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Sting and Paul McCartney, 1989. McCartney said he would like to be the author of a song like Fields of Gold
Sting nickname stuck to the musician due to his younger years’ performances in a bee costume (check one those photos below). Well, not precisely a bee, but still wearing a sweater with black and yellow stripes.
By the way, another gifted kid, Neil Tennant, co-founder of the Pet Shop Boys duo, went to the same school with Sting. Neil was only three grades younger.
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Young Sting in the photo that gave him the nickname for the rest of his life
On October 2, 1951, the singer was born in the north of England in Wallsend’s port city. Like many yet-not-famous-rock-stars, he has tried a million professions: bus conductor, football coach, English teacher. There was a time when he was a tax collector. It was the worst job, according to Sting.
Sting and The Police trio in New York, 1978
In the beginning, Sting shared his popularity with two bandmates from The Police. The band released their first album in 1978, and it also featured the early hit “Roxanne” (which was initially born not as a reggae song at all, but as a lullaby for a baby).
The Police
The Police have always appeared in public in the form of ash blondes. And this image has a bright background!
In 1977, the gum manufacturer Wrigley commissioned a commercial and hired a little-known English director, Ridley Scott. The video required an unnamed rock band with dazzling blonde hair. The unknown guys from The Police agreed to participate. The advertisement did not hit the air, but the group decided to use the white-haired image during their performances.
Sting (center) during the game in the Last Exit group, the mid-70s
Sting had a chance to play chess with Garry Kasparov. He took part in a show match against the grandmaster in 2000 in New York. It was a simultaneous session. It took Kasparov fifty minutes to beat all five.
Madonna, Sting, Tupac, 1994. Three people with a one-word nickname at once.
Sting is a remarkable actor. He starred in Dune, The Bride (he played Dr. Frankenstein there), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and, of course, ‘Lock, Stock, Two Barrels.’
And his first film work was the role in the semi-cult drama “Quadrophenia” in 1979, based on the British band’s album The Who (and not a musical at all).
Sting also starred in the 1989 Broadway show ‘The Threepenny Opera.’
Sting with Gianni and Donatello Versace and Elton John. Sting is one of the patrons of the AIDS Foundation, which Elton founded.
Every reference book and Wikipedia will tell you that Sting’s full name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner. However, Sting himself does not associate himself with this name in any way. Back in 1985, a journalist called the musician Gordon in an interview. Sting immediately replied: “My children call me Sting, my mother calls me Sting. Who the fuck is Gordon?”
Two Stings in one photo. Guess who is a musician and who is a wrestler?
Unlike most successful bands that fell apart at their peak due to squabbling and irreconcilable ambition, The Police had a very different case. It’s just that the time has come.
Sting recalled that on August 18, 1983, they performed at the legendary New York stadium Shea (where The Beatles themselves played at the height of Beatlemania). And right during the show, the artist felt that he had conquered Everest. There is no higher mountain to climb. Therefore, The Police were paused, without an official disband.
However, other musicians look at the situation a little differently, assuring that, in any case, they are tired of Sting.
Early photos of Sting and The Police, 1977
The award-winning American wrestling star Stephen James Borden also has a nickname Sting. Interestingly, he claimed it earlier than a musician did. Therefore, when Sting had to buy the rights for the pseudonym from the wrestler.
It is Sting who sings, “I want my MTV” in Dire Straits’s “Money for Nothing.” From now on, you will listen to this song in a completely different way, sorry.
Sting doesn’t want to be featured in a biopic, as is actively encouraged these days. “I am absolutely against it. I don’t want that. I already describe my life through art. “
And Sting doesn’t want his many children to inherit a $ 400 million inheritance. According to the musician, for them, it will become a yoke around their necks. Besides, Sting hopes to spend all this money in full!
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]]>Rock music history starts with these photos. All these rock bands became popular in a year or two after these photos were made. And all of them had hundreds if not thousands of stylish photoshoots then, with professional lights, makeup, and expensive cameras involved. But not on these pictures, which are not even credited because they were made by the band’s friends or relatives when they didn’t believe that photo heroes will become world-famous.
Even more music history photos!
On many of these music history photos of the bands you used to listen to, you’ll find unknown faces, even if you used to think that you know rock music well. Don’t be surprised: bandmembers joined and departed, the lineup changed often. For example, the initial lead vocalist of The Queen left the band because he didn’t believe that Jon Taylor and Brian May will ever produce a good song. He switched to the jazz band instead and finished his musical career a few
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years later. The Rolling Stones started as a band of five members, while you may know them as quartets. The Pink Floyd starts with Sid Barret as a vocalist, who left the band after Gilmore joined the team. Now this history of rock music stays in photos.
And there’s one thing which connects all these music history photos: integrity—a pure young-hood, raw talents, without layers added by popularity, producers, and labels.
