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Dolores Roberts, my mother, the model
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My parents, Dolores and Bud, the Marine, on a date
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The blue house on Hillcrest Street
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On holiday in the Pocono Mountains
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A family snap when Dad was stationed in Florida
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My dad gives a lift
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Dressing up with Patty, whose necklace I stole
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Terry (far left) with neighborhood kids. That’s Timmy Porter in the center.
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Dee Hynde, a secretary
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Christmas with the Hyndes
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Our new house on Stabler Road in the snow
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All dressed up and ready for church
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Sewing. A little homemaker in the making…
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Terry wailing under his painting of a drum kit
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Me and Dianne. Still innocent. (But not for long…)
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Nita Lee, class of ’69
Chris Hynde, class of ’69
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My mother posing proudly in front of the Clockwork Orange house (looking rather Clockwork Orange herself)
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Me in Dianne’s bedroom on Waldorf Drive. Wearing one of the first in a long line of bad self-haircuts.
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Jackie Wilson. My first kiss.
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Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels. Life changers.
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Kent State band the James Gang
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Jeff Beck is coming to town!
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. That’s Buzzy Feiten on the right.
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Iggy Pop, platinum blond lunatic circa ’73
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The Poor Girls: Chons, Debbie, Esta and Sue
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Becky Keene, aka Meg Keene, who wrote ‘Hymn to Her’
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Dianne as the bass player in Nervus Rex
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15-60-75, aka the Numbers Band. That’s Terry, third from right.
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Star-eyed Stella with strategically placed Iggy Pop sticker
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Some “get-down boys” at KSU
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Posing as a hard-ass for a student photographer in a KSU paper
Glen Buxton, Alice Cooper’s Akron-bred guitar player
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Me, age fifteen, with Zim Gar guitar, Stones and Dylan
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Posing on the roof of the NME offices on Long Acre in London
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Nick Kent makes himself at home under my collage of heroes at Englewood Road
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Sabrina and Sasha with Kalu in Paris
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Sabrina, star of the Alcazar
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Singer Marie France, Paris
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Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McClaren
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Early Sex Pistols gig. That’s me in the corner.
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Sid in hospital with hepatitis, snapped by yours truly
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Steve Jones carrying me over the threshold of decency. Paul’s seen it all before.
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Scabies, Brian James, me on my knees, the Captain, guitar whizz-kid Patrice in the background and Joey Ramone far right
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With Marc Zermati, Open Market and Skydog Records entrepreneur
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Rehearsing for Steve Strange’s band the Moors Murderers
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Lemmy
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With Chris Spedding at a Pistols’ gig in London, Jordan in background
Don Letts and Andy Czezowski in the doorway of the Roxy
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Backstage with the David Johansen band. On the sofa (left to right): Martin Chambers, Frankie LaRocka, Mick Jones, me and David.
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Finally, here we are. The Pretenders onstage at Barbarella’s.
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Onstage in London, early 1979
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Flight case with every band’s dream: our own stencil
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James Honeyman-Scott plays guitar
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Pete on the tour bus
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Dave Hill, Pete and Mart while filming the video for “Kid” at a fairground
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Jimmy Scott proudly displays his guitars
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Me and Hoover, Scotty in the middle. Here comes trouble.
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Jimmy and Mart, Primrose Hill
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Me and Ray. Always laughing.
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1984