Claim: Several of Joe Stevens' images are considered iconic, like his picture of Paul McCartney, one of this first employers, hiding in Linda's arms during the couple's arrest for marijuana possession and the the Gabriel photo.
Evidence: Several of his images are considered iconic. One is of Paul McCartney hiding in Linda's arms during the couple's arrest for marijuana possession following a Wings concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Aug. 10, 1972. Others are John Lennon wearing shoe bags on his hands as he and Yoko Ono marched to protest the 1971 obscenity trial of Oz magazine editors; Peter Gabriel covered with soap bubbles circa 1974 in the bathtub of Stevens's flat on Finborough Road in London S.W. One of his first employers was Paul McCartney, who hired him to photograph the Wings Over Europe tour on the recommendation of his wife Linda McCartney.