London calling

Pennie Smith, photographer,

“I still have this old-fashioned mentality where I can’t conform, and I think they were very much like that. Despite Joe’s upbringing as a nice middle-class boy, they were revolutionaries in their heads.”

Uncut 2004

And she should know :

She made one of the most famous photographs in the history of rock 'n' roll - the cover image for London Calling by The Clash.

“I think they decided I was the photographer for them because I could do in pictures what they made in noise."