PHOTOGRAPHER SUE MICHELSON RELEASES UNIQUE PORTFOLIO OF UNRELEASED CLASSIC 1966 ROLLING STONES CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHSImages from July 25th, 1966 Hollywood Bowl Live Show Now Available For Online Viewing and Select Sales
BURBANK, Calif. – July 20, 2009 – Classic photographs of the Rolling Stones -- images that have never before been seen or published -- will become available to the public for the first time on Saturday, July 25th, 2009, when Studio City, California-based photographer Sue Michelson formally launches her Soul Gallery web site at
http://www.rollingstones1966photos.com to coincide with the forty-third anniversary of the legendary Hollywood concert at which they were taken. Interestingly, the following day, Sunday, July 26th, will be Sir Michael Jagger’s 66th birthday.
The collection of black & white and color photographs was selected from Michelson’s personal archives, culled from a storied career which included stints as the staff photographer for the nationally syndicated radio show Rockline, as well as the Rock ’n’ Roll Tonight television series that was filmed at Hollywood’s famed Palace [now Avalon], while she worked for KLOS-FM.
Michelson’s work has been published in Billboard, Radio & Records, The KLOS-FM Concert Guide, and other print outlets over the decades.
These unique and inspiring Hollywood Bowl images were captured at a legendary concert that featured the Rolling Stones along with the McCoys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Standells. The initial exhibit and offering at the Soul Gallery site will combine these long-hidden Rolling Stones photographs from that summer evening in 1966 with equally unknown black & white pictures of Buffalo Springfield and the Standells, taken on the same evening in the same venue.
Concert Stats and Rare GuitarsSue Michelson’s photos document the Rolling Stones’ performance at a KHJ radio-sponsored Hollywood Bowl concert that included appearances by the station’s promotional mascot, The Big Kahuna.
The Rolling Stones’ sixth (non-compilation) U.S. album, Aftermath, released earlier in 1966, had been produced by Andrew Loog Oldham and engineered by Dave Hassinger at RCA recording studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, just a couple of miles from the Bowl. Aftermath was the first Rolling Stones album on which all songs were written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
The set list from the Stones’ performance at the famed Hollywood Bowl concert was as follows:
- Not Fade Away
- The Last Time
- Paint It Black
- Lady Jane
- Mother’s Little Helper
- Get Off of My Cloud
- 19th Nervous Breakdown
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Sue Michelson’s photos of the Rolling Stones in Hollywood include shots of Brian Jones playing the dulcimer on “Lady Jane,” and onstage close-ups of Mick Jagger during the performance.
These images from the Bowl also show Keith Richards backstage, holding a rare 1950s-era Gibson Les Paul “Gold Top” guitar with the PAF (Patent Applied For) pickups. This was the guitar Keith used on Aftermath, and on the Rolling Stones’ next album, Between the Buttons.
A mere six weeks after the Hollywood Bowl gig, Keith can be seen playing the same Les Paul guitar on the Ed Sullivan television show during the song, "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” and he later played it throughout the subsequent album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, as well.
Michelson’s glimpses of Keith and this specific Gibson guitar are very rare, owing to the fact that Richards then switched to a black custom Les Paul for the Beggars Banquet album and used that guitar on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 and 1970 European tours.
None of these photographs have ever been shown or reprinted before. Sue Michelson is offering limited, numbered, silver-gelatin prints of these images for sale, either individually or as a suite, in print sizes 12 x 16, 16 x 20, or 20 x 24 (all in inches). Web previews are located on the Gallery page of the web site, at
www.rollingstones1966photos.com.
Interested parties may contact Sue Michelson directly for inquiries, prices and terms of sale, either by phone at (818) 377-4561, or by emailing her at
[email protected].
For any additional information about Sue Michelson and the Soul Gallery website, please send us an email at
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