Favourite People

In 1977, Debbie Harry and her “Blondie” band mates stopped over in San Francisco on the way back from touring in Japan. They were photographed in Golden Gate Park before a club gig.

Jack Nicholson

Bob Dylan

Thelonious Monk in 1959.

Jayne Mansfield laying on a bed in a black leotard with her hair loose. She was an American actress who was known for her striking good looks. She was nicknamed the “Working Man’s Monroe.” Mansfield is also known for being one of the first Playboy Playmates of the Year. 

Frank Sinatra heading to the Cal-Neva Lodge on board his private plane.

Miles Davis and Andy Warhol.

Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters performed his opus The Wall at the Rogers Center in Toronto.

Igor Vidyashev

Marilyn Monroe at her house in Hollywood Hills

Baron Wolman photographed The Rolling Stones in December 1969 at the Oakland Auditorium Arena, later filmed for the documentary Gimme Shelter.

Note Keith Richards at the bottom left. “For me that’s always shown the relationship between Mick and Keith from Mick’s point of view,” Wolman says.With reports of high album sales and high ticket prices in the weeks leading up to the event, The Stones were catching bad press including accusations of being greedy.

To appease fans, they decided to throw a free concert in Golden Gate Park. That venue didn’t work out, so the concert was moved to Sears Point Raceway. However Filmways owned the track which was a problem because concert organizers intended to film a documentary, which became Gimme Shelter.

At the last minute permits fell through and they moved the site to Oakland Auditorium Arena. Grateful Dead had convinced the organizers to hire the Hell’s Angels to provide security. When a fight broke out, The Rolling Stones had to stop halfway through “Sympathy for the Devil” and start over.

It was lucky that they were shooting a documentary. Halfway through the show an enraged fan charged at the Hell’s Angels brandishing a revolver. He was stabbed to death and beaten by Hell’s Angels. His autopsy later showed traces of methamphetamine. Footage from the film led to the Angels’ acquittal in self-defense.

Baron Wolman

John Coltrane during the recording of the "A Love Supreme" album.

Miles Davis liked to work out every day. Photographer Baron Wolman did not. Davis used to joke with him at photo shoots. “Barry, man, you’re out of shape,” Miles Davis said in his husky voice. “You gotta come to the gym and work off that flab with me.” Davis said that he liked to box because it helped with his anger.

Here in October 1969 he brought Wolman to Gleason’s Gym in the Bronx.“If you listen to my music you’ll hear me boxing,” Miles told Wolman during their workout. “I play the trumpet the way I box. You can hear me uppercut and jab through out the song.”

"I was assigned to do a cover shoot with Michael for life Magazine at Disney World in Orlando. The Epcot Center was coded to the public so he could have privacy. The Disney people treated Michael as if he was Mickey Mouse reincarnated.

I set up the lights and waited. His manage, Frank DiLeo told me Michael was out doing his door-to-door work as a Jehovah’s Witness. He was more than two hours late. How could Michael not think about all the people who’d traveled to Florida with their families for what might be their only vacation of the year and had to wait for the park to reopen?

Portrait of Al Pacino.

Oakland Coliseum in 1977, there was a 2 1/2-hour delay because of the arrest of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham for fighting with a security guard.