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David Levine (photographer)

As an assistant in the late 70's David Levine used is evenings and weekends to photograph bands at London's top music venues. This lead to him shooting Iggy Pop the Fabulous Poodles and the Tourist. His Live picture of Annie Lennox made the front page of Sounds. A leading music paper at the time after than the published pictures and photo request be came so demanding that David soon left assisting to start working full time in the music industry.

His work was noticed by the already successful Boy George and Culture Club, after a short meeting David agreed to a session. That session produced the image that was bought by Virgin Records to be used the Karma Chameleon single sleeve.

After the success of Karma Chameleon David Levine became the must use music photographer of the early 80's working with PWL's many acts including Kylie Minogue Mel and Kim and Kim. David's client alsdo included ABC, The Cure, Hugh Cornwell, Adam Ant, The Beat, Mark E Smith's The Fall.