Michael Putland photographed everyone in the seventies: The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, John Lennon, Led Zep, Clapton, Marc Bolan, and many many others.

Michael Putland didn’t have a day off in the seventies. At least that’s how it seemed to him at the time. And looking back, there’s just no other way he could have assembled a photographic archive of such immense breadth and depth. His A to Z would wrap around a small village. Michael started photographing musicians in the late sixties. He really hit his stride in the seventies and by the mid-eighties he had captured pretty much everyone of significance in the music business over the course of a twenty year career.

Mick Jagger, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, 1978
Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger drinking coffee
Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger live 1973
Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger triptych
Rolling Stones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones, Keith Richards triptych
Rolling Stones, Mick with microphone
Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, tied shirt
Rolling Stones, Keith Richards smoking
Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards

Michael’s new book

The Music I Saw

Signed copies in stock