Live4ever is excited to present a very special sneak peak at world renown rock photographer Paul Slattery’s Oasis photos which he hand picked for our site. The “Oasis in the US” photos viewed here are featured in Paul’s book Oasis: A Year On the Road. Here’s more about the author:
Paul Slatttery (pictured with Noel Gallagher in 94) first jumped into the photographer’s pit at a gig by his teenage guitar hero Link Wray at London’s Lyceum in June 1975 when he should have been studying for his final exams. Narrowly passing those exams, he could have got a job as a town planner, but it was planning the next gig that soon became his life. A chance meeting with Lemmy at the Nashville in West Kensington convinced him of the need to have a rock and roll lifestyle and he subsequently went on to photograph the Pistols, The Ramones and The Clash.
Going on to photograph such bands as U2, Joy Division, The Fall and The
Specials he has flirted with Heavy Metal and survived drinking sessions with
the likes of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and of course Motörhead and counts
Lemmy as a true gent and a number one rock god.
In complete contrast hemade some of the most iconic photographs of the Smiths in the mid eighties, and in the late eighties and early nineties he photographed the Stones Roses and a young Manic Street Preachers, bands that captured the spirit of the
times.
In February 1994 he was introduced to a then unknown band called Oasis with whom he eventually spent a year on the road. It is from these photographs that this book has been compiled. Paul’s photographs have appeared in thousands of magazines worldwide, over 80 books on rock and roll bands, and on numerous CD’s.