Read more: 20 Rare pictures from UK tour of Bob Dylan in 1965 and 1966
AC\DC, 1978: This photo was taken in Sydney, 5 years after the band was founded, and two years before their first hit album “Highway to hell.” Vocalist and song co-writer Bon Scott is still here: he’ll pass away in two years because of alcohol poisoning.
This photo of AC\DC looks even younger. Circa 1969
Aerosmith, 1973: This photo in New York was taken a few months after its first album release. Originally formed in Boston, the band recorded their song “Dream on” in NYC this year.
Black Sabbath, 1970: band released two albums in 1970th: “Black Sabbath” and “Paranoid.” This photo was taken between records sessions. Though it received a negative critical response, the album was a commercial success, leading to Paranoid’s follow-up record.
Deep Purple, 1968: this photo was made in May, in London, where bandmates recorded their debut album. It will top the UK chart and hit the 4th position in the US in just four months.
Depeche Mode, 1981: originally founded by Michael Gore and Andy Fletcher in 1977, the band changed its name several times until they gained David Gahan in 1980, and recorded their first album “Speak and spell” in 1981, which brought Depeche Mode on the top of the new wave.
And this photo of Depeche Mode. Dave Gahan is so young…
Kiss, 1973: The started as Wicked Lester but renamed to “Kiss” in 1973 when guitarist Ace Frehley joined the band. The most bizarre photos in the rock history of the 70s picture this band.
Metallica, 1983: the band was formed in Los Angeles in late 1981 when Danish-born drummer Lars Ulrich placed an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper, The Recycler, which read, “Drummer looking for other metal musicians to jam with Tygers of Pan Tang, Diamond Head, and Iron Maiden.”Guitarists James Hetfield and Hugh Tanner of Leather Charm answered the advertisement.
It may seem that this photo of Metallica was taken during their school years.
Pink Floyd, 1968: the tipping point time of the band. David Gilmour has already joined them, and Syd Barret hasn’t left yet. In several months Barret will depart for the solo career, and Gilmour will lead Floyd to its golden age.
Red Hot Chilly Peppers, 1984: formed by classmates at Fairfax High School in 1983, the band consisted of singer Anthony Kiedis, guitarist Hillel Slovak, bassist Flea, and drummer Jack Irons. Los Angeles never received such love from a single rock band since The Doors times.
Sex Pistols, 1977: This photo was made in the mid-1977 when Sid Vicious has replaced Glen Matlock. Genius managed by Malcolm McLaren, the band has a bombshell effect, changing the rock landscape forever. “Rock is sick and lives in London” was a headline for a cover story in the Rolling Stone magazine covering Sex Pistols phenomena.
Another early photo of The Sex Pistols
The Beatles, 1957: Sir Paul McCartney is 15 on this photo, brought by parents to participate in a no-name band performance somewhere in Liverpool. Rock music history starts with this photo.
U2, 1979: In 1976, Larry Mullen Jr., then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, Ireland, posted a note on the school’s notice board in search of musicians a new band. Six people responded and met at his house on 25 September. Set up in the kitchen, Mullen was on drums, with Paul Hewson (“Bono”) on lead vocals; David Evans (“the Edge”) and his older brother Dik Evans on guitar; Adam Clayton, a friend of the Evans brothers, on bass guitar;
And this U2 photo
Van Halen, 1972: Edie Van Halen formed his band in 1971, and took him 10 years to become one of the most popular and influential rock groups in the US. If Mozart was alive in the 20th century, his name was Van Halen, The Roling Stone magazine wrote at the beginning of the 80s.
Rolling Stones, 1962: it’s their first performance ever. So many albums, titles, and outsold concerts lay before them. How can you imagine music history without this photo?
Young members of The Rolling Stones
The Doors, 1965: the band was formed this year, and believe it or not, not so many rock performers were brave enough to list a keyboardist among the bandmembers. Ray Manzarek was such a keyboardist. A genius behind Jim Morrisson’s charisma who fueled the band’s success.
The Police, 1977: The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For most of their history, the line-up consisted of primary songwriter Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar), and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion). The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Emerging in the British new wave scene, they played a rock style influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. Considered one of the Second British Invasion leaders of the U.S., in 1983, Rolling Stone labeled them “the first British New Wave act to a breakthrough in America on a grand scale, and possibly the biggest band the world.
The Smiths
The Prodigy
The Cure
SODOM
Sepultura
R.E.M.
Napalm Death
Mayhem
Manic Street Preachers
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Green Day
Def Leppard
Bee Gees
Beastie Boys
Anthrax
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The clashed of mods and rockers in the UK is an integral part of Rock music history. Oldpics published a noteworthy picture of the famous beach fight between mods in rockers in 1964. Here’s why we decided to dig dipper and publish some more excellent photos of this music and cultural phenomenon.
Historical aspect
So, we’re talking about the so-called generation of Baby boomers who just experienced their teenage rebellion. Those post-war kids bothered about their freedom and chance to change the world much more then their parents did.
