The Early Stones

 

A splash of colour from Terry O'Neill in this 1963 shot of The Rolling Stones outside the Tin Pan Alley Club in London. The photos from this shoot helped Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones & Charlie Watts get their first recording contract from Decca.

Gus Coral's 1963 Rolling Stones photos are amazing. My favourite is this one.

The Rolling Stones by Gus Coral, 1963. What a shot!

The Rolling Stones by Terry O'Neill, 1963

"I was born at a time where I had the best of the best to shoot."

Fiona Adams's early shot of the Rolling Stones in a Marble Arch car park, 1963

Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards

The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz, 1965

National Portrait Gallery, London

Charlie Watts was the coolest of the Stones, but I love his smile here.

The Rolling Stones by Mark & Colleen Hayward, 1963

Norman Parkinson's photoshoot for Queen magazine, April 22, 1964:

1. The Stones...

2. Enter French model Nicole de Lamargé...

3. "How to kill five Stones with one Bird".

Gered Mankowitz

Visa portraits for the Rolling Stones' US tour, shot at Mason's Yard Studio in 1965

I hadn't seen these before. Eyes open, Charlie!

Jean-Marie Périer

The Rolling Stones on the Champs-Elysées, 1965