I Shoot Rock Stars

THE BOOK IS A HUGELY ENTERTAINING READ. VERY EXCELLENT! * ROBERT SMITH (The Cure) *A dirty little page-turner from England’s greatest music video director. Like the man himself, it made me laugh and weep - all at the same time * MATT JOHNSON (The The) *For ‘Sex Dwarf’, Tim threw a bucket of maggots over us as I ran around in a leather jockstrap. There was a moment when we all thought, perhaps this time we’ve gone too far. It’s all in here * MARC ALMOND (Soft Cell) *Tim crashed the stage, camera on a fishing rod, chasing the shot he was seeing … and the next thing I knew, he was pressing it into my forehead … The book brought that moment vividly back * NEIL YOUNG *Tim Pope is, to my mind, the absolute dog’s bollocks in the world of pop video. He is the OG, the Don, he literally wrote the book * NORMAN COOK (aka Fatboy Slim) *Tim is a strange person * IGGY POP *Like the man himself, I Shoot Rock Stars is a brilliant, madcap adventure featuring a cast list of who’s who in music of the past forty years * TIM BURGESS (The Charlatans) *Tim Pope is completely unique in the landscape of film directors. His broad scope embraces music videos, feature films, television programmes and commercials. His remarkable talent never fails to dazzle. Many years ago he endeared himself to me because he was completely delighted and amused when a senior TV exec told him what we had made was “formless rubbish”. If this book is half as good as that then it promises to be fantastic * JOOLS HOLLAND *Tim seemed to enjoy torturing the people he worked with; in my case he painted me from head to toe in gold * SIOUXSIE SIOUX *

Tim Pope has directed over 200 music videos and live performance movies since the early 1980s for artists and bands including Neil Young, David Bowie, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, The Bangles, Siouxsie Sioux and Iggy Pop. His name is perhaps most synonymous with The Cure, for whom he has made thirty-seven videos and two concert films.

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