Say hello to Backstage. The new limited edition book from Ormond Yard Press.
Ormond Yard Press: Bringing You The Bigger Picture.
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz is now available. As with all previous Ormond Yard Press volumes, it is a book on a spectacular scale: a hardcover volume housed in its own printed slipcase and measuring 24 inches high x 18 inches wide (60x45cm) when closed, 24 x 36 inches (60 x 90cm) when open, with 96 pages of photographs including an introductory essay by Gered Mankowitz.
Backstage shines the spotlight on what goes on offstage, behind the scenes. Poker with Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, sharing toffee apples with Bo Diddley, tuning up in locker rooms full of jockstraps and cuddly toys, and much more. Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz, is a fascinating, unguarded photo-essay of these defining days, presented as an ultra-large format signed hardback limited edition of just 750 individually numbered examples worldwide, each one signed by Gered Mankowitz.
What was it really like to be backstage with The Rolling Stones in the mid-sixties?
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz, the incredible new ultra-large-format signed limited edition book from Ormond Yard Press answers that question by putting you at the epicentre.
This ultra-large-format book measures a staggering 18 x 24 inches (45 x 60cm) when closed, and 36 x 24 inches (90 x 60cm) when open. Because of this sheer physical scale, this book is a fully immersive experience.
It is the closest you can get to being backstage in the room with The Rolling Stones between 1965 and 1967.
It feels like you are there, in the room.
Backstage: facts and figures
This ultra-large-format book measures a staggering 18 x 24 inches (45 x 60cm) when closed, and 36 x 24 inches (90 x 60cm) when open.
Backstage has 96 large format pages, with 100 stunning black and white photographs, reproduced in sizes up to 24×36 inches (60x90cm), an introductory essay by Gered Mankowitz, and is limited to 750 copies worldwide. Each copy is individually numbered and signed by Gered Mankowitz.
Backstage is housed in a custom protective slipcase, with front cover artwork showing Mick Jagger (backstage at the London Palladium in 1967) and a back cover featuring Keith Richards (taken backstage on the 1965 US tour).
Ormond Yard Press: Bringing You The Bigger Picture
About Gered Mankowitz
Gered Mankowitz established his first studio in Mason’s Yard in 1963, in the very heart of 1960s swinging London.
Gered started working with the Rolling Stones early in 1965. At his very first Mason’s Yard session in February of that year he produced the album cover for Out of Our Heads (known as December’s Children (And Everybody’s) in the US), several EP covers, sheet music covers, press portraits and even passport photos.
The success of this first shoot secured his position with the band, and, later in the year, Oldham asked him to tour North America on the band’s autumn 1965 tour of the United States. Leaving London at the end of October, Gered flew out with the band and their roadie, Ian ‘Stu’ Stewart. They criss-crossed America for the next six weeks, ending in Los Angeles where the band were booked into Hollywood’s RCA studios to record tracks for the Aftermath album.
Gered worked with the Stones throughout 1966, producing the live images for the cover of Got Live If You Want It! and the famous session on Primrose Hill for the Between the Buttons album cover. He photographed them backstage on Sunday Night at The London Palladium in January 1967.
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