1960-1969

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. For years a backup singer text (for Delaney & Bonnie, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Leon Russell), Rita was making her first record produced by the distinguished David Anderle at A&M Records, one of the few to whom Los Angeles really was home […]

Little Richard paces the stage of the Whisky à-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip. Mick and Keith watch from the shadows. Little Richard bulges against the confines of his gold lame suit. A gold cape is draped across his shoulders. The heavy pancake make-up on his face is starting to run from the sweat he’s building […]

The guitars of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor start the strong chording that sets up an oscillating rhythm almost like a submarine’s Klaxon, and Mick sings, “Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy / For the summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy.”  Bill Wyman’s bass […]

The Los Angeles set starts big, but in the tradition of show business pacing, it slows to allow Keith a steel guitar spot (“No Expectations”). Mick sits next to him on a stool. Then the set kicks up again with “Midnight Rambler.” It is another song from the dark side, a song of encompassing menace, […]

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At one time or another, I also photographed the rest of the Apple roster. Mary Hopkin, the young discovery from Wales, was as sweet as she was reputed to be, though with a certain wariness. Probably no entertainer had been as repeatedly warned of the wicked, wicked ways of show biz as Mary was by […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c_MLSv6DYI&feature=youtube_gdata_player “Well, Ethan, you can see that there is no hope for you here,” said Derek, indicating the clusters of people. “Let’s go down to Peter Brown’s office.” By comparison, Peter Brown’s office was like a church. It was large, high-ceilinged, with subdued lighting, quiet, and empty, with a huge portrait of John and Paul […]

In the middle of filming, someone points out Ken Kesey, standing on the sidelines. Next to Kesey stands Rock Scully, associated with the Grateful Dead, and a few others, a small band of notables from the Haight. They had come to England to see if it was really all it was reputed to be. From […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3fV-2rnA4&feature=youtube_gdata_player Valerie had blond hair that hung to her shoulders and was cut in a flat bang across the front. She looked like Marianne Faithful, or Françoise Hardy, the look of the time. I found her beautiful and, of course, assumed she would have nothing to do with me, so it came as a great […]