Post by Edith Grove on Jun 28th, 2013 at 11:45am
Times Gone By 1964: Castle at bottom of her garden
Written by Terry Gilder
FIVE musicians sit comfortably on a sofa provided for them by the management of a cinema . . . but this is no ordinary boy band.
SOFA LINE-UP... BrianJones, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman, pictured at the Hanley Gaumont Cinema in September 1964. Jagger and Richards are ‘survivors’ after 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll.The legendary Rolling Stones were pictured on September 25, 1964 at Hanley's Gaumont Cinema by a Newsletter photographer perhaps between the two performances they gave that night.
The gig was advertised in the Newsletter by Greatrex Coaches for three weeks before posting a ‘concert sold out’ notice.
Did those early fans realise in 1964 that the Stones would still be rocking and rolling 50 years on and headlining at such venues as the Glastonbury ‘mud fest’ being held this weekend?
The man behind the camera was John Ward who used his press camera to capture a band which was already making a name for itself with a series of tours both in the UK and United States.
Those were the days when a UK concert billing by the Rolling Stones included a host of other acts and in this case, compere Don Spencer introduced the Mojos, Inez and Charlie Fox, Mike Berry and the Innocents and Simon Scott with the Le Roys.
MINI POSTER . . . The line-up awaiting those attending the two performances on September 25, 1964. Most expensive tickets were 10s.6d (51p) - today’s fans are lucky to get change out of £100 for the Hyde Park performance this summer.
The Stones were formed in 1962 and had enjoyed moderate success before hitting the pop charts with familiar numbers such as I Wanna Be Your Man and Not Fade Away.
Their manager Andrew Oldham promoted them as the ‘nasty opposites’ of the Beatles and Bill Wyman was to comment: "We were the first pop group to break away from the whole Cliff Richard thing where the bands did little dance steps, wore identical uniforms and had snappy patter".
Their first appearance at the Hanley venue was actually on February 21 that same year and they were to return the following September . . . . three months later, the band had latched onto the idea of composing their own music with the first Jagger/Richards single Heart of Stone backed with What a Shame.
The Stones have been on the road ever since and came even closer to the county town on May 17, 1976 when they appeared at Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground.
And how, you may ask, did a Newsletter cameraman come to be photographing the Stones in
Hanley which was outside the paper's normal circulation area?
It is an open secret that the photographers were not averse to using their employers' equipment and in this case, photographer may have wanted to get up close to the Stones.
http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Nostalgia/Times-Gone-By-1964-Castle-at-bottom-of-her-garden-27062013.htm
Written by Terry Gilder
FIVE musicians sit comfortably on a sofa provided for them by the management of a cinema . . . but this is no ordinary boy band.
SOFA LINE-UP... BrianJones, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman, pictured at the Hanley Gaumont Cinema in September 1964. Jagger and Richards are ‘survivors’ after 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll.The legendary Rolling Stones were pictured on September 25, 1964 at Hanley's Gaumont Cinema by a Newsletter photographer perhaps between the two performances they gave that night.
The gig was advertised in the Newsletter by Greatrex Coaches for three weeks before posting a ‘concert sold out’ notice.
Did those early fans realise in 1964 that the Stones would still be rocking and rolling 50 years on and headlining at such venues as the Glastonbury ‘mud fest’ being held this weekend?
The man behind the camera was John Ward who used his press camera to capture a band which was already making a name for itself with a series of tours both in the UK and United States.
Those were the days when a UK concert billing by the Rolling Stones included a host of other acts and in this case, compere Don Spencer introduced the Mojos, Inez and Charlie Fox, Mike Berry and the Innocents and Simon Scott with the Le Roys.
MINI POSTER . . . The line-up awaiting those attending the two performances on September 25, 1964. Most expensive tickets were 10s.6d (51p) - today’s fans are lucky to get change out of £100 for the Hyde Park performance this summer.
The Stones were formed in 1962 and had enjoyed moderate success before hitting the pop charts with familiar numbers such as I Wanna Be Your Man and Not Fade Away.
Their manager Andrew Oldham promoted them as the ‘nasty opposites’ of the Beatles and Bill Wyman was to comment: "We were the first pop group to break away from the whole Cliff Richard thing where the bands did little dance steps, wore identical uniforms and had snappy patter".
Their first appearance at the Hanley venue was actually on February 21 that same year and they were to return the following September . . . . three months later, the band had latched onto the idea of composing their own music with the first Jagger/Richards single Heart of Stone backed with What a Shame.
The Stones have been on the road ever since and came even closer to the county town on May 17, 1976 when they appeared at Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground.
And how, you may ask, did a Newsletter cameraman come to be photographing the Stones in
Hanley which was outside the paper's normal circulation area?
It is an open secret that the photographers were not averse to using their employers' equipment and in this case, photographer may have wanted to get up close to the Stones.
http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Nostalgia/Times-Gone-By-1964-Castle-at-bottom-of-her-garden-27062013.htm