Midnight Flyer
Former Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon in 1979. “I was going to use [this shot] for an album that never got made,” Leadon says.
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My Old Man
Image Credit: Graham Nash Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash in a limo, on their way to Big Bear Lake for a CSN shoot circa 1969. “After a couple of hours, they forgot I was there,” Diltz says. “That was a real moment.”
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Our House
Image Credit: Graham Nash Nash took this photo of Mitchell at the home they shared in 1969. “She was in the middle of recording an album,” Nash recalls. “I normally would have left her alone, [but] there’s no way I couldn’t shoot that. She looked incredibly beautiful.”
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New Kid in Town
Image Credit: Henry Diltz Diltz shot this photo of Steve Martin playing the guitar in 1969. “He lived right up the road,” the photographer recalls. “He’s one of the first guys I saw who had actual oil paintings. That really impressed me.”
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Monkee Business
Image Credit: Henry Diltz Eric Clapton (left) and Micky Dolenz in Cass Elliot’s backyard in 1968, in a photograph captured by Diltz. “That’s me filming Eric’s french fries,” says Dolenz, who was on the cusp of completing the second and final season of The Monkees for NBC at the time. “I was saying to Eric, ‘Move out of the way.'”
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Hold ‘Em
Image Credit: Nurit Wilde The Byrds’ Gram Parsons (left) and Chris Hillman playing cards in Peter Tork’s kitchen. “They were in their own little bubble,” says Wilde.
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Sunny Skies
Image Credit: Henry Diltz James Taylor playing “Oh, Susanna” in 1969. “That’s the first moment I laid eyes on him,” Diltz says.
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Before the Gold Rush
Image Credit: Henry Diltz Neil Young (left) and CSNY drummer Dallas Taylor. “They would hang out all day,” Diltz remembers. “Swimming in the pool, playing music, smoking doobies.”
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Dream a Little Dream
Image Credit: Henry Diltz Nash hanging out with Elliot in 1966, at the peak of their respective success with the Hollies and the Mamas and the Papas. “Mama Cass loved introducing people,” says Diltz. “She was a special catalyst — the Gertrude Stein of Laurel Canyon.”