The rock music popularity gained its strengths, and the youth split onto two primary social groups: mods and rockers. The mods were the sons of the style. They preferred R’n’B, and sophisticated psychedelic rock wore skinny ties and suits. Mods liked fancy scooters too and enhanced them the way that only Xibit could do. The rockers were the tough guys; leather jackets, greased hair, and heavy motorcycles.
The Easter war of Mods and Rockers
On Easter weekend in 1964, the small clashes turned into a massive stand-off. The hottest battles emerged at the beaches of Brighton and Margate. Hundreds of teenagers crowded the resort areas for a reckless fight.
Social researcher Stanley Cohen will call it a moral panic later. The confrontation was ignited by media and officials, who forecast the clashes all around the UK. It seems like everyone who read the newspapers during those days had a feeling that the war between mods and rockers is inevitable. The sociologist believes that many of the fights could never happen if the media didn’t spread the youth’s anxiety.
Let’s cite the words of the 18-year-old John Braden: “Yes, I am a Mod, and I was at Margate. I’m not ashamed of it − I wasn’t the only one. I joined a few of the fights. It was a laugh. I haven’t enjoyed myself so much for a long time. It was great − the beach was like a battlefield. It was like we were taking over the country. You want to hit back at all the old geezers who try to tell us what to do. We want to show them we’re not going to take it.”
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This mod geared his scooter in a special way!
These young ladies represent Mods and Rockers camps. And it wasn’t a catfight in any sense.
The famous brawl at the Brighton beach. The mods were victorious on that day.
Police tried to split mods and rockers so that they stopped fighting. In some cases, the most aggressive individuals (in this photo it’s rocker) were forced to quit the ramble.
Mounted police officer pacifying the crowd of mods.
Ungraded scooters were a special thing for mods.
Rockers enjoy a soda at a roadside cafe.
Interestingly, how several light-armed policemen could calm so numerous ready-to-fight crowd.
Splitting two aggressive social groups.
The most aggressive mods and rockers could spend a few days under arrest.
This bruised and beaten mod wants back to the fight.
Mods on scooters ride down the streets of England.
The brawls had limited time. It seems like there were no mass fights after the daily sessions.
It’s a brawl time!
No surprise, Mods preferred fashion pipes to cigarettes.
There’s no land for an old man when rockers and mods brawl.
A risky move: this rocker uses the mirror on a mod’s scooter to brush his hair.
The best illustration of how different bike outlook could be.
A rocker and his girlfriend pose for a Life Magazine photographer, leaning against their bike.
This mod will spend several days under arrest.
A short break between the fights.
Police officers pulling the most aggressive mod out of the fight.
A mod and a rocker come to blows in the middle of the street.
Mod pack riding their bikes.
A mod party on the scooter!
A group of rockers relaxes on a bench.
Mods could retreat the battle too.
Leather jackets, heavier bikes… Rockers!
This bike is a fancy one!
A crowd swarms to join a massive fist-fight on the beach.
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By 1946, Frank Sinatra was such famous that trend sculptor Jo Davidson agreed to create a singer’s bronze bust. Well, not a real bronze one, but covered with this metal. Nonetheless, many people dreamt of posing for Jo Davidson.
In this photo, Frank Sinatra posing at the studio of famous Sculptor Jo Davidson in New York.
One of the most famous sculptures, the bust of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is in the background. We are not sure if FDR’s figure appeared thereby accidentally, but we quite sure that it inspired Sinatra. The singer was a huge Democratic Party fan until his split with John Kennedy. Nowadays, this bust of Roosevelt is set at Four Freedoms Park, NYC.
Frank Sinatra will present this sculpture to Joel Pacilio. This young lady was the head of the one of the Sinatra’s Fan Clubs. To be more precise, the one in upstate New York. An interesting one that Frank Sinatra and Joel Pacilio became friends much earlier than his career skyrocketed. The girl recognized his talent much earlier than Frank became a superstar.
Check out more rare photos of young Frank Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra and his accomplished bust, 1946
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Bob Dylan had a very special relationship with the UK audience during this important period. He usually hit the top 10 in the British Billboard while staying at much lower US positions.
Here’s why Bob Dylan performed a lot in the UK. The first public concert in England was on May 17, 1964. He was a frequent guest in London’s Royal Albert Hall and other UK concert locations during the next few years.
The pictures of that tour of Bob Dylan hit our publication Rock music photo history of the 60s in 33 pictures
On November 22, 1965, the musician married Sarah Lowndes. Bob Dylan did not make his marriage public for some time until February 1966 when Post published a headline “Tsss! Bob Dylan is married! “
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The UK performances of 1966 were a part of the World Tour. He split each concert into two parts. In the first, Dylan performed solo, accompanying the songs with an acoustic guitar and harmonica. In the second half, supported by “Hawks,” he played electrified music.
