In the search for publicity, the Dave Clark Five aped the fresh and emerging face of pop inspired by the Beatles throughout 1963.
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The Dave Clark Five, summer 1963. The band was named after its front man, but it was keyboard player and vocalist Mike Smith (rear left) who gave the band credibility.
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Terry O’Neill’s shot of a barefoot Jean Shrimpton on a rain-soaked street on her way to a fashion shoot typified the unconventional and informal attitudes of young women in 1963.
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Vogue photographer David Bailey and his muse Jean Shrimpton were the couple that exemplified London’s emergence as the fashion capital of the world in 1963.
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Convent-educated Jean Shrimpton was the highest-paid supermodel of the 1960s and Cockney rebel Bailey the most in-demand photographer in the world.
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David Bailey was the enfant terrible of fashion photography whose working class charm and chutzpah delighted American Vogue editor Diana Vreeland.
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The Beatles take a break in the backyard of the Abbey Road studios in London in January, 1963, while recording their first hit single, “Please Please Me.”
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The Beatles share a joke with legendary producer Sir George Martin (second left) during the “Please Please Me” recording session.
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George Harrison tunes his guitar.
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Ringo Starr gave the Beatles and Sir George Martin new vigor with his drumming.
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The Beatles, with Sir George Martin (background), do the paperwork. The “Please Please Me” album took three three-hour sessions and cost £400 to record.
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Listening to the playback.
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“I was just seventeen playing gigs. There was a club mentality, a very strong underground like the Stones or Brian Augur. We were all club musicians. I liked it. I identified with it.”
Eric Clapton
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“The Stones told us ‘when you get paid,’ you went straight to Mr. Fish and bought clothes. We had fire in us and we had money. I was earning more than my father.”
Eric Stewart
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“The Flamingo Club was different, frequented by black American GIs from the airbases. It was their home in London. They’d come down loaded with Bourbon and play an album, Mose Allison, then come back a month later with a new album.”
Georgie Fame
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“We were the first generation of girls who could leave home before getting married. We were a power to be reckoned with because it was easy to get a job. There were two million of us with buying power. Teenagers were having a ball everywhere.”
Mandy Rice Davies
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“We all wanted to be thin, to look great in the new clothes. The doctors gave us slimming pills, speed, if we wanted them, and there were biscuits you could buy that made you feel full. I would eat them so I didn’t have to eat all day.”
Pattie Boyd
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“I was walking down Bond Street and there was a sign, VIDAL SASSOON, and a picture of a haircut that knocked me sideways. I knew I wanted my hair cut like that.”
Mary Quant
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“The Rolling Stones were just these boys walking down the street. First time we got some cash we all went out and bought new guitars and Beatles boots.” Keith Richards
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The photographer Terry O’Neill chose a harder, edgier style to shoot the Rolling Stones in London’s Tin Pan Alley to differentiate them from the clean-cut Beatles and other bands.
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In 1963 television appearances, the Rolling Stones were expected to conform to a smart dress code with jackets and ties, but they soon shed that respectable image—it didn’t match the music or the act.
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“We hated our first record. We refused to play it live. It didn’t sound good to us so we just didn’t do it. We were not that kind of calculating money machine.”
Keith Richards
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“Jagger was known to everyone simply as ‘the rhythm and blues singer.’ I thought it was a joke until I saw him perform. It was alchemy.”
Norman Jopling
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“Photographer Terry O’Neill remembers the Rolling Stones were ‘immediately cool.’ I was just trying to be polite and not get busted.”
Keith Richards
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“When I sent the Stones photographs to my picture editor, he went berserk. ‘They’re ugly—get me a pretty band like the Beatles.’”
Terry O’Neill
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Keith Richards called the Stones’ young manager, Andrew Loog Oldham (pictured here with Charlie Watts), the sixth Stone. “I do love that man. He forged this thing.”
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“Brian Jones felt threatened because he had control of the Rolling Stones until I came along. In any band there’s a group leader until there’s a manager.”
Andrew Loog Oldham
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Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and Mick Jagger. “The big difference between the Beatles and the Stones were [that] the Beatles made it in America. The Stones were made by America.”
Andrew Loog Oldham
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Jagger, Richards, and Loog Oldham (background) in the studio with Lionel Bart, songwriter, pop impresario, and composer of the hit musical Oliver!.
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Spotted by a British producer in a Greenwich Village folk club, the unknown Bob Dylan was flown to Britain to perform in a televised drama and honed his act in London folk clubs after rehearsals.
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An outtake from the the now-iconic album cover of Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan with Susie Rotolo, taken on the corner of Jones and West Fourth Street in Greenwich Village. The album reached number 22 in the United States but hit the top spot in Britain.
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“When I first heard the Beatles it had an impact. You were aware of new music and new people. I was breaking boundaries in journalism. I always felt it could be an art form. Literature and the laws changed.”
Gay Talese
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Carly and Lucy Simon toured Greenwich Village clubs and Ivy League campuses with their folk-rock repertoire but scored only one minor hit before Carly’s solo career took off in 1971.
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“When I saw the Beatles, that was my eureka moment. Less than a year later we were in America. We did 365 concerts in one year. The Beatles thought we were fluff. We weren’t in the same league.”
Peter Noone
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“The suits were in charge of television and radio, they and the assholes of EMI and Decca. I thought about a boat, offshore, where they couldn’t touch us, broadcasting my kind of music.”
Ronan O’Rahilly
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“The mood was new music. It was more rebellious, more evasive writing, more metaphorical. I’d had ten hits in a row and then the Beatles and the Stones came in and … I was the outsider. My records stopped selling.”
Neil Sedaka
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“I heard about this band the Animals coming into London from Newcastle. I took them shopping first, then to a studio, because they didn’t look the business. They looked like laborers.”
Terry O’Neill
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Eric Burden (left) and lead guitarist Hilton Valentine. “I don’t know when we changed our name to the Animals but I think it was our first trip down to London.”
Hilton Valentine
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“The Animals were very tough cookies. Very suspicious. Alan Price (below) was very smart, and Chas Chandler was physically hard.”
Georgie Fame
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“The studio was a rehearsal place where violinists went. We didn’t last long there. They told us to leave because we were so loud. It was unusual in the beginning being photographed. And it was the beginning.”
Hilton Valentine
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The Beatles film a scene for A Hard Day’s Night at a theater in London.
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Photograph by Terry O’Neill
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Within a year of the release of “Please Please Me,” the Beatles had performed before 75 million Americans on The Ed Sullivan Show and flown home to film A Hard Day’s Night and record Around the Beatles.
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During the filming of Around the Beatles, McCartney and Lennon spoofed Pyramus and Thisbe (from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream), seen here in rehearsals, and Ringo Starr donned a Tudor costume for his part.
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Pattie Boyd, her future husband George Harrison, Cilla Black, and Brian Epstein dine out in London during filming of A Hard Day’s Night.
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“Davy Jones [David Bowie] and I would bring our guitars to school and sit on the stairs and play during the lunch break. I was thirteen. He was sixteen.”
Peter Frampton
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