Found: The Rolling Stones presents a series of never-before-seen
snapshots of The Rolling Stones on a 1965 tour through Savannah, Georgia
and Clearwater, Florida. Found in an unmarked box at a flea market in
Southern California by musician and art collector Lauren White, these
rare candid images of Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie
Watts, Bill Wyman and founding member and road manager, Ian Stewart,
capture the band--on the brink of global superstardom--relaxed and
unguarded. On tour in North America in the spring of 1965, the young
band was playing YMCA auditoriums and college gymnasiums in support of
their third album, The Rolling Stones, Now!, and still trying to set
themselves apart from the scores of other bands emerging out of Britain
at the time. An additional handful of snapshots (found in the same box)
appear to be from a year or two later, with the band in full rock-star
mode. Dilettante gallery in Los Angeles showed the photographs for the
first time after their discovery, but despite considerable press
attention, the photographer responsible for these remarkable images
still has not emerged. Some have speculated that it could be Keith
Richards, since he appears in only one of the 23 photographs. White has
her own suspicions: "My female intuition says that it was a girl. If you
look at the photos, they look very vulnerable ... I don't think that a
guy could evoke that kind of expression." This key moment in the band's
history was recently chronicled in the documentary The Rolling Stones:
Charlie Is My Darling--Ireland 1965 (2012), filmed during another tour
that same year. The cache of photographs in Found: The Rolling Stones
is a rare discovery and a thrilling piece of rock-and-roll history, but
also an intimate, fresh look at five faces that were soon to become
iconic.
