Terry O'Neills career just started a few years before he met The Rolling Stones. As the youngest member of Fleet Street, O'Neills editors wanted him to take photos of the new music groups that were coming-up in the wake of the Beatles. It was Andrew Loog Oldman who called Terry O'Neill to ask him to take shots of a new band he was managing. I could see right away these guys were different, O'Neill remembers. They just looked cool. At first, they weren’t really sure what their style would be and style was important back then. They tried to dress alike, in suits, but that didn’t fit their style. They wanted to be individuals. Terry O'Neill took the band over to the Tin Pan Alley Club in London, legendary home of Britain’s music industry, and captured the band on the brink of superstardom. Terry O’Neill remembers “taking the photos over to [his] editors on Fleet Street and they were horrified! They thought they were ugly and yelled [at O’Neill to get him] a pretty band like the Beatles. Little did they know that some 60 years later, they would still be the greatest band in the world."

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