During his European tour, Dylan performs in Paris on the largest hall, “Olympia,” decorated with a giant American flag.
On July 29, 1966, Bob Dylan drove a motorcycle from New York to his home in Woodstock and had an accident. He put the performances on pause for many months, stopped all communication with the press.
Read more: All Pulitzer Prize photos (1942-1967)
Reading Disc Magazine with Mick Jagger on the cover, Odeon Theatre, Birmingham, England.
The spirit of Rock Music History of the 1960s. Leaving the betting office, Sheffield, England, 1966.
With kids in Liverpool.
Bob Dylan looked happy in Sheffield in 1966
Soundcheck in Royal Albert Hall, London.
Golden hands.
A brilliant shot for the Music History!
Backstage, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1965
Aust Ferry, Bristol, England 1966
After dinner, Birmingham, England, 1966
A rainy day, Bristol, England, 1966
Bob Dylan, The Giant, Liverpool, England, 1966
Bob Dylan, Strangers in the top ten Birmingham, England, 1966
Paranoid Birmingham, England, 1966
Bob Dylan reading Melody Maker with John Mayall looking on London.
Bob Dylan in the train from Dublin to Belfast, 1966
The hotel hallway, Cardiff, Wales, 1966
Bob Dylan in front of betting office, Sheffield, England.
In the doorway, Liverpool, England, 1966
Looking down the street at children, Liverpool, England, 1966
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Sinatra’s solo career has begun, 1943
This set of Frank Sinatra rare photos captures his early 40s period. The 40s was the most defining decade in Frank Sinatra’s career. He started to work on a radio station WNEW (New York) and married Nancy Barbato. Very soon their daughter Nancy Jr will be born and Frank will start his musical career with Harry James.
In this period Nancy Sinatra was both wife and muse for Frank. She guided a young talent and never hesitated that he’ll become a great singer.
Sinatra cooperated with Harry James for around half a year, and then he decided to join the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey. That was a point of the explosive growth in his career. Dorsey’s orchestra remained very popular all over across the US, and their main ingredient was Sinatra’s vocal from 1940 through 1942.
Also, Frank Sinatra started his movie career in the early 40s. He participated in his first two movies — Las Vegas Nights (1941) and Ship Ahoy (1942). Maybe, it was the orchestra’s and actor’s success that lifted Frank to the next level, where he began his solo career at the end of 1942 and continued his rocketship rise.
Read more: Historic friendship of Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy
Painting a chair with daughter Nancy Sinatra
They’ll top the charts with their song “Somethin’ stupid” in 23 years, but they knew household duties too
Sinatra always was a style icon. All his suits were perfectly sewed.
In WNEW radio station office, 1939
Among Tommy Dorsey orchestra members
Sinatra had pretty average heights, but he liked playing basketball a lot.
This photo was made in the singer’s NY apartment (1939). There were times when you could meet Frank in the grocery while buying milk
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Recording in CBS studio, 1943
Softball team Swooners player, 1947
This photo was taken in Los Angeles, where musician played in a softball team, the Swooners, and also belongs to Frank Sinatra rare photos. Usually, his opponents were other celebrities (from CBS Television group). He played second base in a lineup that included manager Hank Sanicola, actors Anthony Quinn and Barry Sullivan and songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. They even had their own cheerleaders: Virginia Mayo, Marilyn Maxwell, Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. Sinatra Family Archive.
Behind the scenes: It happened in Brooklyn
“It Happened in Brooklyn” movie was filmed in March 14, 1947. Frank co-starred with Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford in MGM’s It Happened in Brooklyn, which began filming in Los Angeles. He won critical praise for his performance as an ex-soldier returning home to civilian life after World War II, and he sang seven songs. Among them: “Time After Time.” According to Newsweek, “Sinatra becomes a smoother performer every time out.”
Read more: Frank Sinatra’s Arrest, New Jersey, 1938
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Mick Jagger’s party at St.Regis Roof made some noise back on July 26th, 1972, and was covered even by the New York Times paper. Keith Richards and Bob Dylan are on this photo too, but they were not the only celebrities present at this party. The guest list consisted of various celebrities of that time: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Steve Wonder, Andy Warhol, Huntington Hartford, George Plimpton, Diana Vreeland, Oscar de la Renta, Clyde Newhouse, Tennessee Williams, Woody Allen, Andrea Portago, Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest and Mrs. Jacob K. Davits. Whom else do you need to make this Mick Jagger birthday photo commandable for history book?
The party was a finalizing accord to Stone’s performance on Madison Square Garden on that day. This concert was the last one in the big US tour of the band. The popularity of the Rolling Stones was so huge that the crowd paid around $3 million dollars to attend this final event.
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Jagger’s birthday party was brought by Ahmed Ertegun, president of Atlantic Records – company that was selling band’s records in the US, and thus made a lot of money with their music.
