What is the best photo you have ever seen of your favourite band or artist? The chances are that it’s very likely to have been the work of Danny Clifford, one of the world’s leading rock photographers. Now music fans are getting the chance to hear to the stories behind some of his most iconic images - from touring the world with Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd to spending weeks accompanying Pete Doherty and girlfriend Kate Moss and life in the studio with Freddie Mercury and Queen. Danny Clifford (Picture: Lyn Clifford) Next weekend Danny will be bringing Rock Stars Don’t Smile to the intimate surroundings of Barnoldswick Music and Arts Centre for the first time.
“It’s been a real slow evolution to get to this point,” said Danny who started photographing bands in and around London when he was barely in his teens. “In the past I’ve been reluctant to put my head above the parapet. My life has been spent doing what I do and every time I would be asked by a TV company to appear on a documentary about a band I’d always turn it down.
” The seeds for the one-man show - the name comes from an altercation with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher during a visit to a children’s hospital - were sewn when Danny was persuaded to stage an exhibition of his work in London in 2018. On display were images of a who’s who of the music scene over the past 50 years from Frank Sinatra to Amy Winehouse and from Status Quo to Beyonce. Amy WInehouse (Picture: Danny Clifford.
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