept 79.
#JoyDivision
#Closer40
#TimsListeningParty
@peterhook
@stephenpdmorris
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I’ve just had an early copy of my Britpop book, and it looks great. Really happy with it.
@Octopus_Books
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This will always be your city - Sergio Aguero mural, off Dale St, Manchester
#ManCity
#StreetArt
#GOAT
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Rishi Sunak: The richest man in the commons - that’s richer than all other Tory MPs - telling everyone to retrain if their job no longer exists - thanks in large part to his party’s gross negligence - is the finest ‘fuck you’ from these shithouses, since Thatcher.
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A photo I took of a Smiths fan by the cemetery gates - at Southern Cemetery, Manchester.
#Morrissey
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@Tim_Burgess
@mikejoycedrums
@StreetStephen
#TheQueenisDead
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Tomorrow, 6 January, is the 40th anniversary of my
@joydivision
photo session in the snow. I've written a piece about it for tomorrow's
@ManCity
v
@OfficialRUFC
matchday magazine & how Rotherham United unwittingly played a part in my shooting it
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Tom Verlaine: you were such an inspiration for so many people. Peace and Love 💙
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30 years ago today - 4 August 1991 - I was in Dublin to photograph David Bowie for an
#NME
cover feature. It was the first time I’d ever met him, and I was so nervous, I had to use a tripod to stop the camera from shaking.
@DavidBowieReal
#OTD
#Bowie
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Coldplay? ... COLDPLAY? ... 🤷🏻♂️if only Liverpool had a music scene ...
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I can now exclusively reveal the cover for my forthcoming book: While We Were Getting High: Britpop & the ‘90s - published by
@Octopus_Books
. It'll be available to buy from 24 September - from all good book shops, and online retailers too.
@liamgallagher
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We went into Chinatown in Manc get a New York vibe as
#Oasis
were about to play there. Then we could use these pics. The
@BoneheadsPage
pic was fine but what I didn't notice was a Manc orange & white bus at the end of the road on the rest of the shots
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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On this day in 1977 - 30 June - I photographed a band called Warsaw, who were opening for Generation X at Rafters in Manchester
#JoyDivision
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Moving tribute re Andy from Morrissey
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It’s a good job photographers exist, to photograph our idols. So how about crediting us for our sterling work, instead of constantly filling your socials with our uncredited photos
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Thanks for all your support. Most enjoyable - generally. I had a bloke tell me how he would have made the portrait of Ian a better shot, & someone who told me that I'd taken my 2010 bridge shot from the wrong side (it was taken to the west)
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
@peterhook
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When we got back to Pompey hotel, the pool was next to the bar. Liam chucked all thefurniture in the pool. 'You daft bastard, where are we going to sit. Get it out.' he had to fish it all out so as we could sit down and have a drink -crowd shot at gig
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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The
#ManCity
photos were really popular. I'd done a session a couple of months earlier with them wearing City shirts / playing football. Needless to say it was a matter of seconds before it kicked off in more ways than one
@BoneheadsPage
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Here's a photo I took of Jean Alexander / Hilda Ogden for Salford City Art Galleries in 1987
@itvcorrie
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They’re Tories. They despise the working classes and they despise immigrants. They have nothing but contempt for most of the population of this country. They laugh openly at the working classes who vote for them. Why does anyone expect them to do anything but lie. They’re scum
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We met at the Mitre Hotel near the Cathedral. The idea was to do some gothic type pics around there then move on.
@stephenpdmorris
said if they all shook their heads really fast, they'd be blurred & anonymous. He did it, see prev pic - the others didn't
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Finally: my Fall book is out tomorrow. Available in all good bookstores and online at all the usual outlets.
#TheFall
#MarkESmith
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This is England: Raheem Sterling, a former Liverpool player gets booed for every game for club and country for several seasons and the press don’t give a toss. An average Liverpool defender gets booed and it’s the crime of the century ... just fuck off, the lot of you
#ManCity
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On this day in 1983 - 7 Sept - I photographed The Smiths for their first NME cover feature. The features editor had a last minute change of heart and put Big Country on instead. He told me: “The Smiths will never be big enough for an NME cover.” 😂
#TheSmiths
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