Mick and his wife Bianca arrived at 2 A.M.: they brought a gorgeous 5-foot cake, a second sweet of the day (the first one was presented to the crowd during the concert). There were some more pictures besides this Mick Jagger birthday photo but none survived to our day.
Insiders claim that all expenses of that concert and the party came to $800,000. Now take $3‐ million revenues, and The Rolling Stones had to divide $2 million among the band, 14‐ man technical crew, musicians, stagehands, business representatives, and the rest of their entourage. Not bad, taking to account that in the early 70s houses cost much less than today.
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Jimmy Page said once that rock’n’roll music and whiskey are inseparable. And it really was so for a musician, and the whole Led Zeppelin band, in during their glorious 1975 US tour. The huge tour success was pictured by the Rolling Stone magazine that called this period“ A Year of Led Zeppelin”.
That’s a real story of the rock music of the mid-70s. Jimmy page is drinking whiskey, someone near the taper can be heard saying “this is gonna be so good” just before Rock and Roll crashes into motion. Plant has completely lost his voice. Unable to sing a single note, he literally growls his way through the opening numbers. A cut during “The Song Remains the Same” leaves us at the end of the first verse of “The Rain Song.” The song is plagued by feedback problems. Following “Kashmir,” Plant tells the crowd “we’re havin’ a little bit of trouble here with the monitor system… I think there’s some crushed window pane stuck in the speaker.” He improvises an entirely new melody during the final performance of “The Wanton Song” to accommodate his painfully weak voice.
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Jones is introduced as “the man in constant darkness” before “No Quarter.” A few slight cuts detract from an otherwise fantastic instrumental section. Unfortunately, Page’s guitar solo is cut near the end. Little more than the intro and outro of “Moby Dick” survives. “How Many More Times” is introduced as “a very, very, very, very old one.” Unfortunately, a cut in the tape during the lead-in to the bow solo leaves us at the final “gun!”, skipping the majority of the song. Page’s intro to “Stairway to Heaven” is missing from the tape. His fingers get a bit sticky during the guitar solo. As the band returns to the stage, Plant tells the crowd “we’re gonna try and go out with a bit of style.” Page shreds through an extended guitar solo during the show-closing “Black Dog.”
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]]>Rock history doesn’t start in the 60s, but it was a time when it seemed to reach its eclipse. Many of those glory moments were pictured by photographers, and some of their works you’ll find below.
Beatles in Limo, 1964
How can we start Rock music photo history of 60s without The Beatles? It was their first tour of the US and Canada. Lucky young photographer Curt Gunther took The Beatles photos in Europe and was invited to picture brit’s tour by Lennon himself. He spent all the tour time with a band, lived, and traveled with them and As such, he traveled and lived with the band and thus was a happy witness of something which will be later called Liverpool phenomena. The negative of this photo was found by Curt’s son Steve after his death. The story says that the father-photographer gave his suitcase with photos and negatives to son before death to encourage him to continue his photo craft. Many priceless gems were found in that suitcase…
Credits: Curt Gunther
The Beatles, Perthshire, Scotland 1964
This photo was taken at the hotel in Perthshire, Scotland. According to Ringo Starr, it was a cloudy and windy winter day, but the receptionist offered bandmembers sun umbrellas for reasons unknown. It seemed funny to bandmates and John Lennon decided to use them for a photoshoot which was planned for this day.
Credits: Robert Whitaker
Janis Joplin, Newport Folk Festival, 1968
Janis Joplin visited the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, in July 1968. The festival was pretty popular and supposed to gather ‘modern genre’s musicians’. It was a ninth year in a row when this even attracted thousands of fans from all over the US. David Gahr pictured a classic look of Janis: famous glasses, headwear, cigarette, and alcohol nearby. Once asked by a reporter about her attendance at this event Joplin said: “ It was too hot and I was too stoned to remember anything”.
Credits: David Gahr
Janis Joplin on stage, Newport Folk Festival 1968
Janis insisted that her performance should be moved to late night as it was too hot for her in July 1968 to set a good show in the daytime. Well, it’s a part of the Rock music photo history of 60s.
Credits: David Gahr
Bob Dylan, England 1966
The UK was a homeland for many iconic bands of the 60s, but brits admired the US rockers as well. Bob Dylan was one of them, and you can check how fans were following a young star in this picture. It was taken in London, upon Bob’s arrival to the city where he planned several performances. Barry Feinstein was the official photographer for several of Dylan’s tours and was not a surprise that some of the iconic photos of this period belong to his portfolio. Dylan protected his privacy and had a reputation for the musician who doesn’t like the reporters and photoshoots. However, he made an exclusion for Feinstein’s camera. At this picture Bob is looking calm, while fans are literally infiltrating the car.
