The Rolling Stones 1972 by Jim Marshall

Author:Jim Marshall
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781452121802
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at Sunset Sound spring 1972, Los Angeles, California.

Mick Jagger at a publicity photo shoot, spring 1972, Los Angeles, California.

BEHIND THE SCENES

On the Stones’ previous U.S. tours in 1965-66, 1967, and 1969, Marshall photographed them at locations throughout Northern California, including the infamous concert at Altamont. He was selected to cover the 1972 tour for Life, a prestigious and remarkably mainstream assignment that was a coup both for the Stones and for Marshall himself. The PR team of Gibson-Stromberg targeted features in Life, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and Rolling Stone—Jim was given one week on the tour, from June 6 through June 13, to get his shots. The July 14 issue, with Marshall’s image of Jagger on the cover and nine additional photographs inside, was released as the tour proceeded east; the final concerts took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City July 24-26.

Marshall was present for the California leg—the Winterland in San Francisco, the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, the Pacific Terrace Center in Long Beach, the Forum in Los Angeles, and the International Sports Arena in San Diego—of a tour that spanned about forty venues in two months. In over ten locations, including the Winterland and the Forum, the Stones played two sets in one day and were frequently unable to leave the location in between due to security concerns.

Though this tour is legendary for its raucous, at times unbelievable offstage behavior, something else is documented here—the camaraderie formed through hours spent waiting in antiseptic greenrooms as a brief calm before the storm of performance; conversations to fill the hours of lounging, waiting to take the stage; the availability of food and, more importantly, liquor; and the lonely, less-glamorous reality of long hours traveling to a location for a brief but powerful ninety minutes in front of the fans. In less than one week, Marshall captured this reality through images both of and beyond their time.—MDM

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