Lot 121
  • 121

The Rolling Stones

Estimate
500 - 700 USD
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Description

  • Candid studio photographs from the "Sympathy for the Devil" recording sessions.
  • ink and paper
A group of 7 black and white photographs of Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards and Marianne Faithfull in the recording studio during the making of the Stones "Beggars Banquet" album from 1968. Anita and Marianne Faithfull (the former pictured in front of a microphone were used in the famous Whoo Whoo background vocals on the lead track, 'Sympathy for the Devil'. Presumably unpublished.

Provenance

From the collection of Decca executive Allan Steckler.

Condition

clean
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