LET THERE BE ROCK :: THE MICK ROCK INTERVIEW

Mick Rock is a legendary music photographer often dubbed "The man who shot the seventies". He's worked extensively with Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel and Andy Warhol.
I had the chance to site down with Mick at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood to discuss his career.
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[@angusgibbins4954]

Devastated to hear about Mick's passing. RIP.

[@JorgeLetria]

If I could like this video 100 times, I would. High art is great and all... but the rock and fashion photographers from the 60s/70s are just on another level for me. How fortunate can you be, to spend your youth photographing these people. I wish Brian Duffy were still alive for you to interview him... But hey, Annie Leibovitz is still around! ;) Come on Ted!

[@DarwinSmith1950]

I am really glad you didn't edit down the video. You captured Mick Rocks' personality. You kept it real. Bravo!

[@marvalstith2749]

Could anyone of such great exposure/talent be more candid, more generous more appreciative in conveying positive assessment of the folks he was privileged to know and serve? Fabulous time spent here!

[@majopgalli]

wow!! this was great!! such a treat to be able to get to all his first hand rock legends relationship stories appreciation !! thanks for not editing cause it was cool to see even the rythm of his chatting!! and so authentic !!

[@johnwilliamsoblomovforever]

Great interview Ted, I've loved Mick Rock's work, knowingly, and unknowingly, for a lot of my life.

[@PhotoSummers]

Thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks Ted!

[@MaxLamdin]

Ted this was a brilliant and incredibly interesting interview, being so off the cuff and relaxed is a really good way to do it

[@DanielMores]

Apart from the "ooh I did drugs and got to hang out with famous people" what I liked about this interview is how he explains how he got into it. The way he found his style and how he used what was available at the time. And the respect he has for people. Great video!

[@andygoldblatt]

Great job Ted. The perfect balance of insightful questions and letting an amazing character riff. Photography and prog rock - definitely your sweet spot.

[@inptn5204]

That was class. Well done and thank you Ted! Looking forward to the John Free video.

[@Bbarm97]

this channel is the main reason I use youtube. learned so much from you Ted. Thanks for everything!

[@Artie111UK]

Great interview Ted. Thank you.

[@fredsbloggs656]

This is such a breath of fresh air after all the photographic lens this and DSLR that....... mucho utube wallpaper, then all of sudden this video. Everything that I lived through in that era, the hope of new a future, the music, the sense of change, the charisma, the originality and talent. It was without a doubt my epoch!..........and somehow it all faded.............and feel of change faded. This interview with the appropriately named Mick Rock shows us the most interesting thing about the world, "rock stars" the catching of the moments and sharing them complete with their stories of madness and excess. You did well to bring us that!

[@kennethhouston4838]

Excellent video Ted. Thank you for keeping it in its original unedited form. I learned quite a bit about the person and their art.

[@BrianAndersonPhotography]

What a fantastic interview. Another great episode :)

[@vincemasuka7382]

One of the best interviews i've ever watched. I was laughing my ass off while learning things xD Thank you for not editing pieces out ! This is amazing !!

[@RicardoRMedina]

Brilliant interview! I could not get enough after listening to this guy talk! Thanks Ted!!!

[@markthomas366]

Wow. Great interview. Thank very much!

[@SkeeterNYC]

Great interview. Much thanks!

[@mudkicker27]

I wouldn't imagine to watch a Mick Rock interview on this channel. I'm stoked! Fair play to you Ted. I hope you enjoyed this experience.

[@LuisGGomezPhoto]

Great interview! Thanks for sharing.

[@hennessytrump4934]

Ted. Such a great interview. Wonderful!! Well done.

[@satejonetsu]

Thanks Ted, for everything that you do. Fans from all art truly appreciate what you do!

[@stephenryde78]

That was Fan-f**king-tastic Ted. Reminded me of the Beware of Mr. Baker movie interview. I got the same feeling watching that. What an inspirational show!!! Pure Reality!!! Loved it Thank You

[@nidges5001]

One of my heroes, thanks Ted. Think I've watched this 20 times.

[@johnkraemer5505]

Wow! What a great interview! I would love to see a follow up (extended) interview with Mick. I would enjoy watching & listening to him prepare for a shoot, discuss a bunch of individual photos he took over the years (the stories would be great), and have him talk about what he does day in day out. Mick Rock is a very interesting character!

[@charliehenbury3959]

I haven't heard of this photographer until now. Thank you Ted!

