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'This book is incredible. It takes me back to my first Stones tour.' – Ronnie Wood
In 1975, the Rolling Stones documented their mammoth 40-show Tour Of The Americas – T.O.T.A '75 – in its entirety. A trusted friend and confidante, Christopher Sykes, was brought in to create a visual and written record of their journey.
The group's fascinating work is now available as a magnificent handmade book and boxed set, in an official limited edition published with the Rolling Stones. The result is an enormous archive of largely unseen photographs, a wonderfully descriptive diary and a collection of every piece of tour memorabilia imaginable – including backstage passes and even hotel room keys.
Having known Mick Jagger from the early Sixties, Christopher joined the 40-show tour at the Stones' invitation with instructions to document the tour in its entirety.
'I had absolutely free and total access. I was in a very privileged position because I'd come to keep a diary, I'd been recommended by Rupert Lowenstein and I knew Mick. I was more of a friend than a rock photographer.'
In his role as the tour's official diarist, no area was off-limit for Christopher Simon Sykes. The result is a massive and absorbing 27,000 word narrative to accompany his many hundreds of photographs.
Running throughout the book there are also tour schedules, set lists, budgets, daily newsletters from tour manager Peter 'Commander' Rudge, personnel lists, sight-seeing tickets, night club passes, magazine articles, letters home and postcards - the perfect accompaniment to the diary's words and photographs.
We are excited to announce the final Commander copies, signed by the Stones photographer and diarist Christopher Sykes and tour manager Peter 'the Commander' Rudge, are now available, in celebration of 50 years since the 1975 iconic tour.
The last 200 Commander copies of T.O.T.A 75' are quarter-bound in Italian black leather and feature duotone photographs of the band screen-printed on the front and back covers.
Select from the following editions:
| Commander | £345 |
In 1975 the Rolling Stones wanted to make a book of their forthcoming tour. Now, almost 50 years later it's available in all its glory, as a fabulous and in-depth fine-art piece. The Diary, Photographs and Memorabilia of Christopher Simon Sykes.
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