Henry Diltz 1978 bio the year the book "California Rock, California Sound" was published. was born in Kansas City, Missiouri, in 1938. His father worked for the State Department and so Henry spent many of his early years living overseas - in Tokyo, Bangkok and Munich. He attended college in Munich, the US Military Academy, West Point and went on to Hawaii to play music and study psychology at the University. As a musician, Henry was a founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet, originally formed fifteen years ago and recently reunited after a ten-year break. The M.F.Q. recorded two albums for Warner Bros Records and a single with Phil Spector. They did a numerous college concert tours and club engagements around the country, including Manhattan's "Village Gate," and the "Troubador"

Left: Anthony Fawcett, right: Henry Diltz Photo by Birrer

and "Whisky-A-Go-Go in Hollywood. Henry went into photography while he was a musician in the late sixties. He had no formal training but having a similar life style and a good eye attracted many of his fellow musicians who needed publicity and album cover shots. Henry was the official photographer at Woodstock, and the Monterey and Miami Music Festivals. In the past ten years he has photographed some eighty record album covers. A portfolio of his black and white photos was selected for "Shooting Stars," a book of the leading rock and roll photographers published by Straight Arrow in 1973. His photo's have appeared on the covers of Life, Rolling Stone, Cashbox, and the Los Angeles Times. Henry was represented in a recent exhibition of album cover art at Syracuse University in New York State. He is currently living in Los Angeles, and recording a new album with the M.F.Q. Anthony Fawcett was born in London. England in 1948. He studied Fine Art at Oxford University, at the Ruskin School of Drawing in the Ashmolean Museum. He worked as an Art Critic in London from 1967 to 1970 and wrote regular columns for Art and Artists, Vogue, Sculpture International, and Opus International (Paris). He worked on special projects with several artists, including Salvador Dali. Between 1968 and 1970 he worked closely with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, first as their advisor on art projects, later as director of their office at Apple and as a personal assistant to Lennon. From 1970 to 1972, Anthony worked with Stephen Stills as his European advisor, based out of Brookfield House, Elstead - Stills Tudor estate in Surrey. In 1972 he set up A.P.T. Enterprises (Art and Pop on Television) working in various areas with artists, sculptors and musicians. He travelled extensively in the states, and in 1976 Grove Press published his book, "John Lennon - One Day At A Time: A Personal Biography of the Seventies." In 1977 he was a contribitor to "The Sixties," a Random House/Rolling Stones Press book. He now divides his time and work between Los Angeles, New York and London.

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