Anthony mason cbs biography of michael jackson
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An album of some of music's finest moments can take the form of pictures as well as songs. Anthony Mason has proof:
On a porch in Silver Lake, Calif., singer Paige Califano poses for photographer Henry Diltz.
The shoot for her first solo record will be just one of his more than 200 album covers.
It's been almost 50 years since Diltz first picked up a camera. He shot The Mamas & The Papas, the Eagles, and Jackson Browne for their album covers . . . Paul and Linda McCartney for a Life magazine cover . . . a young Michael Jackson . . . an old B.B. King.
The archive in his bungalow in North Hollywood holds some 400,000 photographs, alphabetized from "A" (for America) to "Z" (for Zappa).
It's almost impossible to illustrate a history of American music in the late Sixties and Seventies without Diltz's pictures.
Diltz showed Mason a shot of Crosby, Stills & Nash, used for their first album cover. "That was just a little old shack with a couch in front of it in West Hollywood," he said. "We took the picture and it turned out they were sitting in the wrong order -- they'd named [the group] a few days later. So we went back to re-shoot the picture, and the house was gone. They'd torn it down, yeah. It was a pile of sticks in the back of the lot."
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A Conversation with CBS This Morning: Saturday's Anthony Mason
Mike Ragogna: Good This Morning, Anthony!
Anthony Mason: [laughs]
MR: You've been in journalism for over thirty years. When did you start focusing on interviews?
AM: Well, it was kind of an accidental transition. What happened really was I saw a colleague of mine, a cameraman named Ron Dean who was out shooting a story one day on 25th street. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was shooting some B-roll for a piece on Patti Scialfa who is Bruce Springsteen's wife, who I've been a huge fan of. I said, "Oh really? That's really cool, who's doing it?" and he told me that Jim Axelrod was doing it and I was like, "Damn," because I really would've loved to do that story because I know all about her music and I went through a divorce, frankly, with her album. If you know Patti's first album Rumble Doll, it's basically a conversation with Bruce's album Tunnel Of Love. They're two sides of the same event, his divorce, her trying to get him to jump when he won't, it's a conversation which if you full know know what went on is very interesting. My now wife's favorite album during my divorce was Rumble Doll and mine was Tunnel Of Love. That's why I was p
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