[@cymballine1]

Thanks Mick for backing me up on a lot of what I've been saying about Syd and David for decades! I miss them both!

[@TimLowe]

What a charming interview. I'm envious.

[@lewismalpas8577]

Really enjoyed the interview, great work (as always). Wasn't aware of Mick Rocks work before either so great to learn about a photographer behind some seriously cool and iconic images... If your ever in London it would be ace to do a meet up!

[@francochamps3855]

bloody marvellous. Nice job, Ted.

[@chegusta]

I started shooting a few months ago and found your channel pretty soon. love the content and your historical and intellectual approach to photography. Keep up the good work. All the best from Vienna, Austria!

[@matt904sl]

Awsome interveiw and what a honest guy i could of listend to him for hours 👍👍👍👍

[@PossumPityParty]

This is freakin awesome! Thank you for doing it. :) ❤️

[@RobCastro]

Good stuff. Thanks for doing this interview, Ted.

[@pegbag12]

A great interview. Mick Rock was honest, unashamed and refreshing in this "it wasn't me, I didn't do that" disclaimer era. He tells it how it was in those days.......I miss 'em!!

[@Dw-images]

A true message to young photographers out there.. Read and respect the rule book then just rip it up and do your own thing... Great interview Ted more like that please sir..

[@Demitrival]

What books?

[@dmitrynikonov8447]

Great interview Ted! A refreshing departure from the usual (shall we say, a bit more temperate) style of your episodes. Keep up the good work!

[@markholtkamp1895]

I absolutely love this interview!

[@ButchCosimoto]

Truly great and entertaining interview Ted, looking forward to the John Free one.

[@domsawyer8953]

OMG he's just so easy to listen to. What a charmer! RIP Mick.

[@barbaramcintosh4360]

Fabulous & entertaining, Mick is THE rock photographer!! One of a kind, like Bowie & Freddie Mercury!! Sad that he has left us.

[@justinevirtue1755]

Holy cow! Interview of a lifetime! Congratulations. Nothing offensive for me since I'm 'of that age.' Yes, we were rebels and system busters. There was an innocence and a sense of honor that is not apparent today. Hijacked.

[@PatrickDodds1]

Fab interview - thanks for this!

[@jenfox]

Great interview and comparison to Eddie and Jimi. Yes, I agree! I am a music fan and love the 70's music and photos too :) thank you again 🌼 this was amazing ✌ new subscriber here 😊

[@stekks]

Thanks Ted!

[@jonnyboy8000]

Excellent interview

[@alandargie2038]

I've just discovered your Channel - love it!

[@BigMeatSunday]

really interesting interview, thanks for sharing

[@Axatron8001]

What a great Interview!

[@chancerenard]

Ted this is the best AoP video ever!

[@evelasq1]

Loved the interview, met David Bowie before years ago as well as Iggy one time. It is true about rock music, it is about people's personality and how it shines like a light house. Peace, Flood!

[@Amyjo_lovesmusic]

Great interview!

[@IainHC1]

Well Mr Forbes!!! You've excelled yourself this time!!! (Kept in the context of the video) 'What a fuc*in AWESOME interview!!!! :-) BRILLIANT!!!!!! 'Fkn' love it :-)

[@andrewfrost8866]

Awesome Ted!

[@kkchome]

brilliant interview. classic.

[@julesnoelsmith]

great interview, mick rocks

[@enriquevp77]

Although I've always loved those early 70's musicians photographs, I didn't know anything about Mick Rock until recently, which means that I wasn't aware that must of those photos of Bowie, Joan Jett, Blondie, were all taken by the same man, and I really appreciate the intention to focus the interview on photography more than to limit the talk to a recap of memories.

[@widam]

Great interview

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

What an incredible, superb photographer Mick Rock was. Sad to hear he just died. Was lucky to have met him some years back at an albums covers exhibition. He was friendly and chatty. R.I.P MICK ROCK

[@holgerheuermann]

Great interview! Norman Seeff is another photographer, "who shot the [musicians of the] seventies", however mostly in a studio environment. He also videotaped many of these studio sessions, being especially interested in creativity itself and the individual artists' personal attitude to creativity and her or his creative process.

[@Lysander-Spooner]

Ted Forbes Awesome interview!

[@mcol3]

Lots of discussion about acids, surely developer and fixer, right? Rodinal?

[@cactustweeter2890]

Great video.

