Mick Rock

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

"My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn’t owned by a magazine or a record company." - Mick Rock

“I grew up loving and listening to all kinds of music from Bach to Puccini to Reggae to Jazz. I have always been energized by it and sometimes a single piece of music can encapsulate an era in which you lived. I certainly never lived in New York during the 1960’s and 1970’s as I was growing up in London, but through Lou Reed I can certainly imagine what it might have been like. Likewise a single image can evoke the same feeling. I was offered this print signed by both the photographer and the subject and had to have it to help me understand that era. One must never stop learning about things you know nothing about and this image helped me undertake that process.” – Peter Fetterman