The Beatles during the recording of their first hit single, Please Please Me, in the backyard of Abbey Road Studios in London, January 1963

O’Neill later recalled: “I was asked to go down to Abbey Road Studios and take a few portraits of this new band. I didn’t know how to work with a group, but because I was a musician myself and the youngest on staff by a decade, I was always the one they’d ask. I took the four young lads outside for better light. That portrait ran in the papers the next day and the paper sold out. That band became the biggest band in the world, the Beatles”

Winston Churchill being carried in a chair to an ambulance after being discharged from hospital, August 1962

This shot was taken by O’Neill while he worked in Fleet Street

Actor Raquel Welch wearing a cowboy hat on a sandy beach, mid-1960s

O’Neill’s agency Iconic Images quoted Welch as saying: “I never liked being photographed … until I started working with Terry. [The first time she worked with him] I thought, glancing in his direction, ‘He’s attractive!’ ‘Hey Rocky,’ he smiled. How did he know my nickname? I smiled back and thought, ‘That’s a cool way to break the ice’”

The Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London, 1963

“Terry O’Neill captured us on the street, and that made all the difference. Terry captured the time,” said the band’s manager, Andrew Loog Oldham

Michael Caine and Swedish actor Camilla Sparv, circa 1966

Caine said: “Terry was a historian whose camera captured the resurgence and energy of this revolution”

Actor Terence Stamp and Jean Shrimpton, London, circa 1965

The couple were hailed by Vogue magazine as the faces of the 60s

Roger Moore, Gloria Hendry and Jane Seymour in a promotional image for the Bond film

Live and Let Die, 1973O’Neill was one of the first photographers to work with the Bond franchise. O’Neill worked on several of the films

Elton John performing at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, October 1975

“I’d often be asked by the papers: who’s next? Who is going to be the next big rock’n’roll star? And that was Elton John,” O’Neill said. Some of O’Neill’s images were used as reference material for the recent film Rocketman

Faye Dunaway by the pool the morning after winning an Oscar for her role in Network, March 1977

O’Neill convinced the actor to meet him at the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel at dawn if she won. “I told her to bring the Oscar. I always wanted to capture what it felt like the next day. Not the image you’d see in the papers of the star holding up the award with all the lights and cameras, but I wanted to capture the moment it all sinks in, that your asking price has just skyrocketed and you can have any role in the world. I wanted to capture the morning after”

Kate Moss in a black bodystocking, 1993

The image references his shot of Marianne Faithfull almost 30 years earlier

Terry O’Neill, January 2019

O’Neill was awarded a CBE for services to photography in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours. He said it was “a huge honour. And I’m incredibly humbled by it. It’s a real recognition for the art of photography, as well. This isn’t just for me of course, it’s for everyone who has helped me along the way. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart”