| International Standard Book Number |
9798895152140 (pbk.)
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| Personal Name |
Pope, Tim, 1956- author.
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| Title Statement |
I shoot rock stars : the wild adventures of a music video director / Tim Pope ; [foreword by Robert Smith].
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| Edition Statement |
First Diversion Books edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[New York, NY] : Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp., 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Foreword / by Robert Smith -- A call from DB -- "Yes, I am filming it" -- The Jelco Kid -- The dog's bollocks -- Too much, too young -- Blah blah blah -- A hell of a year -- Let's go to bed -- The shirt off my back -- A mad night out with The Cure -- Cars, goats, and close calls -- A giant Mediterranean prawn -- Swinging cameras and wardrobes -- Ding-ding! All aboard the crazy train! -- Talking talk talk -- Gary the Bongo Man at Broken Arrow -- An epileptic rat in Harlem -- Hanging with heroes -- The spider's mouth -- And then came tin machine -- Never work with martians, squirrels or... Mecca -- Iggy's "Cock Moment" -- "What's up with the world, Sir?" -- A murder of crows -- I got the pearblossom blues -- Lou who? -- Clean living, early nights and prayer -- Look up here, I'm in Heaven -- A trip to Berlin -- Where are we now? -- Epilogue: "A funny little arsehole".
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Tim Pope was there from the beginning, before music videos became slick corporate products, when anything felt possible. I Shoot Rock Stars is his music-obsessive-turned-guerrilla-filmmaker's wild ride inside the birth of the pop video -- smuggled cameras, blown budgets, and no idea too strange to try. After breaking through with Soft Cell, Pope found himself at the center of a creative explosion, feeding the insatiable new machine called MTV, directing the artists and moments that defined a generation: dressing Freddie Mercury as a giant prawn; being called a "funny little arsehole" by David Bowie; hanging out with Neil Young on his ranch; and locking members of the Cure in a wardrobe and launching it off a cliff. Written with wit and unfiltered honesty, I Shoot Rock Stars is a riotous memoir of a time when image became inseparable from music." -- Page [4] of cover.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Pope, Tim, 1956-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Rock musicians History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Music trade Great Britain Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Music videos Production and direction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Smith, Robert, 1959- writer of foreword.
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