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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
You mean, the Rolling Stones have never been on the cover of
TIME? Well, they almost were, back in 1972, when their seventh U.S.
tour was taking America by storm. Photographer Ken Regan posed the
"satanic majesties" of rock backstage in San Francisco and Los
Angeles, but the cover did not appear: it was bumped by one on
George McGovern taking over the Democratic Party. "I've been
waiting 17 years for this cover," chuckled Regan last week, as he
arranged the Stones for their portrait, older but still flaunting
their stuff.
Yet the bad boys of rock have definitely mellowed. "Through
the years, the Stones have rarely been accessible," says Regan, who
has shot pictures for several of the band's tours and albums. For
our cover shoot, Mick Jagger and his mates interrupted (for 1 1/2
hours) preparations for their first American tour in eight years.
Regan trundled his gear up to tiny Washington, Conn. (pop. 3,700),
where the Stones were rehearsing in a former girls school. "They're
not terribly comfortable posing for pictures," Regan notes, "but
this time they were as loose and relaxed as I've ever seen them."
Quipped Jagger, after being asked to strike a new pose: "Oh, do we
have to do this again? We did it years ago."
TIME art director Rudy Hoglund, who coordinated the shoot,
caught a glimpse of the personal Stones. "Their public image comes
across as rather harsh," Hoglund says. "But I found them to be
charming, regular people. Keith Richards had a friendly Labrador
dog that followed him everywhere. He seemed like a very gentle kind
of guy."
MaryAnne Golon, TIME's assistant picture editor for special
projects, was struck by the natural excitement the Stones seem to
generate. "You can plan where people should stand, what they should
wear and which kind of background to use," she notes, "but you
can't plan them." She didn't need to. Long before the session was
over, TIME had caught that old Stones magic.
Our 50th-anniversary special on World War II concludes this
week with a look at the nightmare years that led up to Japan's
attack on Pearl Harbor.