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Photograph by Jim Marshall

The Beatles coming onto the stage of their last concert ever, August 29, 1966, San Francisco. I was the only photographer allowed backstage. When we arrived at the stadium, the band was in an armored car, and I was in another car following, and the old fart groundskeeper at the center field gate wouldn’t let us in – he didn’t know what was going on! So we had to drive around this pretty hardcore ghetto, Hunter’s Point, while things got straightened out, and we finally got in about twenty minutes later.

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Photograph by Jim Marshall

Jim Morrison at the Northern California Folk Rock Festival in San Jose, 1968. I don’t think I ever spoke three words to Morrison. We were on the side of the stage, and I was shooting with just one frame left on the roll, and Jim said, “Hey, Marshall, you want a photo?” and looked right into my camera. He was one of those guys in his own space. I never got close to him. My impression of Morrison was that he was like a C. S. Lewis, spiritual without being religious.

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Photograph by Jim Marshall

The shot of Jimi was taken during a sound check at the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967. Hendrix was playing to an empty arena – or, more accurately, to himself. I was one of the official photographers and, for some reason, everyone was at dinner except Al Kooper, Jimi’s band and crew, and some of the other stagehands. I approached Jimi and told him my name was Jim Marshall – that I was one of the photographers. He made some comment like, “Far out, man, maybe this shit is supposed to be,” and I asked what he meant. He said that the dude who made his amps was named Jim Marshall, and smart-ass me says, “Yeah, I know that.” But then he said, “What you don’t know is that my middle name is Marshall.” We were all pretty stoned (the amp Marshall wasn’t there), but there were three Marshalls onstage at once.

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Photograph by Jim Marshall

During the recording of Exile on Main Street, I was given unlimited access by the Stones. I had just photographed them for Life magazine and knew Keith and Mick pretty well. Jagger could be in the control room and start to say something to Keith, and before the words even came out of his mouth, Keith was doing it on the guitar. I’ve been to a lot of sessions, but I’ve never seen two guys work in synch this way before.

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Originally photographed for a Saturday Evening Post feature in 1963, Monk sits at his piano dressed in a silk robe. The piano was kept in the kitchen of his small, three-bedroom apartment in New York City.

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Miles is in the ring at Newman’s Gym in San Francisco. The gym doesn’t exist anymore. It was like a sister to a famous gym in New York where pros went that was called Stillman’s. At Newman’s Gym, Miles used to work out. He used to box with guys, “Don’t hit me in the mouth, I gotta play tonight.”

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Photograph by Jim Marshall

There are two Janis Joplin photographs with the Southern Comfort bottle – this one where she is smiling and another where she looks really sad – and there’s a mystery about them. They were shot in 1968 backstage at San Francisco’s Winterland – both taken with the same camera and lens, but different rolls. I did not number my rolls in order that night, and to this day I do not know which was taken first. Janis was a great subject to photograph, because she was not afraid of the camera and came alive onstage – that was her world. She was very real and still a little girl when she died, a very famous little girl.

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Photograph by Jim Marshall

I’ve done about four or five album covers for Johnny Cash. On this day John was recording a live album for Columbia Records. The granite walls in Folsom are about eight feet thick, and we had just gotten off the bus and gone through one giant gate into a holding area. Then we went through a second gate, and, when it clanked shut, John said, “Jim, there’s a feeling of permanence in that sound.” After that, I started wondering when we were going to get out of there.

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The Beatles coming off the plane on August 29, 1966, before their last concert.

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Photograph by Jim Marshall

Here’s one of my favorite pictures. John Coltrane, taken at the Berkeley home of Ralph Gleason, the late Chronicle jazz critic in 1960. John and I had met at the Jazz Workshop and we were talking backstage, John says, “Well, I gotta do an interview with Ralph Gleason tomorrow, how do I get to Berkeley.” I said, “I’ll drive you.” So I picked him up at the hotel and drove him, and that’s where I took the pictures.

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Keith Richards during “Exile on Main Street” in 1972. I think this is one of my best photos – the quintessential Keith photo.

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What did Churchill say about Russia? A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma? Well, Dylan is like that. This particular photo was taken one Sunday morning when Bobby, his girlfriend Suze Rotolo, Dave Van Ronk, and Terri Van Ronk all were going to breakfast in New York. Just two frames were shot – no big deal – but I feel it shows Bob was still a kid in 1963. Contrary to popular believe, this shot did not inspire the song “Like a Rolling Stone.” No one really knows where he was coming from, but he’s one of the most brilliant songwriters of our time. The last time I photographed him was in 1980.

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