The Rolling Stones Family: Brian Jones' Lonely Hearts Club

Keef on tour bus, Scotland, May 1982
© Michael Putland

♠ It's just rock and roll, baby ♫

Keith Richards, Marquee Sound Check.
26th March 1971 - London, Marquee Club
2 and 3 photos © Alec Byrne

“But there was definitely something going on with Keith. There was a classic moment during sound check when Jagger was watching Keith, then turned to Mick Taylor, and they both started laughing. While the band was playing one song, Keith had seemingly started another, departed for his own world—somewhere else entirely. Then, after a few moments of this, Keith staggered back against the amplifiers and slumped down onto the stage. It felt like a serious moment to me, but Keith was laughing. Jagger and Wyman just went over and started chatting with him and pulling him round. They picked Keith up and he was helped off stage. I thought that was the last we’d see of him, but after a little break he was back to finish sound check and pulled it together entirely for the show, a total professional.”
- Alec Byrne

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March 1971 - UK TV (BBC) ‘Top Of The Pops’, London.
Photographer Alec Byrne.

At the end of March, ’71, following a legendary set at The Marquee at the end of their 1971 UK tour, the Rolling Stones stopped by Top of the Pops at BBC Studios to perform a few songs from the soon-to-be-released Sticky Fingers.

Alec was on hand and captured this image of the band performing “Brown Sugar.” A couple of days later the Stones left the UK for the south of France where they would record Exile on Main St.

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Charles Robert Watts
2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021
Ужасно....нет слов...Прощай, Чарли...Вы снова встретитесь с Брайаном...

Brian and Charlie

Brian and Charlie

Brian and Charlie

Brian and Charlie

Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones accept the award for Album Of The Year at the Jazz FM Awards 2017 at Shoreditch Town Hall on April 25, 2017 in London.
Photo by Dave J Hogan

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pay tribute to late Rolling Stones bandmate Charlie Watts.
The 'Glimmer Twins' shared photos to commemorate their departed bandmate

https://www.nme.com/news/music/mick-jagger-and-keith-richards-pay-tribute-to-late-rolli...

Ronnie Wood pays tribute to Charlie Watts: "I will dearly miss you"
https://www.nme.com/news/music/ronnie-wood-pays-tribute-to-charlie-watts-rolling-stones...

Marble Arch Car Park, 1963
Photo by Fiona Adams

Photo by Taylor Hill

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