Rec. #691: Behind the Scenes with the Biggest Soul Stars of the '70s

What: Photographer Bruce Talamon spent a decade following R&B and soul artists in the U.S., and now 300 pictures from his archive have been collected into a book.

The Guardian shares some of the images, as well as insight from Talamon, in this article.

Representative quote: "Backstage, publicists [back then] didn’t snatch the Jack Daniel’s out of the artist’s hand or take the spliff out of Bob Marley’s mouth. I could shoot all night long and nobody ever said: ‘Put your camera down.'"
How to get it: "Behind the Scenes with the Biggest Soul Stars of the '70s" was published in The Guardian this past July.