Post by Edith Grove on May 8th, 2015 at 5:09pm
Mick gets his hair done
"Going anywhere nice on your holidays, Mr. Jagger?"
by Amanda Uren
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
It's 1963 in the BBC's salon, and a 21-year-old Mick Jagger is getting his hair done. It's time for a television experience.
At this point, The Rolling Stones were only one year into their five-decade existence, having formed as the Rollin' Stones in 1962. The band played its first gig on July 12, 1962, and it wasn't until early 1963 that the Stones' drummer Charlie Watts joined the lineup.
Each Stone wore long hair apart from one founding member, Ian "Stu" Stewart. Stu was chucked from the band by then-19-year-old manager Andrew Loog Oldham; allegedly, Stu didn't fit the Stones' image of "pretty, thin, long-haired boys." (Though, he stayed on a as piano player for the Rolling Stones right up to his death in 1985.)
The photographer who captured Jagger's hair, 25-year-old Terry O'Neill, was near the beginning of his continuing five-decade-plus career. He emerged as go-to photographer of media superstars, from Audrey Hepburn to Amy Winehouse — a far cry from his first job, employed in an airline's photography department at Heathrow Airport.
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
"I only take pictures of people I fancy."
TERRY O'NEILL, 2012
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
"I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those days; I was just being me. I wasn't trying to push the edge of anything. I'm being me and ordinary, the guy from suburbia who sings in this band."
MICK JAGGER, VANITY FAIR, FEBRUARY 1992
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
http://mashable.com/2015/05/08/mick-jagger-hair/
"Going anywhere nice on your holidays, Mr. Jagger?"
by Amanda Uren
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
It's 1963 in the BBC's salon, and a 21-year-old Mick Jagger is getting his hair done. It's time for a television experience.
At this point, The Rolling Stones were only one year into their five-decade existence, having formed as the Rollin' Stones in 1962. The band played its first gig on July 12, 1962, and it wasn't until early 1963 that the Stones' drummer Charlie Watts joined the lineup.
Each Stone wore long hair apart from one founding member, Ian "Stu" Stewart. Stu was chucked from the band by then-19-year-old manager Andrew Loog Oldham; allegedly, Stu didn't fit the Stones' image of "pretty, thin, long-haired boys." (Though, he stayed on a as piano player for the Rolling Stones right up to his death in 1985.)
The photographer who captured Jagger's hair, 25-year-old Terry O'Neill, was near the beginning of his continuing five-decade-plus career. He emerged as go-to photographer of media superstars, from Audrey Hepburn to Amy Winehouse — a far cry from his first job, employed in an airline's photography department at Heathrow Airport.
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
"I only take pictures of people I fancy."
TERRY O'NEILL, 2012
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
"I wasn't trying to be rebellious in those days; I was just being me. I wasn't trying to push the edge of anything. I'm being me and ordinary, the guy from suburbia who sings in this band."
MICK JAGGER, VANITY FAIR, FEBRUARY 1992
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
IMAGE: TERRY O'NEILL/GETTY IMAGES
http://mashable.com/2015/05/08/mick-jagger-hair/