#philip townsend

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August 31, 1967, Kensington

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Mick Jagger photographed by Philip Townsend with unidentified woman, 1963.

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February 1965. - Philip Townsend / Daily Express Hulton Archive /

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Mick Jagger por Philip Townsend

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Philip Townsend on Robert Fraser

From 2Stoned, by Andrew Loog Oldham (2003):

Philip Townsend was a photographer in the 1960s, taking the first official photographs of The Rolling Stones, thanks to his friendship with Andrew Loog Oldham. In Oldham's book he talks about Robert Fraser:

Mick, Brian and, to a lesser extent, Keith could now achieve their need to mix with the nobs. Up to now old money had kept themselves to themselves, but now they were bored and needed entertaining and the new rock stars could provide all they needed — and the drugs as well. The main go-between was a rich, stupid, gay and untalented twit called Robert Fraser. He was an art and drug dealer with an address book full of the same kind of people as him. He soon became the Beatles’ and the Stones’ best friend. While he was the son of a self-made banker he had wormed his way into the old money crowd.

The first time I met Robert was in Ireland when he was chaperoning Mick, Keith, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg at Desmond Guinness’s superb Georgian castle, Leixlip, near Dublin. Mick and Marianne were lording around the grounds like the old money Mick was not. It was amazing how quickly he laundered himself from a terraced house in Dartford to a very large castle in Ireland. It had taken the Guinnesses a hundred and fifty years to achieve the same transformation. It took Mick fifteen months.

One wonders if the feeling was mutual.

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This is claimed to be the first band photo ever taken of The Rolling Stones (photo by Philip Townsend)

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