Abbey Road Studios will award British photographer David Bailey the Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual Music Photography Awards this week. The special one-off award recognizes Bailey’s contribution to music photography over the past six decades.

Bailey is known for capturing artists like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , Bob Marley, David Bowie, and Patti Smith throughout his career. “Everyone is going to take one great picture in their life and hopefully I’ll do two so I’ll have the edge,” Bailey said in a statement.

“Bailey’s photography broke boundaries with a dynamic, visceral and spontaneous style that was both defiant and pioneering,” Mark Robertson, Abbey Road’s Director of Marketing & Creative, said in a statement. “He turned his subject

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