MUMBAI: Music photographer Jim Marshall who for over half a century captured music legends like Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, passed away at the age of 74 on Wednesday.

Marshall died at a hotel in New York which hosted one of his last exhibits. The rock photographer who has over 500 album covers to his credit was the favored lens man of various music legends including Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Rolling Stones and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

He took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians in candid moments including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, 1969's Woodstock, where as an official photographer he captured The Who tearing up the stage at sunrise and Johnny Cash "flipping the bird" at a 1969 performance at San Quentin prison.

He also was the only photographer granted backstage access at what turned out to be the final Beatles concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in 1966.

Marshall's work has appeared in numerous books, including four featuring only his own photographs. "Match Point," the most   recent one in collaboration with Timothy White, was published this month.