The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger; Keith Richards; Bill Wyman; Brian Jones; Charlie Watts)
6 of 38 portraits of Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger; Keith Richards; Bill Wyman; Brian Jones; Charlie Watts)
by Terry O'Neill
digital R-type colour print from original transparency, 1963
19 1/4 in. x 19 3/8 in. (490 mm x 493 mm)
Given by Terry O'Neill, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG x126149
Sittersback to top
- Sir Michael Philip ('Mick') Jagger (1943-), Singer and composer; lead vocalist for the Rolling Stones. Sitter in 67 portraits. Identify
- Brian Jones (1942-1969), Musician; founder and instrumentalist for the Rolling Stones. Sitter in 31 portraits. Identify
- Keith Richards (1943-), Musician; guitarist and bass guitarist for the Rolling Stones. Sitter in 39 portraits. Identify
- Charles Robert ('Charlie') Watts (1941-2021), Drummer for the Rolling Stones. Sitter in 38 portraits. Identify
- Bill Wyman (1936-), Musician; bass guitarist for the Rolling Stones; founder of Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Sitter in 38 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Terry O'Neill (1938-2019), Photographer. Artist or producer of 80 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Outside the Tin Pan Alley Club, London. O'Neill photographed the band two years after it was formed in the year in which they released their first single Come On (1963). O'Neill was working for the Daily Sketch at the time, ' I'd just done a similar shoot with The Beatles and my editor's reaction to both was negative. He couldn't stand the way these bands looked. 'Go and shoot some pretty boys, ' he told me.'
Linked publicationsback to top
- Ribeiro, Aileen; Blackman, Cally, A Portrait of Fashion: Six Centuries of Dress at the National Portrait Gallery, 2015, p. 238
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (outside the Tin Pan Alley Club (Denmark Street), London)
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Mick Jagger: Young in the 60s (3 May 2011 - 27 November 2011)
- Terry O'Neill: Celebrity (6 September 2003 - 14 March 2004)
Events of 1963back to top
Current affairs
The Secretary of State for War, John Profumo is found to have lied to the House of Commons when he denied having an affair with the showgirl, Christine Keeler. The Profumo Affair was a public scandal for the Conservative party, and ultimately contributed to the resignation of Harold Macmillan.Art and science
Doctor Who is first broadcast on the BBC with William Hartnell playing the Doctor. This long running science fiction series about an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his police-box-shaped Tardis has been watched by generations of viewers (often from behind the back of the sofa), and features imaginative, but traditionally low-budget, special effects, innovative electronic music, and the Doctor's greatest enemy, the Daleks.International
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Texas. The arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald for his murder did not prevent a score of conspiracy theories involving Cuba, the CIA, the KGB, and the Mafia among others.Martin Luther King delivers his 'I have a dream' speech, marking an important moment in the civil rights movement in America and helping to secure him the Nobel Peace Prize' in 1964.
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