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Whilst not yet the household names they would become, I figured most fans knew what the band looked like so no need to have typical head shots, we could afford to be a bit more creative. This led to a photo session for each member of the band. At that time, getting all the band together for a photo shoot was not as easy as it sounded – they were mad busy, gigging, doing promotions, recording – it never seemed to end. You’ve also got to bear in mind that unlike today when images can be created and then published online in a matter of minutes, the manufacturing and promotional process took weeks if not months, meaning we were working at least six weeks up front of release to deliver artwork. In 1995 from the end of January to the end of March they were in the States on tour, from March to June they were recording the Morning Glory album & having some rare time off and in the Summer they were doing festivals and travelling all around Europe and Japan. We had to shoot them wherever and whenever we could. I wasn’t yet living in London, so had to travel down for the Morning Glory sleeve test sessions and final shoot. We found we could grab Liam and Alan White while I was staying at the Copthorne Tara Hotel for the test session. The ‘Liam Eye’ shot that was used not only on the sleeve interior, but promotional posters for the album, was taken while I photographed him staring into the old-fashioned looking bellows camera seen below. Liam was photographed in the morning, which didn’t stop him from enjoying a pint – which can be seen by his feet! We shot Alan through a mirror to give the ‘double’ effect. So that was two down, three to go – Noel, Guigs and Bonehead would be photographed at a later date.