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20/06/05 - PROMO: LARRY KING LIVE, LONDON Transcript by Laura Cox (Aired July
2nd in USA): Plus Rick Springfield, still around, still rocking and ready to replay some of the best songs of the '80s. (MUSIC) And insights into a stunning documentary about dancing and the mean streets of South Central L.A. "Rize" will move you in more ways than one. All that and more, next on LARRY KING LIVE. (MUSIC) We now welcome to LARRY KING LIVE from London Bryan Adams, the famed musician and photographer who is the photographer for the new book, "American Women." His latest CD is "Room Service." Bryan, are you a musician who takes pictures or a photographer who does music? BRYAN ADAMS, MUSICIAN: I am a musician first and I started out taking pictures to sort of document my work on tour and in the studio and it's just gone a little bit further than that now. Obviously now with this new book. KING: What led to "American Women"? ADAMS: Well, it started out with -- I did a book called "Made in Canada" on Canadian women and it was inspired by a friend of mine who was suffering from breast cancer at the time and I did it as a tribute to her and she didn't make it, unfortunately. So over the last sort of eight years I've done various projects in support of breast cancer and all as a tribute to my friend. KING: How did you get into photography -- how did you get into taking pictures? I mean, you liked it when you were on tour but how did you make it a kind of semi profession? ADAMS: I guess when you start taking portraits of people you've got to get a bit more serious and by the time it came round to being asked to do this project by Calvin Klein, I really had to pull my socks up and get serious with it and there's a lot that goes into it and I just basically became very empirical about my work and just whatever -- however I could make it look the best I could, I went for it. KING: And they were all wearing Calvin Klein. How did that hookup begin between you and him? ADAMS: I did an exhibition in London and one of the people that was helping me with the project now works for Calvin Klein and about a year and a half ago, two years ago, he phoned me up and said would you like to -- his name is Malcolm Calfray (ph) and he asked me if I would like to be involved in doing a book with Calvin Klein to support breast cancer and I said, yeah, I'd love to do it. So we spent a year doing this book and it was an interesting project because in some cases the most difficult thing was scheduling my time with a studio with a group of people that could be involved with the book so in some cases I would walk into a studio and have 14 people to shoot in a day but that was the way it was and it worked out. KING: Why all black and white? ADAMS: Well, the book was shot originally in color and black and white but I think at the end of the day the Calvin Klein aesthetic is very simply and black and white and the way to unify the project was to do it all in black and white. I think it worked out well. KING: It's been said -- We discussed it earlier. A great photographer -- it's more the photographer than the camera. Do you agree? ADAMS: I think -- yeah, you have to recognize the moment with people and sometimes it can only be for a second. The -- sometimes it's the shots between the shots, if that makes any sense. When people lose -- they're off guard and they're not thinking about the camera and many, many times that was the case with the photographs in this book. I was trying to find a moment and even though sometimes I only had five minutes with somebody, I'd have to try and inspire that little moment to come out between us and I think photographers have a role which they have to make their subjects comfortable and it's always interesting when you get involved with someone face to face and as soon as you raise a camera up to their face, everyone -- even when you bring a point and shoot and you put it up at a dinner, everyone's expression changes. So it's just trying to make it seem natural. KING: It's storytelling, isn't it? ADAMS: Yeah, it's about finding an expression in somebody that helps tell the tale of what you are trying to achieve. And obviously with this book, "American Women," I wanted to find something that exuded a little bit of confidence and of course a beautiful shot for each person. KING: Tell me about that lost shot in the book, the one of Hillary Clinton. ADAMS: Hillary? That was great. She came in and there was a bevy of security guards and -- But it was one of the rare occasions during the course of the book that I had a whole morning to do a picture and so we were well prepared and she was ever so gracious and we -- I brought a couple of books for her to sign, one for my dad and one for myself and so everybody else had had a bevy of books of her autobiography and it was just a great morning. I will never forget it. KING: Tell me about the new CD. ADAMS: Could be a future president, Larry. KING: You think so. Wow. You Canadians, you know us. ADAMS: Well, as a Canadian, I would vote for her. KING: Do you -- Tell me about the new CD, "Room Service." ADAMS: It's just come out in America. It is the latest collection of songs I have done. It's a combination of rockers and slow numbers and I am on tour this summer all over the states. I've got a double header with Def Leppard and we're having a great time. KING: Do you like recording as much as being on state or is stage preferred? ADAMS: Well, this album was done in a peculiar way. We recorded it all in hotels around Europe over the last two year and so I got to say, I tried to use my time as creatively as possible. KING: In hotel ballrooms, you mean? ADAMS: No. In hotel rooms. KING: In hotel rooms. ADAMS: (unintelligible) on my door in the middle of the night. KING: Why? ADAMS: Yeah, literally in the rooms. Well, because you have 24 hours onstage and you have got the rest of the time you need to kick around and find your way to the concert so in my time when I wasn't doing anything I would set up this small studio in my hotel and we recorded the whole album using just whatever space we had in the room that day. KING: Thanks, Bryan. Good luck. ADAMS: Hey Larry, one more thing before you go. I just have to say, back in the day, before you were doing TV, we used to listen to you driving around on the road on the radio. Thanks for those days. KING: Those were the nights. ADAMS: I enjoyed it. KING: Thank you. Bryan Adams, the musician, photographer, the world's best-known Canadian. The book is "American Women." The new CD is "Room Service." Back after this. | |||
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