After three years online total hits have now passed the 40 million mark! Take a look at my Portfolio pages.

Home page picture: Debbie Harry, London 1978. Click to see my entry in Wikipedia 'The Free Encyclopedia'.

I've just bought Nikon's new D3 - perfect for live photography, but guess what? It's not yet compatible with Apple's latest software, so I can't see the 1000 photographs I took of Duran Duran last night. Better still, Nikon's professional team have told me that it's my fault for buying their latest model! They might make good cameras but their backward thinking, rude staff, and appalling service doesn't do them (or me, MTV, or Duran Duran) any favours.

America's A&E channel recently interviewed me for a Duran Duran TV documentary running as part of their 'Biography' series. The show will feature around fifty of my photographs. I shot the band once again when they returned to London to play a showcase at The Lyceum - the last time I went there it was to see Queen! The Red Carpet Massacre showcase was great - it was a good night at the Lyceum. After some old times revisited in the world's smallest dressing room we all moved on to a party at the Cuckoo Club.

To mark 40 million hits, this site is soon to undergo a facelift which will include numerous slideshows. A more limited selection of images will be available for sale, and Insites and Portfolio sections are to become all Flash for a more absorbing user experience. A unique collection of images will be available exclusively through Rock Archive, to accompany a massive expansion of my online archive section. Rock Archive and I will also launch an exhibition in 2008 to celebrate my 30 years as a photographer

The weekend after Concert For Diana I photographed Live Earth at Wembley Stadium - Madonna put on a great show, as did Foo Fighters. Surprise of the day for me was Paolo Nutini. Also on the bill were Razorlight, Bloc Party, Kasabian, Duran Duran (again), Genesis, Black Eyed Peas, Pussycat Dolls and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. In keeping with all the outdoor shows I've photographed over the last month (the wettest ever in the UK) the sun was out and rain stayed away.

As official photographer for the Concert For Diana, I photographed Princes William and Harry on the day before the show. On show day David Beckham, Joss Stone, Keifer Sutherland, Lily Allen, P Diddy, Dennis Hopper, Fergie, Take That, Natasha Bedingfield and Duran Duran graced my backstage studio for portraits. Queen Elton however failed to appear. The event at the brand new 90,000 seater Wembley Stadium was so huge that 12,000 seater Wembley Arena was transformed into a backstage area and incredible party venue.

Once again I covered the Download Festival at Donington Park as official photographer. I captured Papa Roach and 30 Seconds To Mars singers Jacoby Shaddix and Jared Leto as they leapt past me into the audience, and shot everyone from My Chemical Romance to Iron Maiden. I was disappointed with Evanescence, and appalled (but not surprised) that Marilyn Manson limited my access to two songs ...

The Coachella Festival in Palm Desert California was hot - 104/40 in the shade on day two! The event has been extended to three days and the photo pit was a shambles, but I managed to shoot 26 bands, including Arctic Monkeys, Bjork, Explosions in The Sky, Rage Against The Machine, Lily Allen, Klaxons, Kooks, Kings Of Leon, Amy Winehouse, Interpol, and Kaiser Chiefs. I stopped off in LA on the way home to have dinner with Duran Duran's John & Roger Taylor at John & Gela's wonderful rambling Hollywood home.

I sold my first ever photograph - a picture of Queen - to Jackie magazine back in 1975. Jackie was the girls' pop weekly of its day, and I filmed an interview with the gorgeous Joanna Lee for a film shown on BBC2 in April, documenting the Jackie phenomenon. In its heyday the magazine sold a million copies a week. Also appearing in the programme was Seventies hearthrob David Cassidy.

In association with the Easy Action label, and their release of Iggy Pop's 'Where The Faces Shine - Volume 1', I can offer a unique limited edition print of Iggy, produced on silver photographic paper - so the black and white image becomes black and silver! Iggy and The Stooges are currently touring Europe.

My pictures have recently featured on a number of magazine covers around the world, such as Queen on a recent issue of the Mexico's Rolling Stone. The March edition of Classic Rock in the UK splashes a very early Thin Lizzy picture of mine on the cover as part of a three month feature. GQ featured The Damned as part of a Punk anniversary article, and a Mojo special David Bowie issue in February reveals a number of my unseen David Bowie pictures from the Eighties, alongside many well known images.

I was granted exclusive access to photograph Kylie Minogue's special New Year's Eve show at Wembley Arena on December 31st. Many of my pictures featured in the national press on New Year's Day, including the Daily Telegraph, Times, Express, Star, and Mirror. My photography is included in 'Kylie: The Exhibition' at the Victoria & Albert Museum from February 8th to June 10th. My Kylie slideshow.

BBC Radio 2's documentary '30 Years Of Punk' features an excerpt where I reveal my 'insights' into life in the mid Seventies. The two part series tells the story of the bands that changed the musical landscape in 1976. Other contributions include John Lydon, Malcolm McLaren, The Clash's Mick Jones, and Howard Devoto.

RIP Patrick Joseph O'Regan, beloved father. Born County Cork July 1926, died Surrey December 2006. 'May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.'

I've recently been shooting hip Brighton rock band The Kooks - named after a David Bowie 'Hunky Dory' track - on their mini tour of London, at The Forum, Astoria, and Shepherd's Bush Empire. A Kooks live slideshow will feature here soon, and their new single 'OOH LA' is out now.

Look out for some of my Iggy Pop pictures (from 1978 at the Music Machine in London) on a new box set now in production - 'Where The Faces Shine' 1977-1981. Each set will include an offer of a unique limited edition print of my favourite Iggy picture, with a certificate of authenticity signed by my own fair hand.

Proud Galleries' Freddie Mercury 60th birthday exhibition opened September 8th. Following its success there, the show travels to Spain & Canada in 2007. Queen's quote: 'The show will feature rare prints from the Queen Archive and exclusive behind the scenes images from such seminal photographers as Denis O'Regan and Richard Young, as well as photographs famously exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall in 1996, an exhibition which has toured the world, travelling from Germany and Switzerland to India and Japan.'

Huge congratulations to my brother Declan and wife Jodie on the birth of their daughter Cecily Ailis - Cecily is the first girl born into the O'Regan family since 1928. Cecily's big brother Cian was born in 2004.

A limited edition book of my live Queen photographs is slated for publication in Spring 2008 by Genesis, the world's leading publisher of signed and numbered limited edition books on modern music. The book will include many previously unpublished pictures, and as with all Genesis editions, a limited number of books are produced in 'deluxe' format.

Peter Framptons' new album 'Fingerprints' includes a bonus DVD comprising documentary footage that I shot of Peter (and friends) recording his new instrumental album. Peter joined forces with members of Pearl Jam in Seattle, and in London hooked up with ex Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, longtime Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, and legendary Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin.

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