Best Dressed Mainman At The Twilight Zone Ball

Some say that the only reason Mick Rock got that job as Mainman’s official photographer/sometime designer was because Angie Bowie fancied his wife. That’s a solid maybe — you know how these kids like to dish the dirt around — but Rock was nonetheless given his chance to shine for one fleeting moment, being at the right place at the right time, his lens gleaming, for the summit-meeting of the O-minds. You must have seen that photo: for irony and sheer cuteness it stands in a class of its own, cutting such previous worldbeaters as the snap of ultra-cool Bobby Dylan and his self-conscious fledglings, the Byrds, backstage at Ciro’s in ‘65, or Mick Jagger’s toothy juvenile grin as he posed next to James Brown on an early Stones tour.