Henry Diltz: 'We call this shot Cleopatra. It was taken for a possible album cover, but was finally used for a billboard on Sunset Strip. We took a limo to the desert in the middle of the night arriving in the early morning. As the sun came up and the heat rose, Mama Cass’s make-up began melting down her face and the heat rose, Mama Cass’ makeup beging melting down her face. We had to check-in to a motel and spend the day by the swimming pool and give it another try at the end of the day.' Photograph: Henry Diltz
Filming the Hillbilly Honeymoon episode of their TV Series in 1967 Photograph: Henry Diltz
'Eric Clapton [right] was shy and didn’t know anyone in LA, so Mama Cass organised a picnic to introduce him to her friends. David Crosby [back] brought a young singer he’d discovered – Joni Mitchell [left]. Cass’s daughter Owen is sitting in the foreground' Photograph: Henry Diltz
‘Linda asked if I could shoot her and Paul for their Ram album songbook. The next day they sent this photo off for the cover of Life magazine’ Photograph: Henry Diltz
'Joni was my neighbour in Laurel Canyon. We both lived on Lookout Mountain Avenue. I stopped by one day to take publicity pictures for her and while she was leaning out the window talking to me, I began shooting. These ended up being the best photos. This was the house where she lived with Graham Nash who wrote: “Our house is a very, very, very fine house”' Photograph: Henry Diltz
'Jimi was scheduled to end the festival on Sunday night, but Sunday night became Monday morning! Bleary eyed in the dawn, our senses were hugeley awakened by his amazing music. The high point of the entire festival, for me, was his solo version of the Star Spangled Banner complete with the sound effects of war' Photograph: Henry Diltz
'Ron Wood’s solo record came out and he had to tour to promote it, so he formed a band with his pals Keith Richards and Ian McLagan called the New Barbarians. This photo was taken in some airport in the midwest where we’d all just got off the plane and were finding our designated limos to the hotel. Keith is standing by his limo, waiting for Woody.' Photograph: Henry Diltz
'We were staying in this little cabin and Stephen got a message that Jimi Hendrix had died. We stayed up all night and in the morning the ground was covered with fresh snow. Stephen insisted on having this pink giraffe in the picture with him. I think it was a secret signal to an old girlfriend. This later became his first solo album cover' Photograph: Henry Diltz
Performing with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at Balboa Stadium in 1969 Photograph: Henry Diltz
The cover for the Doors' fifth album Morrison Hotel was shot surreptitiously after the owners of the eponymous hotel refused permission for the band to be photographed there Photograph: Henry Diltz
