I’ve been rummaging around in one of my cupboards and found a photo album that’s been lying their for more than ten years. The album contains about twenty photos of rock acts thast visited Stockholm, Sweden, in 1966 and 1967 taken by my friend and colleague Sten Sundberg and a mate of his whom he would not name. Sten gave me these photos some twenty plus years ago together with a paper bearing the autographs of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

What I’ve found going through these pictures are some fascinating, but rather amateurish, pictures of some of rock music greats. There’s Otis Redding on stage at Stockholm’s Konserthus in June 1967, together with Donald “Duck” Dunn and Steve Cropper. There’s a nice profile portrait of Manfred Mann and another of the Manfred’s singer Paul Jones from a consert at Stockholm’s Nalen on 29th December 1966, Mick Jagger wearing a velvet jacket and holding his maraccas and Charlie Watts at his drums from one of the two shows at Kungliga Tennishallen on April 3rd 1966. Then there’s The Who’s Keith Moon bashing away and John Entwistle playing bass also from the Kungliga Tennishallen but on May 6th 1967.

Sten managed to follow the Spencer Davis Group around after their concert at Gröna Lund in February 1967 and even followed them to Arlanda Airport to see then fly back to England.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience played many gigs in Sweden. Sten and his mate were at Gröna Lund on May 24th 1967 when the Experience played there and managed to get on the tour bus with the band as they were whisked awat to Swedish Radio for a late night recording. Once there, they had to wait for the studion to be ready and they sat in reception and drank a bottle of Johnny Walker whisky. The band signed the back of one of Swedish Radio’s studio play sheets for Sten.

Otis Redding, Duck Dunn & Steve Cropper on Stage in Stockholm.

Three Rolling Stones in Stockholm on 3rd April 1966.

One half of The Who at Kungliga Tennishallen, 1967.

Manfred Mann and Paul Jones, Nalen, December 1966.

The Spencer Davis Group in action, February 1967.