Martyn Goddard played an important part in the New Wave music scene in the late 1970s working with bands such as Blondie, The Jam & The Cure. He created many of their most enduring and iconic images.
Martyn Goddard recalls "I started my career as a dyslexic photographer but due to the massive changes in technology and the publishing business I am now a photojournalist, producing words to accompany the images. In the early days, I presented my portfolio to magazines and record companies, picture editors and art directors and it was a couple of these who gave me the career breaks.
"Nowadays, from time to time, I lecture to student photographers, by chance at my old college, now called Westminster University. My opening comment is something like, "the only thing that is the same today as that day in 1973 when I graduated is that light passes through the lens of a camera"
Check out Martyn's fantastic collection of limited edition prints
Photo shoot for Telegraph Sunday Magazine used on Parallel Lines picture disc, taken in New York in 1978.
Cover artwork for The Jam's debut album 'In The City' released in 1977
Cover art for The Cure's debut studio album 'Three Imaginary Boys' released in May 1979
Pete Townshend posing in a recording studio in Soho, London in 1980
Debbie Harry leaning on Martyn Goddard's tripod with his Nikon FE camera. Shot on a New York rooftop in 1978
Freddie Mercury in the spotlight whilst playing the grand piano in Southampton in May, 1977.
Early shot of U2 taken in Bayswater, London in the summer of 1979 for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine.
Martyn Goddard shot AC/DC in 1976 during their first UK tour when they played five gigs at the Marquee Club
George Michael captured on the video shoot for his single 'I Want Your Sex' released in 1987
Contact sheet photograph of Debbie Harry, Blondie recording their classic album Parallel Lines in New York in 1978
Elton John photo shoot in Montserrat for the 'Empty Garden' single cover and press photography for the 'Jump Up!' album
Blondie captured during a photoshoot for their album cover for 'Best of Blondie' taken on top of Record Plant Studio in New York in 1978
AC/DC photo shoot taken during their 1976 residency at the Marquee Club, London
Contact sheet of AC/DC photos taken whilst they were completing their 1976 residency at the Marquee Club, London.
Debbie Harry, Blondie recording Parallel Lines at the Record Plant Studio, New York in 1978
Contact sheet of The Jam's photo shoot for the cover of their debut album 'In The City'
Debbie Harry captured backstage at a Blondie gig in Phildelphia in 1978
Debbie Harry travelling with Blondie on their tour bus to Philadelphia in 1978
Pete Townshend walking down a quiet Soho street, London in 1980 whilst on a photo shoot for the Telegraph Sunday magazine
The Jam photographed by Martyn Goddard for their first album 'In The City' shot in London in 1977
The Clash on stage at the the first large scale Rock Against Racism/Anti Nazi League carnival at Victoria Park, April 1978.
Debbie Harry captured backstage at a Blondie gig in Phildelphia in 1978
Bob Dylan taken in Italy during a press conference for the launch of his 1984 European Tour
Limited edition of Morgan Howell's original painting of the cover of The Beatles' 'Yesterday' vinyl single
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