I walk the line

Notre Dame, Paris, 1977

“Have you been drinking, son?

 You don’t look old enough to me.”

“I’m sorry, officer, is there a certain age you’re supposed to be?

Tell me that I haven’t changed

I photographed McCartney [for] a shoot for the Observer Music Monthly. He was to be interviewed by Pete Doherty, the singer and musician best known as the frontman for the Libertines. Doherty had been allowed out of rehab to interview him, so it was a great opportunity to photograph the two of them together, even though they made an incongruous pair.

I had plenty of time to shoot a series of pictures of Doherty on his own, but when McCartney arrived, the photographs of them both were done very quickly. I set up a grey background and took some shots, both as a record of their meeting and as a prelude to the interview. It was a brief but convivial shoot. McCartney was very courteous and professional, as well as being very gracious, considering the number of times he has been photographed.

[Harry Borden, Amateur Photographer, December 2016]

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