ROXANNE SHANTE I took this picture in ‘85 I think, it was a promo shoot for her single, ‘Have A Nice Day Asshole’ and amazingly we found the badge [Pictured in another shot] in a store near where we were shooting. Roxanne was a lot of fun, she had a great sense of humour and really interacted well with all the props. She picked up the Penthouse magazine and had fun pulling faces and reacting. She must have been really young in this photo, definitely a teenager. I saw her a few years ago when Wall of Sound brought her out of retirement to do a feature and she was working as a nurse.
RUN DMC These pictures were taken at the same show in Philadelphia that I shot LL Cool J. This was around the time ‘My Adidas’ had come out and Run DMC had just started to become big news. Before this they were doing campus tours to rooms of like 60 people, so this was their first big tour and you could tell they felt they’d arrived. NME sent me and Stuart out there for four days mainly to cover them but we were two days into the trip with no Run DMC pictures. After the show, Stuart managed to grab them for an interview and I saw an opportunity to take some quick shots. The show was in this huge arena that must have been used for ice hockey or basketball for the rest of the year, so the backstage area was actually a locker room. At the end of the interview, Darryl (DMC) went into the toilet stall and I got this great shot of his hat sticking out the top and his Adidas feet sticking out of the bottom, then Jay jumped in and started having some fun. In the end, Run jumped in and we got this locker-room group shot.