Prince licking his guitar in Paradiso during his first concert in The Netherlands, Madonna as a complete unknown artist, just before her final breakthrough; these are some of the legendary pictures made by photographer Kees Tabak.
Twenty-five years of pop-history passes by in the documentary ‘No More Heroes’, filmed by Saskia Vredeveld. In the eighties Kees Tabak was one of leading pop photographers in the Netherlands. He had developed himself as a chronicler of the punk movement. He was off course photographing in black and white. But Tabak was not only an observer, he was part of this world himself and a well-known to the Stranglers, the Sex Pistols and The Clash. Most of the international and Dutch pop stars of the eighties appeared in front of his camera. From Dutch musicians as Herman Brood, Andre Hazes and Doe Maar and international stars as Bryan Ferry, Bono, Blondie, Tom Waits, Billy Idol and Lou Reed.