Eventually the show moved to Wembly Studios. It lost a little of the vibrancy, but with artists such as Little Richard, Sonny and Cher, James Brown, and The Ike and Tina Turner Revue, there were some golden picture moments.
I had taken a couple of excellent portraits of Dusty Springfield on Ready, Steady, Go but we had a curious love/hate relationship. She would warn people about me - "Watch him, he's an evil one--he always gets his pictures" - but she was smiling as she said it.
This started when I went down to Bristol to photograph The Springfields on a TV show at the behest of the record company, Philips. When I arrived I was told, "Sorry, no pictures." I appealed, "I'm doing it for the record company, and I have come all this way, no pictures - no pay for me."
After many phone calls back and forth to London, there was still a stalemate. Suddenly Dusty said, "Oh, take your fucking picture!" Which I did. And thought no more about it - until the next morning when all the papers carried the story that The Springfields were breaking up. I'd photographed their final appearance.
From "The Unclosed Eye: The Music Photography of David Redfern"
Sanctuary Music Library, 1999