IRELAND. Rarely seen photographs of the Rolling Stones’ 1965 tour of Ireland have gone on display at Dublin Airport, coinciding with the band’s 50th anniversary.
The exhibition opened on Friday, featuring 20 black and white images of the Stones arriving at Dublin Airport, in concert and backstage at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin and at Connolly Station en route to Belfast.
The photos were only seen publicly for the first time a few months ago. The were shot by Padraig MacBrian and Andy Farren, who at the time owned the Dublin-based Lensmen Photographic Agency.
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Now being publicly exhibited for the first time, in Terminal 1, the photos document the band’s two-date tour, with concerts in Dublin and Belfast, featuring the original line up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman.
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) 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.”
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According to Lensmen’s current owner, Susan Kennedy, the pictures “had been filed away and forgotten for several decades” until they were discovered earlier this year.
“It was a long and winding road to find these wonderful images of the Stones as they were hidden away among about 2.6 million negatives in the archive,” she said. “But they are a fantastic find and show the Stones enjoying the first fruits of major success.”
The photographs feature in a 42-page collectors’ edition hardback book produced to coincide with the release of the movie The Rolling Stones Charlie is My Darling – Ireland 1965, and are also available for online purchase at the Dublin Airport’s The Loop retail website.
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