{"id":725980,"date":"2026-08-03T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:40:09","slug":"sade-wasnt-particularly-friendly-the-stories-behind-musics-most-iconic-portraits-in-pictures-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/725980\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sade wasn\u2019t particularly friendly\u2019: the stories behind music\u2019s most iconic portraits \u2013 in pictures | Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a career spanning six decades, photographer Gered Mankowitz has nurtured trusting relationships with many of the twentieth century\u2019s defining artists. As he celebrates his 80th birthday, Mankowitz opens up about the stories behind iconic images of Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Annie Lennox and others that have have become indelible parts of pop culture history. These images are taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/gered-mankowitz-photographs\/\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gered Mankowitz: Photographs<\/a>, out now via ACC Art Books; much of Greg\u2019s work is also displayed at Iconic Images Gallery, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a career spanning six decades, photographer Gered Mankowitz has nurtured trusting relationships with many of the twentieth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}