Credits: Barry Feinstein
Bob Dylan, a scene from DONT LOOK BACK, 1965
Photos taken from the film DONT LOOK BACK about Dylan’s tour in London in 1965. The film itself was recognized by critics as one of the best music documentaries. Movie’s director Pennebaker said that the title came from the Satchel Paige quote, “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you,” and that Dylan shared this view. Dylan also used this title in his song “She belongs to me”.
Credits: D A Pennebaker
Wilson Pickett, Madison Square Garden, 1969
It’s hard to imagine the R’n’B scene of the 60s without Wilson Pickett. And you’ll never underestimate his contribution to this genre. Picket was particularly popular in NY, which resulted in many performances with full sold outs. His “Land of 1,000 Dances”, “Mustang Sally”, and “Funky Broadway” topped the Billboard charts and won’t be forgotten.
The Doors, Morrison Hotel, Los Angeles, 1969
There’s no way how you could know this small hotel in Downtown LA on Hope Street without this photo. Surprisingly, the hotel administration didn’t allow a photoshoot, despite the band’s popularity. Photographer Henry Diltz says that Jim wanted this photo in one way or another. So they had to stay at lobby, wait until the receptions leaves his desk and quickly run outside to take a photo. When they did so administration forced them to leave the Morrison hotel immediately. Later Jim Morrison decided to use this photo for an album cover and it still stays in Rock music photo history of 60s.
Credits: Henry Diltz
The Doors, Venice Beach, CA, 1969
Which band loves California the most? Red Hot Chilly Peppers? Maybe, but it was The Doors’ territory in 60s. And they loved the iconic Venice Beach Boardwalk the most too. According to Ray Manzarek many The Doors songs were either written or inspired by this place.
The palm trees in the background are perfectly framed by Robby and Ray, and the calm and collected looks on their faces exude an aura of confidence of a band completely in their prime.
This picture became a poster for award-winning director Tom DiCillo’s film on The Doors: probably the best movie to understand the whole life and the truth behind the success of the quartet.
Credits: Henry Diltz
Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, 1967
This photo was influenced by the groundbreaking The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. At least visually. In many ways, The Rolling Stones competed with Liverpool’s band. And their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request was a response to SPLHCB album. Even the photographer was the same, and Mick Jagger asked him to create the same visual effect for this shoot.
The album itself had mixed critics, but the visual part was tremendous. According to photographer Michael Cooper, it had to be was a fantastical 3-dimensional image. He told Jagger that only one camera in one studio can do this, meaning the Mount Vernon Studios in New York City. The band booked a studio for only two days, in September, with a condition that no crew will assist them due to day-offs.
Credits: Michael Cooper
Rolling Stones, 1967
Another Rolling’s iconic photo. Without this picture, we can’t imagine the history of the rock. The band started with Chuck Berry’s “Come on” in June, 1963 and continued with a pure hit “I wanna be your man”. The band was well known in the US by the beginning of 1967 when this photo was made. They’ve just made their appearance at CBS Ed Sullivan’s show where they performed “Let’s spend some time together”. Time later after this photoshoot Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and then Jones, were charged in the first big drug arrests in British rock.
Сredits: Michael Cooper
Jimi Hendrix, Hollywood, CA 1967
The Hollywood Bowl attracted thousands of fans and the best musicians. This photo was taken on the backstage of the event, where Jimi Hendrix is waiting until The Mamas and Papas finish their performance. His show is the following. The performance itself wasn’t as significant as his anthem at Woodstock, but according to many critics, Jimmi has stolen the show that night.
Сredits: Henry Diltz
Jimi Hendrix playing “The Star Spangled Banner” at Woodstock, NY 1969
Every music fan should know this photo. Taken on Monday morning around 6 am. The initial plan was to give Hendrix a Sunday night scene slot, but due to transportation mess, he didn’t come on until Monday morning. Photographer was allowed to stand at the stage and take photos, which were destined to become iconic.
Henry Diltz said, that it was real bizarre and psychedelic. The key point was when Jimi started playing the Star-Spangled Banner. He started to put the sound effects in: machine guns, planes dive-bombing – utterly amazing.
Read more: Woodstock 1969: 3 Days of Peace& Music
Credits: Henry Diltz
James Taylor and Old Truck, Lake Hollywood, CA 1969
Henry Diltz photoed this picture on the same day hi did the Sweet Baby James album cover. James Taylor will receive his first Grammy award for this album, which will be followed by another four during the next decade. But who could know it when this photo was taken?
Credits: Henry Diltz
The Dirty Mac: Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards 1969
The super-groups, which consist of different bands’ members, always occupied a special place in fans’ hearts. Some admire such groups music, some take it as treason to their main bands. ‘The Dirty Mac’ was one of the first super-groups. It was a one-time pure English team consisting of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Mitch Mitchell. The overall initiative belonged to Lennon who proposed put musicians together for the Rolling Stones’ TV special titled The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.
