Murder Times Three

January, 1998

London, Paris and Marrakesh were part of photographer Michael Cooper's canvas. Many familiar photos (i.e., the covers for Sgt. Pepper and Satanic Majesties Request) were Cooper's work. His friends--the Beatles, the Stones (Keith especially), artists Jim Dine and Larry Rivers and writers and poets Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, to name a few--allowed Cooper unusually close access to their lives. In documenting the excesses of his generation, Cooper succumbed to them as well...