Keith Richards heads to the Rolling Stones’ dressing room while smoking a cigarette, and wearing a panama hat, scarf and Stones’ tour jacket. Ronnie Wood (left) and Richards’ assistant on right. © roger barone 1975
KEITH RICHARDS/ROLLING STONES: THE SPECTRUM (June 30, 1975)
Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards plays “All Down The Line” during the first of two shows at the Spectrum Arena. The Stones “Tour of the Americas” of 1975 was the last time they played at the Spectrum© Roger Barone 1975
KEITH RICHARDS/ROLLING STONES: THE SPECTRUM ARENA (June 29,1975)
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, right, holds legendary Motown recording artist, Stevie Wonder’s hand as he guides him around the Spectrum Arena stage. Stevie Wonder joined Jagger and the Stones for the encore that featured Jagger and Wonder singing two of their biggest hits, “Uptight” and “Satisfaction,” together. This show is the second (Friday afternoon 7/21 matinee) of three Stones’ performances at the Spectrum on July 20,and July 21. Special thanks to Art Reilly for generously granting permission to use this photo on the “Romancing The Stones Blog” © Art Reilly 1972
STEVIE WONDER/MICK JAGGER: SPECTRUM ARENA (July 21, 1972)
Art Reilly, the photographer who captured this historic image of Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder performing at the Spectrum Arena during their 1972 North American tour, began his career as a photographer in the jungles of Vietnam where he served as a combat photographer for 19 months.
Later, as his www.greatrockphotos.com notes, Reilly worked on Bruce Springsteen’s lighting crew during his first couple of tours and has preserved many memorable moments with the “Boss” from those days.
Reilly, in addition to being a talented luthier and restorer of antique autos, continued photographing concerts and performers during the fledgling days of their careers and among his rarest and most prized images are the Allman Brothers at Camden County Community College in the late ’60s, Jimi Hendrix at the Atlanta Pop Festival where, according to Reilly, he performed one of his last shows in America (Hendrix played at the Miami Pop Festival a week later), and candid shots of Joan Baez with her child, whom she was pregnant with during her Woodstock performance. Reilly also has photographed Led Zeppelin at the Spectrum during their 1971 ZOSO tour.
Reilly has also worked with world renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Fred Simeone, assisting with conceptual displays for his legendary antique car collection, which is said to be worth upward of 500-million dollars.
Today, Reilly is semi-retired, but continues to work on many of the world’s most recognizable sporting events such as Super Bowls, Championship fights, the Olympics and Showtime Pay-Per-View Broadcasts.
Reilly’s photos can be purchased directly from his website, and they are one of the best bargains you’ll ever find. I highly recommend visiting his site, and if you’re a Stones fan, you’ll love his work.
Art Reilly’s website: www.greatrockphotos.com
Mick Jagger’s athletic and slim body as seen from, ahem, behind. Jagger was performing one of several encores at the Spectrum Arena on 6/30/1975. In the upper-right, a frisbee remains from the opening performance of the Commodores, who threw red frisbees to the audience. © ROGER BARONE 1975
MICK JAGGER/ROLLING STONES: THE SPECTRUM ARENA (June 30, 1975)
Guitarist Ronnie Wood, left, and Mick Jagger performing during the second show of the Rolling Stones 1981 “Tattoo You” Tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Jagger is playing a cherry Gibson SG guitar. © Roger Barone 1981
RONNIE WOOD/MICK JAGGER: JFK STADIUM (September 27, 1981)
Mick Jagger’s vertical leap keeps wide-eyed Philly fans focused on the Rolling Stones’ music at the Spectrum during their three-song encore © ROGER BARONE 1975
MICK JAGGER/ROLLING STONES: SPECTRUM ARENA (June 30, 1975)
Bill Graham, center, and Philadelphia stagehands put finishing touches on Rolling Stones’ “Tattoo You” Tour stage at JFK Stadium a day before the first show. The photographer on the far left is Ken Regan, a well-known photographer and official tour photographer for several Stones’ tours. Regan died from complications of cancer on November 25, 2012, as reported in theNew York Times. © Roger Barone 1981
BILL GRAHAM/KEN REGAN: JFK STADIUM (September 24, 1981)
Ken Regan, Photojournalist Trusted by Celebrities, Dies
By PAUL VITELLO
Ken Regan, a photojournalist whose reputation for discretion earned him a backstage pass to the private realms of rock ’n’ roll stars and other celebrities, including Bob Dylan and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, died on Nov. 25 in Manhattan.
The cause was cancer, his daughter Suzanne Regan, said.
