Ian Brown: "I’d driven up for a Rockin’ On shoot and I’d heard on the
radio that they were painting a street in Moss Side pink. It was meant
to be done in the hotel but we wanted to do something more interesting.
I told him about the pink street and asked him if he was up for going,
he said 'go for it'. He gave copies to all the kids in the photo."
Lawrence Watson's new book The World is Yours, in conjunction with Adidas's 60th anniversary, is published in June 2009, £25.