Unseen Nordic Archives
6 total works
In 1963 The Beatles were ready to leave Britain and charm the world. They tried to arrange a tour of Denmark in 1963, but the Danish booking bureaus weren't interested, so instead they went to Stockholm for nine days. In 1964 Beatlemania set the world on fire, and they returned to Stockholm as well as Copenhagen. New material on The Beatles is scarce, but the Unseen Nordic Archives series has uncovered a treasure trove of unknown or rarely used photos from these tours and coupled them with new interviews from the people involved and newspaper articles from local Danish and Swedish papers at the time.
Right after Pink Floyd's smash hit debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (August 1967) the band was sent to Aarhus, Stockholm and Copenhagen on their first tour outside Britain. With their cutting-edge psychedelic music and light shows they created something completely new and exciting wherever they went. This book follows their early tours at humble venues to their return in the following years as one of the biggest rock acts in the world. The Unseen Nordic Archives series has gathered an extraordinary collection of unknown and rarely seen photos from these tours and added new interviews from key people involved plus articles from local newspapers of the time. A must for Floyd fans!
This book takes you through the first two years of the legendary Led Zeppelin's career from their first concert to becoming the biggest rock band in the world with interviews, memories and rare and unseen photgraphs. Fifty years ago on 7th September 1968 the newly formed Led Zeppelin played their first concert ever, under the name "The New Yardbirds". It took place at a Danish school in the Copenhagen suburb of Gladsaxe. And the 1,200 teenagers present at the venue had never heard anything like this. From these humble beginnings the band rocketed into becoming the world's biggest rock phenomenon throughout the 1970's and beyond. The 17 year old photographer Jorgen Angel was present at this first concert and his pictures from the bands Copenhagen shows in 1969 and 1970 tell the story of, not only the band, but also the unfolding of the Danish rock scene. His photographs have gone on to be recognised as some of the most evocative images of the young Led Zeppelin and JImmy Paige himself is a massive fan of the pictures and their representation of those eaely days.
From 1967 until his tragic death in 1970 Jimi Hendrix played 29 concerts in Denmark, Sweden and Finland, quite a few of them at humble venues. This book comprises the best photographs from these concerts selected from the extraordinary photographic archives of Jan Persson, Jorgen Angel and Veronica Hjorth. There are stunning photographs taken both on and off stage that have rarely or never been published before. The narrative is related by the people involved in the shows - the promotors, the roadies and the support bands - as well as reviews from the local newspapers and magazines of the period. An extraordinary document of an extraordinary man.
