Underground Icons and a Rocking Revolution

The troubled but brilliant Bonzo Dog Doo Dah leader Viv Stanshall posed with Oz’s sex therapist for one of the magazine’s more tasteful covers.

Long before he started taking pictures for pukka motorcycle magazines Keith – then a keen biker himself – illustrated a feature on London’s not-as-hard-as-they-looked outlaw bikers… this one aboard a lowly 350cc Honda

With its first designer, Jon Goodchild as his flatmate, it was hardly surprising that Keith did much work for Oz magazine and here its shrinking violet editor, Richard Neville, graces Keith’s studio with the first of what would be a regular display of nudity by Oz staffers

Shot for Oz magazine, the juxtaposition of 2/3rds of the wilfully louche Jimi Hendrix Experience and Caroline Coon, founder of the drug helpline, Release, was interesting to say the least

The Bonzos were musically far more accomplished than their lunatic image perhaps suggested, but they were indeed very, very funny. This was taken at the Royal Albert Hall and shows them at their irrepressible best.

The foul-mouthed alter egos of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were arguably their comedic response to punk rock but in this Island Records p.r. shoot Keith found them both “charming… and hilarious”

Keith’s records don’t reveal the circumstances of this shoot with former ‘world’s strongest man’ and later California’s 38th governor, but in ‘77 he was in London to promote his fifth movie, Pumping Iron, and at least revealed a sense of humour to Keith’s camera

Like the founders of Oz magazine, radical feminist Germaine decamped to England from Australia in the late ‘60s, became that magazine’s sex therapist, and later joined the notorious Amsterdam-based sex magazine for whom she posed nude. This is one of Keith’s tamer studies of her.