Jul 5
ON THIS DAY, July 5, 1969, MICK TAYLOR performed his first live gig as a Rolling Stone at Hyde Park in London
“Inside the hotel room before the show, people milled about. The Granada film crew was there, and, of course, I was there taking the odd picture. Keith lay on a couch next to Michael Cooper, the legendary photographer of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper cover and the Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request. Mick Taylor recalls, ‘Before the concert, the feeling in the hotel room was intense, this sense of pressure on all of us and this feeling of loss.’ As the time to perform approached, you could feel the atmosphere of dread and expectation thicken in the room.”
— Ethan Russell, Let It Bleed
