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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'

The Guardian — Sam Cooke, Sly Stone and Little Willie fought for her attention. Jimi Hendrix loved her so much he wrote songs about her. In a rare interview Lithofayne Pridgon tells Chris Campion the unvarnished story of Harlem's wildest music scene - and how she came to be Hendrix's greatest muse
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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'

The Guardian — When American artist Judy Chicago accepted an invitation earlier this year from the Tate to paint a large-scale public mural as part of Liverpool's Sgt Pepper at 50 celebration of the Beatles' most popular album, she was amused to hear of an exchange between two of the curators involved in the project.
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Chris Campion meets the friends of John Phillips

Chris Campion meets the friends of John Phillips

The Guardian — In August 1977, John Phillips was supposed to be recording the album with Keith Richards that would mark his comeback. Studio time at Media Sound in New York was booked from 9pm but it might be 2am before the pair - two of the most charismatic stars of their generation and now two inveterate junkies - finally showed or 5am or not at all.
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Saturation 70: the Gram Parsons UFO film that never flew

Saturation 70: the Gram Parsons UFO film that never flew

The Guardian — Years before Star Wars, a maverick director led a crew into the desert to film a psychedelic science fiction epic - starring the country singer and the five-year-old son of Rolling Stone Brian Jones. Now unseen photographs will tell the bizarre story, writes Chris Campion
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Trip of a lifetime: Roger Steffens and the Family Acid

Trip of a lifetime: Roger Steffens and the Family Acid

The Guardian — Roger Steffens has led a life that might seem almost unbelievable if he hadn't captured it all on film. An actor, poet, broadcaster and writer, he is regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on Bob Marley and the Wailers.
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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

The Guardian — At the end of the 1970s, artist Ed Ruscha left an artwork - a fake rock - somewhere in the vast Mojave desert. French artist Pierre Bismuth has spent a decade trying to find it - with the help of a private detective and a film crew
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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

The Telegraph — I first met Johnny Depp in 1984. For decades I had been living in Brazil, where I had begun tattooing, and I had decided to move to Los Angeles. I knew a bunch of crazy musicians in a band called the Rock City Angels, who were all living in this historic building in Hollywood called the Fontenoy, and I started hanging out with those guys.
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Turning real terror into gripping cinema

Turning real terror into gripping cinema

The Telegraph — Television reporters from the nearby headquarters of the Globo TV network who were sent down to cover the hijack managed to set up their cameras right next to the bus. Documentary film producer Padilha was working out in the gym when the first live images of the hijack started to filter through, and he was amazed to see the neighbourhood in which he lived flash up on the screen.
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