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Chris Campion

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Writer for @theguardian and @telegraph. Author of 'Wolfking', forthcoming biography of Papa John Phillips. Occasional ghostwriter. Producer for @stceciliaknows.
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Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix's original 'foxy lady'

Lithofayne Pridgon: Jimi Hendrix's original 'foxy lady'

Sam Cooke, Sly Stone and Little Willie fought for her attention. Jimi Hendrix loved her so much he wrote song…

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Judy Chicago on the Beatles: 'They represent things we have lost - hope and freedom'

Judy Chicago on the Beatles: 'They represent things we have lost - hope and freedom'

When American artist Judy Chicago accepted an invitation earlier this year from the Tate to paint a large-sca…

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Chris Campion meets the friends of John Phillips

Chris Campion meets the friends of John Phillips

In August 1977, John Phillips was supposed to be recording the album with Keith Richards that would mark his …

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Saturation 70: the Gram Parsons UFO film that never flew

Saturation 70: the Gram Parsons UFO film that never flew

Years before Star Wars, a maverick director led a crew into the desert to film a psychedelic science fiction …

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Trip of a lifetime: Roger Steffens and the Family Acid

Trip of a lifetime: Roger Steffens and the Family Acid

Roger Steffens has led a life that might seem almost unbelievable if he hadn't captured it all on film. An ac…

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Where is Rocky II? The 10-year desert hunt for Ed Ruscha's missing boulder

Where is Rocky II? The 10-year desert hunt for Ed Ruscha's missing boulder

At the end of the 1970s, artist Ed Ruscha left an artwork - a fake rock - somewhere in the vast Mojave desert…

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My tattoo pact with Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch

My tattoo pact with Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch

I first met Johnny Depp in 1984. For decades I had been living in Brazil, where I had begun tattooing, and I …

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Turning real terror into gripping cinema

Turning real terror into gripping cinema

Television reporters from the nearby headquarters of the Globo TV network who were sent down to cover the hij…

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