About this episode
Richard Young, a renowned photographer and former paparazzi king, shares his life experiences and encounters with celebrities.
Richard Young is a photographer who was once known as the “king of the paparazzi”. His portfolio is a who’s who of some of the biggest stars in film, music, stage and popular culture from the past fifty years. From gatecrashing Elizabeth Taylor’s party for Richard Burton’s 50th at the Dorchester to later being invited to photograph her Damehood celebrations. He can count the first photographs of Paul Getty Jr. after his kidnapping as just one of his many scoops. He was born in Hackney to a Jewish family and his father ran a hosiery stall in Berwick Street market for more than sixty years. Richard has dyslexia and after being expelled from school at fourteen, he went to Soho and landed a job in fashionable clothes shop frequented by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, David Hockney and Francis Bacon. A two-year stint in New York followed, working as a studio assistant at Electric Lady Studios, before he returned to London and found himself in a bookshop handed a camera and told to get on with photographing authors. For the past fifty years, he has lived a nocturnal, high octane life of private jets, parties and exclusive events, eventually becoming as much a fixture in the world of…
People in this episode
Guest: Richard Young
Topics covered
- photography
- celebrity culture
- personal journey
- music
- paparazzi
Keywords
- photographer
- paparazzi
- celebrity
- music
- New York
- London
- dyslexia
- famous parties
- photography gallery
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Electric Lady Studios, London
Places: Hackney, Berwick Street market, Soho, New York, London
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