He snapped Madonna before she was even famous thanks to an introduction from Boy George.
And Tina Turner loves his photographs so much she’s got personal copies on top of her grand piano at home.
British photographer Dave Hogan has even achieved the seemingly impossible – making feuding siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher smile, side my side, for the camera…
Over the course of a 40-year career which has seen him travel the world with rock gods and Hollywood greats, Hogan has become almost as famous to the stars he photographs, as they are to the rest of us.
From Sir Paul McCartney to The Rolling Stones, and the Spice Girls to Beyonce, there are few showbiz legends he hasn’t captured on film – and who don’t ask for him when they want a special moment immortalised.
Now a snapshot of his twinkling portfolio is to go on show in a new exhibition, Hogie’s Heroes, at London’s The Trafalgar St James from Thursday.
A number of iconic prints have also been signed by the icons themselves, and will be available to buy via an online auction from February 18th, with all proceeds going to charity.
Here, he recalls the stories behind some of his most memorable shots.
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MADONNA, 1985: Hogie was in New York photographing Boy George, who gave him a tip-off about an up-and-coming pop star.
“He took me to this club and said ‘You need to photograph this woman. She’s going to be big.’
When Boy George said this you listened. Madonna had confidence, even at that age. You knew she was going to be a star.”
Boy George trusted him as long as he told him before he took a photograph. “Once I took a picture when he wasn’t wearing make-up and he hit me with a yellow frilly umbrella,” he laughs.
Hogie continues to work with Madonna to this day, even though she once ran over his foot in her car.
“She was returning from the Berlin Film Festival when she was with Sean Penn,” he says. “I didn’t sue.”
(Image: Dave Hogan)
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