Beatles Vs. Stones (2014)

CHRISTIAN MONTONE

"Beatles Vs. Stones" (2014)

Collage on board. 24" X 36"

This is a new personal piece that I created to hang my home.

It contains a mixture of vintage magazine clippings and reproduced images.

I wanted to have some visual fun with the faux-rivalry that The Stones' management 

created to set Mick and the boys apart from that wacky little band from Liverpool. 

Looking back, it was kinda brilliant how the media propagated all of that silly noise.

Details Below:

Rolling With The Stones: 1969 - 1972

Images from two items I scored on eBay recently:

These were bought as source material for a new collage I'm building for my home.

I thought I'd digitally archive them before their contents were sliced up and reordered.

One is a 1970 publication that chronicles the Rolling Stones' ill-fated 1969 tour

while another is simply a very 1972 rock magazine containing music tabs and lyrics 

to popular songs of the day along with articles on the hit-makers that produce them.

The back cover of the latter periodical, which advertises the now-legendary Stones opus 

Exile On Main Street, contains an image from that album's Robert Frank photo layout that 

always manages to astound me with its stark rawness, crudeness, and rather vague intent. 

Further proof that, in this particular era, nobody… but NOBODY rocked like The Rolling Stones.