Credits: Ethan Russell
The Who, Monterey International Pop Music Festival, CA 1967
By the middle of 1967 The Who was supposed to be one of Top 3 Rock bands in the UK. But at the same time almost unknown in US. They performed in the New World for the first time in June 1967 at The Monterey International Pop Music Festival. Americans never experienced the rockers who smash their instruments (and not only them) during the performance until The Who showed them what rock explosion means. The guy on the left is the sound engineer trying to rescue the expensive microphones.
Credits: Henry Diltz
The Who, Woodstock, NY, 1969
The Who during performing t at Woodstock Music Festival. Minutes after this moment Pete Townshend started smashing his guitar on stage. Some critics compared their performance with hockey matches: You’re visiting them to watch the game, but you want to watch the players punching each other faces too.
Credits: Henry Diltz
Neil Young, ‘White Falcon,’ Balboa Stadium, San Diego, CA 1969
Neil Young performing with CSNY at Balboa Stadium in San Diego, California playing his infamous Gretsch guitar, the ‘White Falcon.’
Credits: Henry Diltz
Neil Young in the car, 1969
Neil was born in Canada but he moved to California after he started his musical career. His guitar work, deeply personal lyrics, and signature tenor singing voice define his long career. You’ll never say that guy from this photo will win 5 Grammy awards in his lifetime.
Credits: Henry Diltz
The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man Album Cover Shot, 1965
The Byrds are often considered as influential as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It’s hard to overstate their importance for both folk-rock and country-rock. Producing a remarkable body of work between 1965 and 1968, The Byrds were noteworthy for their spirit of innovation and adventure. Presenting the substantial challenge to the popularity of The Beatles in the mid-60s, The Byrds recorded Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” and transformed his acoustic guitar sound to the into rock adaptation.
Credits: Barry Feinstein
Jefferson Airplane, NYC, 1968
The whole idea of this photoshoot belonged to photographer Art Kane. He tried to create a feeling of a ‘flying band’ with an ‘air sound’. He constructed this setting with plexi cubes (which cost him $3000). The photograph was taken in Queens, NYC, just south of the 59th Street bridge and across the East River from the United Nations, at a gypsum factory that lends a bizarre and almost lunar landscape. This location was replaced with commercial buildings later, so this landmark is gone forever. This album cover belongs to the Top100 best album designs according to the Rolling Stones magazine.
Credits: Art Kane
Led Zeppelin, 1969
Essentially formed in 1968, Led Zeppelin recorded their debut album, Vanilla Fudge, pretty quickly and had to follow it up with US tour according to the agreement with Atlantic records. This photo was made during this tour, at the Texas Pop Music Festival. Their debut album became an instant bestseller and stayed in album charts for two years.
Credits: Jay Dickman
The Monkees & Jack Nicholson, 1968
The Monkees was a first group which consisted of movie actors. The band was created through auditions conducted by NBC television in September 1965. Mickey Dolenz had been a child actor, appearing in the series Circus Boy, and Davy Jones was a horse jockey in a different show. So it wasn’t surprising that the Monkees combined musical performance with shooting a movie about themselves. One of those movies, “Head”, was filmed in Salt Lake City. This picture was taken in their dressing room at The Valley Music Hall. Jack Nicholson was a writer and producer of the movie.
Credits: Henry Diltz
The Animals, Newcastle upon Tyne, England 1964
The Animals was one of the most popular British rock bands of the mid-60s. Their popularity faded after the departure of Alan Price, but in 1964 they were on top. These photos were taken when the band arrived back in England from their first USA tour. All they wanted was a decent cup of tea.
Credits: Ian Wright
Frank Zappa and Captain Beefhart, 1969
Frank Zappa musical creations always stayed in the underground niche. The debut album of the Mothers of Invention, which was masterminded by Zappa, unique for the rock landscape of the 60s. Zappa and his band flaunted the standard path to international success. Their special ingredient was the on-stage performance which looked like the first instance of calculated theatrics in rock.
Credits: Barrie Wentzell
Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, CA 1968
Zappa was always known for his eccentric reputation, and that’s was the reason why both concert producers and photographers avoided dealing with him. Baron Walman was one of them. ‘I knew I could take great pictures but I knew that I couldn’t keep up with his mind’, Walman said. Zappa didn’t want to spend any extra hour on a photoshoot, and he insisted to take the pictures right away, just behind his house. The landscape and the setting looked bizarre, and the photographer even didn’t need to say or do anything extra.
Credits: Baron Wolman
Iggy Pop, NYC, 1969
Iggy Pop started his musical career as a vocal part of the Stooges band. At this photo, he’s recording their first album. Surprisingly, Iggy is not half-naked at this photo, unlike his signature performances of later years. But Rock music photo history of 60s remembers him as on this photo.
Credits: Glen Craig
Jerry Garcia, San Francisco, CA 1966
Jerry Garcia grew up in San Francisco and Menlo Park, obtaining his first guitar when he was fifteen years old. He dropped high school, served in the army, and then finally got back to the bay area to take up his banjo and start creating signature folk sound. He won an amateur bluegrass contest at the Monterey Folk festival in 1963 and that the beginning of the great folk music story of the 60s.