[@mandrakedas]

Great interview with an icon of the times

[@AuthenticSound]

Congrats with this interview, Ted, it's not at all obvious to get in the position to do this! I'd like to do a similar interview with Philip Newell, a kind of counterpart to Mick Rock, but on the side of the technique and sound capturing. Philip is a great guy as well, lived in the same time, and listening to Mick, I hear -in a different voice :-) - Philip talking. They must have had a really great time back then...!

[@PurosOipunx]

Really wish these videos did the numbers they deserve.

[@outtathyme5679]

Those Syd pics are amazing

[@reikikurama]

Excellent!

[@DarkAngelEU]

You had a chat with THE Mick Rock? This guy is my fucking hero, Psychedelic Renegades was the first photobook I ever bought :D I'd share a spliff with him without a doubt, cheers for filming this tho. I'd just be making giggles haha

[@angus10538]

New for me, and great, great, great!

[@LexArias]

Excellent!!!

[@ms.cynthia5055]

I wish he'd said more about Freddie Mercury & Queen.

[@davidselby8115]

Terrific memory for Mick Rock and Rock n roll

[@googo151]

Mick is like Robert Smith meets Paul Stanley. LOL! What a great character and person. A true legend.

[@inspectortrout99]

Good stuff! Don't forget to mic yourself! Otherwise, really, really great!!!!

[@MitzyGale]

Bring on the four letter words, tales of debauchery and the rock n roll life stye!! Yeah!

[@leslieadkins6276]

The stories are always interesting, but I would of liked to see more of the work. The late Linda McCartney has some nice rock and roll black and white photography also.

[@JenniferM13]

Awesome!!!

[@jamesurzykowski4918]

Great interview with a legend in his field. You should have used a microphone on yourself, your questions and comment are equally important in the interview. Your love for photography shows in the quality of the shows you produce. Keep up the good work!

[@davidnash8711]

Excellent

[@TheCappedCruiser]

RIP Mick Rock - a seminal figure and a great photographer. It's got me wondering what were his very first commissions: here's my candidate - SAM PARRY / IF SADNESS COULD SING on UK Argo (a Decca subsidiary), from 1972: the photography and design are credited to Mick Rock. Sam was a hippie folk/blues singer/songwriter, and this was his only album, that sold in tiny numbers ... it's now one of those 'holy grail' albums for collectors in the folk/psych area ... I have a near-mint copy, and on the rare occasions a copy comes onto the market, it goes for around the £700-plus mark. Sam's an old friend of mine down here in wild Wales, and I still see him occasionally. Mick's design is completely conventional: a colour shot on the front of Sam sitting in the doorway of an old windmill, and a couple of b/w portrait shots on the back. It's easy to locate online - just google the title. So there we go ... I'm not aware of an earlier Mick Rock LP cover, but maybe someone out there can prove otherwise!

[@nycvideoauditions]

EXCELLENT!!!

[@romemiller1504]

Love It !!!...We're living in the " Dumbed Down - Cancel Culture " era , so its refreshing to see the late , great Mick Rock letting his tongue wag . His work and attitude in life has inspired me !👑🎩🦊✊🐵

[@kristycarp4484]

Your the rock star Ted ;) I bet you have a huge camera

[@jtr200747]

Well - that’s another difference social media brought on: if you are a newcomer like me, you can go back an catch up with early stuff. Thanks mate! I wonder whether its possible to find a interview with Mick, where he actually thanks about the way he shoots his friends and picks the pictures that he finds best?

[@thisismyname9331]

Love you Mick...u naughty naughty man....

[@WhySoSquid]

When I heard of Mick's passing today my first thought was Barrett 💕🙏

[@josephblack123]

I'm pretty sure I got a contact-high from watching that interview. I was scared for you the entire time. But seriously, it was really interesting to get an inside look into the rock and roll world of that period. PS. You need a hat.

[@masterbillla1434]

T.A.O.P. Hey Dude Mick Rock is a Awwsum carector!!!

[@ArekArciszewski]

awesome

[@tonywalton1052]

Ted, could you do a segment on Gregory Crewdson?

[@kennykool100]

I love his tabletop book of portraits of Debbie Harry. ❤

[@Daniel-Duarte]

Sunburn baby!

[@KaidFN]

Have you check out Linda Mcartney's work from the 60's?

[@808SHIRTS]

Let there be ROCK!!

[@samrotolo7303]

@23.45 I think we can all clearly understand now.

[@kunduz6]

:) good one

[@kevinmarquez117]

"Naughty boy in his day but, weren't we all." LMAOOOOO!!!!!