BOOK TIP: Rock history and photo art - the early Rolling Stones - illustrated book with 240 pages
Book recommendation for Rolling Stones fans: “BREAKING STONES 1963-1965 A BAND ON THE BRINK OF SUPERSTARDOM" - Photographs by Terry O'Neill & Gered Mankowitz"
The Stones and their young photographer Terry O'Neill simply followed their inner artistic drive between 1963 and 1965
Munich. The year was 1962 and a few young men were performing at the Marquee Club on Oxford Street in London, playing their sound. Their name: The Rollin' Stones. For the 25-year-old British photographer Terry O'Neill (1938-2019), the Stones' music had something magical from the start, something he knew from the Beatles. A few years ago, Terry O'Neill's photographs of the young band “Rolling Stones” were exhibited at an exhibition in Munich. The reason for the exhibition with original, signed and limited photographs was the publication of the English illustrated book “Breaking Stones” by Terry O'Neill and Gered Mankowitz.
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| "Breaking Stones" back and front of the English edition, photo: Waess |
We were at the Stephen Hoffman gallery in 2016 and met Terry O'Neill in person and he talked about his first encounter with the Stones:
... We were all young and nobody knew who should be famous. Not you and neither me: we just lived our own thing!
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| "Breaking Stones" English and German edition, photo: Waess |
The illustrated book about the Rolling Stones contains fantastic photos of the young musicians at the beginning of their career. But it wasn't just them who were to write rock history to this day, the two photographers Terry O'Neill, then 25, and Gered Mankowitz, then 19, were also at the beginning of their work. Contemporary witnesses have their say in the book and also allow the photographs to be seen in a new light:
Numerous companions of the Stones, as well as the two photographers and the musicians themselves, have their say in the illustrated book “Breaking Stones” - there are text contributions by Andrew Loog Oldman, Norman Jopling, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman. Original articles from the Record Mirror (1963), the Evening Standard (1964) and the Detroit Free Press (1965) are also edited.
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| "Breaking Stones" English edition, photo: Waess |
In the Munich gallery Stephen Hoffman at the back of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof (Prannerstrasse 5, homepage: galeriehoffman.com)
... signed, original photo art by Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) is still exhibited today. Terry O'Neill, who always traveled personally from London to his vernissages (2013, 2015 and 2016), stayed at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel and spoke very sympathetically about his experiences with many well-known musicians, actors and politicians.
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| Spine of "Breaking Stones" English and German edition, photo: Waess |
The legendary British photographer Terry O’Neill (*1938-2019)
Terry photographically accompanied the lives of the aspiring rock stars of his time. And: these became icons of music history starting in the 1960s - including, for example: David Bowie, Elton John, The Who, Eric Clapton and Chuck Berry. His chronicle of the Swinging Sixties made him a well-known photographer thanks to his friendships with the Beatles and Rolling Stones. Terry O'Neill's photographs hang in national galleries, photo museums and private collections worldwide.
In his career as a photographer, Terry O'Neill has often had the opportunity to photograph presidents, prime ministers, Oscar winners and the British royal family (officially and privately).
After many decades, Terry O'Neill claimed covers for magazines such as Stern, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, GQ, Time, The Sunday Times Magazine, People, Playboy, Paris Match, Look, Vanity Fair and others. He has famous film posters, record covers and more Fashion templates delivered to the world's best designers.
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| "Breaking Stones" English edition signed by Terry O'Neill "Give me the Honky Tonk Blues!! , Photo: Waess |
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A nice illustrated book for fans of the Rolling Stones for Christmas:
Other books by Terry O'Neill can be found in bookstores
- Terry O’Neill und A. A. Gil,: Celebrity: The Photographs of Terry O’Neill. Englischer Bildband zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Trafalgar Square, 2003
- Terry O’Neill: The Art of Photography. Chris Beetles Gallery (Hrsg.)
- Terry O’Neill (Autor), All About Bond (Englisch) Gebundene Ausgabe – 1. November 2012 – Fotos von fünf James Bonds von Connery bis Craig und mehr als 20 Bond-Girls aus 50 Jahren
- Terry O’Neill’s Rock ’n‘ Roll Album – 2014
- Terry O’Neill, Bowie by O’Neill – The definitive collection with unseen images
- Terry O’Neill , Elton John by Terry O’Neill: The definitive portrait, with unseen images, 3. Oktober 2019
- Terry O’Neill, ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHY: Das Opus – von Terry O’Neill
- Terry O’Neill, Every Picture tells a Story
