Start it up: the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first gig - Thursday 12 July,1962

The Guardian ^ | Monday 9 July 2012 | Christopher Sandford

[Elle Bee]

In the summer of 1962, the management of the Academy cinema on Oxford Street in London thought it wise to warn patrons that the film they were about to see, the big-screen adaptation of John Wyndham's novel about killer plants, The Day of the Triffids, "contained graphic horror" and "might prove disturbing to those of a nervous disposition". Today, Wyndham's mutant shrubs look blandly innocuous. But on the night of Thursday 12 July, in a basement club called the Marquee, just a few feet below the cinema where the Triffids was screening, something much more unsettling was about to get under way.

[Elle Bee]

Very Cool

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[KevinB]

I read Keef’s book “Life”, he really is a pretty sharp tack, he remembers everything, despite all of the drugs he’s taken over the years.

Ditto. I was pretty impressed.

[KevinB]

Thanks for the ping, fool. I have missed your R&R pings over the last couple of years. You used to be quite prolific. I hope all is well.

[mylife]

LOL!!

[mylife]

Is Phil May still alive?

[a fool in paradise]

Yes, the Pretty Things are still gigging and recording.

Poster from a concert last month.

[Fungi]

Fair enough.