“i don’t only shoot famous people, but it’s fun working with cranky old rock stars”

“It’s Noel on his own because the rest of them weren’t there. I was taken over to Amsterdam to meet them and we flew over on the Friday morning with a PR. We got to the hotel and I said, ‘Where are th

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