/kəh-rin'/, 22. A lonesome hobo and a freeloader.

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Ray Charles.  Oakland, California, 1960. Charles, who had just scored a Number One pop hit with “Georgia on My Mind,” headlined this concert.  That night Marshall introduced the thirty-year-old Charles to influential music critic Ralph Gleason, later a cofounder of Rolling Stone. © Jim Marshall (Images of Rock and Roll) 
K.D. Lang. Los Angeles, 1992. Danelian wanted to avoid a glamour-puss pose when photographing Lang around the time of Ingenue’s release, the album of sophisticated torch songs that brought the singer massive success. He waited for a rainy day and, using the Holiday Inn in the background, captured on film, Danelian said, “a naturalness and fluidity, two key elements of Lang’s music.” © Stephen Danelian (Images of Rock and Roll) 
Bob Dylan.  Woodstock, New York , 1968. Landy, having photographed Dylan for the Saturday Evening Post, visited the elusive songwriter, here holding his son Jesse, to show him the pictures — and had the opportunity to shoot some more. © Eliott Landy
Yoko Ono.  1981. This was the portrait taken of Ono following the death of John Lennon. Leibovitz also took the last photos of Lennon before his murder in New York City on December 9, 1980. © Annie Leibovitz
John Lennon. Hamburg, Germany, 1962. The year before the release of the first Beatles album, Lennon was photographed in the art studio of the late Stu Sutcliffe — with whom Kirchherr had been romantically involved. The only light fell from a small window, parting the grieving Lennon’s face in half. Lennon and Sutcliffe had been close friends since their student days in Liverpool. © Astrid Kirchherr
Janet Jackson.  1993. Taken at Long Beach Airport, this picture “was inspired by the old glamour celebrity shots of the thirties and forties,” Elizondo said. “It was shot looking out of an airplane hangar, into the night.” © Yuri Elizondo
The Beatles.  San Francisco, 1966. Marshall, the official photographer to shoot the Beatles’ final live concert, captured the Fab Four — John, George, Paul and Ringo — heading for the stage that evening of August 29th in Candlestick Park. © Jim Marshall
Johnny Winter.  Los Angeles, 1970. In the wake of the blues guitarist’s highly successful 1969 self-titled debut album, Seeff framed the twenty-six-year-old Winter “catching his own self-reflection, an outward expression of that inner movement.” Two years later, the albino Texan’s career would be briefly derailed by his heroin addiction. © Norman Seeff
Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious. 1977. This promotional photo for the Sex Pistols’ infamous debut album featured the bassist and his soul mate. Both were dead less than two years later. © London Features