The Rolling Stones And Brian Epstein
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The Rolling Stones And Brian Epstein

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The Rolling Stones And Brian Epstein
A printed invoice from Universal Programmes Corporation Ltd, 35 Portland Place, London... addressed to: Brian Jones Esq. 102 Edith Grove, SW10, dated: 1st May 1963, for: 'ROLLING STONES GROUP'...Three recording sessions plus materials...less 15 Discount, for the sum of £95.4 shillings; accompanied by a corresponding typescript note [probably from Eric Easton or Andrew Oldham] stating: This is the actual invoice in respect of the recording tapes which I insisted must be purchased from UPC Ltd. at the outset of our association. You will note that once again, the invoice is addressed to Brian Jones - establishing again that he was the appointed leader of the group at that time; and a printed Eric Easton Ltd...Emergency Contract with typescript details, dated: 7th July 1963, between NEMS Enterprises Limited and THE ROLLING STONES, agreeing to a one day performance at: [the] Tower Ballroom, New Brighton..on: August 30th, 1963, for a salary of £60 and stipulating that the Stones should:...perform for a total of 1½ hours in two equal spots..., signed in blue ink by Brian Epstein, 1p. (3)
Literature
As Years Go Bill Wyman and Richard Havers article in Record Collector, No.287, July 2003, pp.31-32
ELLIOTT, Martin The Complete Rolling Stones Recording Sessions, London: 2002, Cherry Red Books
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Lot Essay

The recording session documented by the invoice in this lot, occurred during a key few days in the group's history. Three days earlier on April 28th, 1963 the Stones were introduced to Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton at The Crawdaddy Club who signed them to a management deal a week later. As Bill Wyman remarked ...It was a meeting that would change everything. What would have happened if they had not become our managers is impossible to guess...things would have been very different without Andrew's flair for promotion.... Four days following the session, Dick Rowe, the Head of A&R at Decca went to the Crawdaddy to see the Stones perform -- a few days later he signed them up with their first recording contract with Impact Sound, a subsidiary of Decca.

The session to which the recording invoice refers is believed to have been one organised by Georgio Gomelsky to accompany a promotional film he intended to make himself on the blues scene. Apparently the Stones' track All Right Babe was used as background to the documentary but the film was never completed.

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