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The ’60s were a heady time for most everybody, but for commercial production director Steve Banks, they were headier than most.

By day, Banks toiled for William Esty and other New York ad agencies. By night, he prowled Manhattan, photograph ing some of the legend ary names in music. He snapped Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone and others at Fillmore East, and Sammy Davis Jr. at the Copaca bana. One memorable evening in December 1969, he photographed Janis Joplin at one of her last big concerts before her death.

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