Rolling Stones exhibition opens at Dublin Airport – Airport World News

Dublin Airport has opened its very own tribute to The Rolling Stones.
The tribute comes in the shape of an exhibition of archive photographs of the band from 1965, most of which had never been seen publicly until a couple of months ago.

The exhibition in Terminal 1, which coincides with The Rolling Stones 50th anniversary, opened yesterday and features 20 black and white images of the band on an Irish tour in September 1965.

This is the first time that the photographic essay – which includes pictures of the Stones arriving at Dublin Airport, in concert and backstage the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin and at Connolly Station en route to Belfast – has been publicly exhibited.

The black and white photographs were taken in September 1965 when The Rolling Stones came to Ireland for a two-date tour with concerts in Dublin and Belfast.
The tour, which was immortalised in the recently released documentary film Charlie Is My Darling, took place just a few weeks after (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction topped the charts and featured the original Rolling Stones line up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman.

The photographers who shot the Stones in Ireland in 1965 - Padraig MacBrian and Andy Farren – at the time owned the Dublin-based Lensmen Photographic Agency. The two men, who are both in their 90s, still live in Dublin.
Dublin Airport Authority's public affairs director, Paul O’Kane, said: “Forty seven years after Mick, Keith, Charlie, Brian and Bill touched down at Dublin Airport, they’ve returned in pictorial form. Dublin Airport is delighted to be able to bring these images to a wide audience by displaying them in a public area in Terminal 1.”

The Rolling Stones began their 50th anniversary tour earlier this week with a sold out concert at London’s 02 Arena.

[airport-world.com]

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