The British master photographer and MBE recipient started off shooting friends like the Pogues and the Clash when he was a touring musician. Renowned for intense, intimate closeups, his portraits of celebrities, philosophers, moon landing astronauts, WWI veterans, and Holocaust survivors have graced elite editorial publications and museum permanent collections worldwide. Now residing in New Orleans, he returns to his hometown for the opening of the “Punk: Rage & Revolution” exhibition at the Leicester Museum and Galleries featuring his iconic photos from the early days along with other images and artifacts of the era. Steve’s punk ethos is that anyone can do anything. Tonight the Troubled Men prove that once again.

Topics include a return to the Ring Room, a sold-out Susan Cowsill show, Pat McLaughlin at Jazz Fest, the sobriety tent, an AirBnB, a wedding gift, a Mandina’s hit, reading in the sauna, the RTRs, motorcycle racing, a trip to NYC, a Cramps bubblebath photo, a CB radio club, getting published in NME, a Rolleiflex camera, earning your face, selective exposures, a Brian DePalma countdown, John Lydon, British coinage, a 50th anniversary show, punk fashion, Jamie Reid, a new publication of “I Could Read the Sky” by Unbound, old people, a lost generation, Spider Stacey, cleaning up, San Francisco, Russian baths, and much more.

Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman

Break Music: "Janie Jones" by the Clash

Outro Music: "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" by the Pogues

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