Credits: Herb Greene
The Velvet Underground, Los Angeles, CA 1966
The Velvet Underground was famous not only for their unique sound but for their on-stage performances which were inspired by Andy Warhol (he designed the light show). The show was called the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, which speaks for itself.
Credits: Lisa Law
Pink Floyd 1967
They redefined the rock sound of the whole generation in the mid-70s with their Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall, but Pink Floyd was founded in 1965 and during the first years of existence they earned a reputation of psychedelic space heady moodscapers. Not everyone remembers that in their salad days the original frontman was Syd Barrett, and David Gilmour joined the band few years later.
Credits: Baron Wolman
Syd Barrett & Record Player 1969
Syd left Pink Floyd for the sole career in 1969. This photo was take in his apartment, Wetherby Mansions, London, where he was working on his first album “The Madscap Luaghs”.Despite the fact that he worked with four producers while assembling the record, it received mixed reviews and pushed Syd even further into the grim drug world.
Credits: Mick Rock
The Grateful Dead, San Francisco, CA 1967
This photo was made during the preparation of a long story for the first issue of the Rolling Stone magazine. Photographer Baron Wolman remembers that, the cops came into the band’s house and arrested several of them. The entire band wasn’t at home at the time so the cops couldn’t bust them all or they would have. After the press conference, Jann Wenner, co-founder of Rolling Stone, asked me to get a group shot of the band on the steps of their house. I suggested they pose for me outside. They asked me, “Who are you?” I said, “I’m Baron from Rolling Stone.” They replied, “What’s Rolling Stone?” The band members didn’t know what Rolling Stone was, the first issue had yet to be published, so it was really hard to get them to cooperate; at that point I think most of them didn’t even know who I was. When they came out, they wouldn’t settle down, pointed their guns this way and that, flipped me the bird, threatened to kill me. It was all great fun for them but at the moment not for me. In the end I did get one great shot. I call it “Dead On The Steps.” And so ended my first real assignment for Rolling Stone.
Credits: Baron Wolman
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Elvis Presley was drafted into the US Army in 1957 and started his service in March 1958 when he was 23 years old. His friends and everyone who knew him well stating that Elvis was never been the same after those 2 years in the army.
He refused all offers of special ‘conditions and treatment’ made by the administration, including the Navy proposal of establishing an “Elvis Presley company”. He wanted just to serve as everyone else did in the army. And here’s how King became a soldier first, reaching the sergeant rank upon the ending of his military career.
You know him as a King. But he also was a sergeant
“People were expecting me to mess up, to goof up in one way or another. They thought I couldn’t take it and so forth, and I was determined to go to any limits to prove otherwise. Not only to the people who were wondering but to myself,” that was Elvis said about his decision.
Elvis was offered $78 a month on top of another $1,000 from his record company, and let’s not forget that he supposed to be the most famous American by that time.
Oh, and his hair? Despite the best tries from Sen. Clifford P. Case, R-N.J., to save the iconic haircut, it had to go, according to the rules. So he sat down and his ducktail was shaved off.
After 6 months of service, In August 1958, Elvis’s mother Gladys Presley passed away due to a heart attack. Elvis was allowed to go home to Memphis for the funeral. He would later call her death “the great tragedy of his life.” Some researchers of the rockstar life claimed that it was the beginning of the dark years of the King when he started his grim journey of drug addiction.
Read more: A twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presle, 1956
When he returned to Germany from her funeral, Elvis was an example of the perfect serviceman and was promoted to sergeant.
Nobody knows how Elvis’s career could go further if he hadn’t taken the two-year pause in the entertainment industry. His mother still would have died unexpectedly. He still may have discovered the immediate pleasures and long-term destruction of drugs. He might even have slipped out of public view more quickly than he did.
By the end of Presley’s service, he had 10 Top 40 records in his portfolio. His final day of active duty was March 5th, 1960. His time in Germany may not have directly led him to the sad ending that came when he died on a toilet.
The first uniform that Elvis was given, but awaiting the additional pack with trousers to fit his size. Soon Presly was then sent to the military base Fort Hood, Texas, where he was trained as ‘armor unit serviceman’.
Presley was promoted to acting sergeant a day before this photo was taken. He studies himself in the mirror while settling into his military uniform.
Presley sits on the barracks floor as he polishes his shoes. For other inductees are looking on and relaxing on their bunks Ft. Chaffee reception center.
Waving to fans during service in Germany
Elvis Presley army ID
In this photo Presley among several other servicemen during an inspection at Ft. Chaffee.
The photo above shows Presley getting his height measured at 6 1/2 for the pre-induction physical examination.
Presley warming up his hands by the fire, a month prior to his discharge from the military.
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