Sheila Rock was born in the United States and has lived and worked in London since 1970. Since 1979, she has had a successful career photographing the entertainment and music industry. Subjects include artists such as Sting, Paul Weller, Enya, Yossou N’Dour, Sinead O’Connor, Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Sir Simon Rattle and institutions such the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet in London.
The FACE magazine in the 1980s launched her career. Her editorial work has since appeared in German Vogue, Elle, Glamour, Architectural Digest, The London Sunday Times, French Spoon, The Telegraph Magazine, Irish Tatler, Brides magazines.
She has had recent solo exhibitions at the June Bateman Gallery in NYC, the Photographers Gallery London. and the Blue Tulip Gallery, Windsor. Previous exhibitions in London, England, include ICONS OF POP at the National Portrait Gallery and THE PHOTOGRAPHERS CUT 1960-2000- the Rock n Roll Years - at the Proud Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
In her music career Shelia was known for photographing leading entertainment and music industry artists in both Classical and Pop/Rock. For many years she did press and publicity for institutions such as the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet and the Barbican London.
Shelia's current work is more personal photographs, recently published in a series of books available as images in galleries.
Blondie were in London for just one day on their second British Tour playing at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park.
"I met Debbie Harry at a late night party somewhere in Islington, London. She was with a friend of mine from New York."
"I met them at their ICA gig in 1976 and went to Chalk Farm to photograph them soon afterwards. They had iconic status even then."
The Clash outside the Roundhouse, Camden , London 1976 taking a break from their busy rehearsal schedule.
"I photographed them quite a lot around 1976/77 and then a few times later on in 1982, when the cool punk band had become a cool rock band."
Paul Weller onstage with The Jam during a gig at the Friars, Aylesbury in June 1978.
John Lydon formerly with The Sex Pistols photographed in November 1980 in Shepherds Bush, London during the PiL days for Face Magazine
John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, formerly with the Sex Pistols, captured in a red coat in London in 1980
It was just before ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and I didn’t know much about her. She was confident and had strong ideas.
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Nirvana in Madrid during their European Tour of In Utero in July 1992
Early in October 1997 fans found out that Oasis were recording in Abbey Road, and the graffiti outside started showing Oasis content
Phil Collins captured during a feature for Sounds Magazine in April 1980 whilst on Genesis' 'The Duke' tour
Pink Floyd are currently getting set for the 'Their Mortal Remains' exhibition at the V&A - Check out our range of images for sale.
The Pretenders, led by lead vocalist Chrissie Hynde, crossed the bridge between punk and pop with their melodic yet hard, spiky songs
The Ramones' loud, fast, straightforward musical style was influenced by music that the band members grew up listening to in the 50s & 60s.
Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter & arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.
We remember the late, great David Bowie one year after his untimely passing. This collection captures his innovative, uncompromising genius
Album covers can define a band almost as much as the music itself. Now you can put this great art on your wall as well as your turntable
Edition 100 was created to give fans & collectors a chance to own classic, historical pictures of their favorite bands.
All our traditonal darkroom prints are hand printed from the original negative by a master printer to give them a crafted and unique feel
