The Rolling Stones--Tapani Talo

spiral bound folio album (460 x 630mm.), 17 pages, containing 17 modern photographic prints showing the Rolling Stones rehearsing in Rotterdam in October 1973, each photograph (sheet size approx 330 x 480mm.) inscribed, numbered "1/10" and dated "2015" by the photographer, and laid down at four corners onto the pages of the album, two photographs additionally signed and dated "2011", title and photographer's name stencilled in black along the lower edge of the upper cover of the album

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Having worked a sound engineer and a freelance photographer in his native Finland, in the early 1970s Talo found work in London at the Rolling Stone's mobile studio.

In 1973, Talo's first year working for the studio, he joined the Rolling Stones's European Tour, where he  was able to photograph the band rehearsing and performing. The tour lasted 22 days but comprised over 40 shows, with two shows a day part of the normal schedule. Speaking of his experience, Talo observes "The Stones worked harder and better than anyone I ever met."