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Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix meeting for the first time on the set of ‘Top of the Pops,’ May, 1967.

Special signed (reverse) matted 2×2 print – only a few available.

Limited edition prints also available.

“I got a late present the day after my eighteenth birthday, May 4, 1967, when I got to watch Hendrix perform on Top of the Pops. At the time I was going to the BBC’s studios at Lime Grove every Thursday for the taping of the weekly music TV show, which was hugely in influential at that time. All the record retailers throughout the country would place their orders on Friday morning depending on what was played on Top of the Pops the night before, and all the major bands would play the show when they released a record—Pink Floyd, the Stones, Hendrix, Marley. I was in awe of Hendrix, so when I saw he was scheduled to play I made sure I was there. He blew the doors off the place like he always did, but the cool moment came when I noticed Mick Jagger behind the stage, out of the lights, just standing there watching Jimi’s set. When the taping was finished, Hendrix went over to Jagger and I immediately followed. ‘Hey guys, do you mind if I get a picture?’ They said sure and I snapped a shot on my Rolleiflex, just one frame, no other photographers around. Jimi had only been in London for ve or six months at that point—I’m pretty sure that was the day they met.”

from London Rock: The Unseen Archive

Dimensions indicate paper size.

Also available with the Signature Edition of Alec’s book LONDON ROCK: The Unseen Archive.

NOTE: Photographer watermark is for web display purposes only and is not added to the physical print.