David Bowie, Debbie Harry and Liam Gallagher prints feature in Edinburgh gallery's Rock Star exhibition, here's where you can buy them

Rock Stars, a collection of works by artists Brian Aris, Doug Corrance, Peter Hince, Chris Close, John Claridge and others opens on 21 March and runs until 13 April.

Rock Stars inhabit another world that most of us look on with a mixture of admiration, jealousy and sometimes horror. This exhibition features a series of portraits of some of the greats from the world of Rock and Roll including Kate Bush, The Stones and Queen to name but a few.

Gallery owner Chris Close recalls how, when shooting Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, "Johnny had had a few beers and started taking his clothes off.

“He was over 50 at this stage and his body was not ‘beach ready'. “He looked at one of the pictures and snarled, “Look at that, I’m disgusting... that’s great”.

just one of the tales behind the works on display in the free exhibition.

Other artists exhibited include, Peter Hince who was Queen’s chief roadie for more than a decade. He was persuaded to stay on for what turned out to be the bands last tour with Freddie at the helm before embarking on a career in photography.

Peter went on to become an award winning photographer with his underwater images receiving great critical acclaim. He refers to Freddie as Fred and one day Fred called him in one day to say “You must take a picture with the robes and crown.”

“Being Queen”, says Hince, “It was made well and was actually quite heavy. He was not the arrogant persona that the press liked to portray.”

The image was take when Mercury knew he was ill.

The featured picture of David Bowie is the work of Brian Aris who also shot Debroah Harry of Blondie in the 70s at his East End studio in London.

The East End at that time was the East End of grit and grime and not the gentrified desirable district it is now. People did not want to go there but it never fazed Harry. She was a New Yorker. This picture became the first of many he was to shoot of the Blondie star over the years.

Aris also shot David Bowies’ wedding to Iman in Italy. To stop the press getting access they rigged up big drapes but during the ceremony one guest tried to sneak a picture. Bowie approached Brian afterwards and promptly threw the person who had done it out.

Also on display is work by Doug Corrance who was a press photographer working on a local paper in Inverness when he was asked to photograph Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin,

Page owned Aleister Crowley’s former house near Loch Ness. Crowley was a notorious figure, sometimes portrayed as a devil worshipper and there is even a song by Black Sabbath entitled Mr Crowley. Bowie too references him in his song Station to Station. The house has now gone, it burnt down appropriately enough and Corrance's pictures of Page have taken on a historical significance.

Finally Lynn Goldsmith, the New York based rock photographer who has shot Springsteen, U2, The Stones, Patti Smith, Zappa and the inimitable Debbie Harry is represented in the exhibition and is one of the world’s most prominent rock and roll photographers.

All work on display is for sale and is signed and editioned.

Gallery Close, Howe Street, is open Wednesday to Saturday 10am-6pm