Mr. Regan was the official photographer for the Rolling Stones on several tours in the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975 and the Live Aid concert in 1985. He was Senator Kennedy’s unofficial personal photographer in the last four decades of his life. He took the pictures documenting Christopher Reeve’s homecoming from rehabilitation after the 1995 fall from a horse that left the actor paralyzed.
Mr. Regan’s sure-footedness on the high ridgelines of celebrity, where unguarded moments can sometimes teeter toward painful unmasking, made him the favorite photographer of people who were famous for being wary of photographers. Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster and Oprah Winfrey were frequent subjects. When People magazine sought homey shots of Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford or Robert Redford in their mountain aeries, Mr. Regan was often asked to take the job.
Mr. Regan maintained strict personal boundaries of his own. Only family members knew his age. Only his two daughters knew his cellphone number. And when he was told he had cancer several years ago, he kept the news to himself, sharing it only in the final weeks of his life with a small circle of intimates.
“Privacy was a principle he took very seriously,” said Suzanne Guard, a longtime friend.
By never doing business with scandal sheets or selling pictures his subjects considered unflattering, he told interviewers, he gained access to the terrain where celebrities exist as regular people.
He credited his relationships with making possible some of his finest pictures: Keith Richards holding his infant daughter, Theodora, in 1985, looking more like the tired father of a newborn than the debauched all-night reveler he often was; Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan sitting cross-legged at Jack Kerouac’s grave in Lowell, Mass., in 1975; a 1974 photo of Senator Kennedy and his son, Ted Jr., walking down a hallway together, the youth using a cane just months after the amputation of his cancerous right leg, the father supporting him.
“We trust him,” James Taylor wrote in an afterword to Mr. Regan’s collection of rock ’n’ roll photography, “All Access,” published last year. “We can be ourselves around him. He is one of us.”
Ken Regan was born in the Bronx — it was a June 15 — the only child of William and Alice Douglas-Regan. He began taking pictures with a camera his mother gave him when he was about 13.
He told interviewers he was still a teenager when he began visiting the Fillmore East to take pictures of the emerging megastars of 1960s psychedelic rock, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Allman Brothers, eventually becoming close friends with the Fillmore’s master promoter, Bill Graham, who would open doors to many of Mr. Regan’s most enduring rock relationships.
Besides his daughter Suzanne, he is survived by another daughter, Lori Regan-Jorgensen.
Mr. Regan photographed sports figures for many years. His photographs of Muhammad Ali, including a series from the 1975 “Rumble in the Jungle” fight between Ali and George Foreman in Zaire, have been widely reproduced. The archive of his agency, Camera 5, which employed as many as 15 photographers in its 1980s heyday, contains more than 3 million photos.
In a 2010 interview with “Culture Brats,” an online fan magazine, Mr. Regan was asked what makes a picture special. Aside from esthetic choices involved in composition and lighting, he said, “If you’re able to capture an image that nobody else has, then that’s what makes the image important; that’s what people are interested in. You see hundreds of photographs of rock artists on stage, but do you see them on their plane? Do you see them at home? Do you see them backstage? And those are the things that I always wanted to do.”
To get pictures like that, Mr. Regan was known for keeping workaholic hours, never taking vacations and passing a good part of his life alone in darkrooms. His hustle made an impression.
In a memorial post this week on the website GettyImages.com, Harry Benson, the official photographer for the Beatles, remembered landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Feb. 7, 1964, for the Beatles’ first visit to the United States.
“Ken was the first person John Lennon and I saw,” he recalled, “when we looked out the window, as our plane taxied up to the gate.”
Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts, is momentarily distracted by a sound in his drum. Watts performed a series of shows at the legendary Iridium Club in New York. © Roger Barone 2012.
CHARLIE WATTS: IRIDIUM CLUB (June 29, 2012)
CHARLIE WATTS PERFORMING AT IRIDIUM SONG OF THIS PHOTO
Mick Taylor ends his second show of the evening at the Iridium Club with “No Expectations.” Taylor had performed an earlier show. © Roger Barone 1012
MICK TAYLOR: IRIDIUM CLUB (May 12, 2012)
Mick Mick Taylor, former lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones, plays a Gibson Les Paul technique during a series of Sprimg shows at the Iridium Club in New York. The Iridium Club is best known as being the home of the Legendary guitarist and inventor, Les Paul, who designed the very guitar Mick Taylor is playing in this photo. © Roger Barone 2012
MICK TAYLOR: IRIDIUM CLUB (May 12, 2012)
MICK TAYLOR PERFORMING “CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING” (5/12/12) IRIDIUM CLUB
Rolling Stones Photos & Stories From Philadelphia: The City of Brotherly Love 
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