In 1979 McDougall sold her first photo to one of the biggest band in the land, The Angels. In recognition of a 40 year career spent photographing iconic Australian and international musicians, McDougall was the recipient of the inaugural 2018 AWMA (Australian Women in Music Awards) for Best Photographer. Thanks to Canon Australia, McDougall will be presenting a retrospective exhibition of her life’s work in Sydney and Melbourne which will include photographic images of INXS, Crowded House, Paul Kelly and The Church along with many other images chosen from her extensive portfolio. The magazine, launched by Fairfax Magazines in 1984, used McDougall for many of its photo shoots in Sydney. McDougall worked with 1980s and 1990s with Australian music magazine Smash Hits when it was edited by Mediaweek’s James Manning. So much for professional rivalry.The classic Jagger/Richards song and album title “It’s Only Rock’N’Roll (But I Like It)” – sums up the life and working career of music photographer Wendy McDougall, so it is fitting that she has chosen the song as the title for her new exhibition. In the early 1960s, when Jagger and Richards were desperately looking for a hit song they had turned to none other than Lennon and McCartney, who gave them I Wanna Be Your Man, which would become the Stones’s first hit in England. Jagger said a chance encounter with Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr drove him to seek the kind of fame the Beatles had found. I believe real music fans do not pay heed to these comparisons and point to Jagger’s speech when he inducted the fab four into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. As Tom Wolfe wrote: “The Beatles want to hold your hand, but The Rolling Stones want to burn your town.”Ī couple of years back, Howard Stern reignited this debate on his talk show. A lot has been said about the rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. In the early 1960s, they were obsessed with blues and rock ’n’ roll and wanted to play that kind of music, but then came the Beatles. They get their name from a blues number by Muddy Waters called Rollin Stone. One instance would be the Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets that has a scene where Harvey Keitel is dancing with a lady and the song Tell Me is playing.Įvery rock music fan knows how the Stones came into being. When I think of the Stones, I realise movies have also played a big part in me liking their songs. It is this combination of great music and showmanship that has thrilled Stones fans for generations. The magnificent Can’t You Hear Me Knocking makes any rock fan giddy with joy and Taylor’s guitar was out of the world. Mick Taylor also deserves a special mention. During the 1980s when a break up loomed large, it was Wood who kept them going. Last but not the least, Ron Wood, often the glue that held a feuding Jagger and Richards together. And how can one forget The Quiet Stone Bill Wyman’s stellar basslines. What is it about all these old rockers? How do they transcend generations? Is it Mick Jagger’s voice and gyrations or is it Richards’s guitar and spooky persona? It would be a blasphemy to forget founder and virtuoso musician Brian Jones’s influence or to overlook Charlie Watts’s drumming in numerous hits, especially Out of Time.
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