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well, roger didn't have a smoke machine, but if you were doing rock and pop in the '605, '705, '805 you had to have smoke. so he struck very early on on the device of getting the roadies to smoke two or three cigarettes at once. this picture is normally shown cropped, you know, like that, but we left it uncropped so we could demonstrate roger's home—made smoke machine. well, if it's images of rock stars which first grab your attention. come into this room and it soon becomes clear that roger was just as inspired, perhaps more so, by the people and the scenes right on his doorstep. he somehow made the demise of the west pier beautiful, if heartbreaking. and while it's perhaps no surprise that the brighton festival inspired him, he could also turn a commission from the bus company into a work of art, as he did with his lifelong passion for the railway. all of it on show here at the brighton museum and art gallery. well, i think he always looked for a story and he was really interested in people, i think, more than anything. and some of his photographs he has just taken them with people he has