Iggy Pop, Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin: Classic Shots From Rock Photographer Lynn Goldsmith

Legendary rock photographer Lynn Goldmith's current exhibition Rock and Roll: Lynn Goldsmith is up at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland through January 6th, 2008, but you don't have to hop a flight to check out some of the show's highlights: Click here to browse our gallery of shots from the exhibit, which includes bonus Goldsmith stories about Debbie Harry, the Eurythmics and more artists she has photographed across the globe. "If Debbie had not been successful as a recording artist, she would have been a star in being a makeup artist or fashion stylist," Goldsmith says, in reference to a photo of the punk icon from 1977. "Back in those days, artists did it themselves and she was the best one at it. She created looks that rock had never experienced before."

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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