Mill Valley, Calif., ca. 1984: Look at the face — it just tells so many stories. I do remember that the day before I was supposed to go up there, I got a call from Bruce Springsteen’s art director, who wanted me to shoot his album cover on the same day, but I had already committed to the John Lee Hooker thing. During the two or three hours that I was at his home, I can remember always thinking, "What an amazing face." You always know when you’re in the presence of a living legend.
London, 1985: That’s at the height of the ‘Born in the USA’ tour. During the intermission of the concert, I clamped a remote-controlled Nikon onto a railing at stage right, pre-focused it, dropped the long shutter release cable underneath the stage and waited for Bruce to hit his mark during ‘Hungry Heart.’ This shot says "Bruce for the masses" to me. I mean, this was July 4, 1985, right before he went back to America to play stadiums. We were in London, on the biggest American holiday, he’s tearing into ‘Born in the USA,’ and it was kind of … chilling, you know?