Philip Townsend, who died at the age of 75, took the first professional photographs of the Rolling Stones. He worked as a photographer from 1960 to 1969, and his eclectic collection of images captured the essence of the swinging 60s when the upper class was mixed with an emerging new elite of actors, musicians and designers. Known as “Mr Sixties”, he photographed mainly in black and white and with a twist of eccentricity. He shot Frankie Howerd on a skateboard, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Jimmy Page and others. during his previous Zeppelin years, members of the aristocracy, cops on a goodwill mission to Monte Carlo, the landmark Biba store in Kensington, scenes in Carnaby Street and models like Linda Keith and Rory Davis.

Philip Townsend, who died at the age of 75, took the first professional photographs of the Rolling Stones. He worked as a photographer from 1960 to 1969, and his eclectic collection of images captured the essence of the swinging 60s when the upper class was mixed with an emerging new elite of actors, musicians and designers. Known as “Mr Sixties”, he photographed mainly in black and white and with a twist of eccentricity. He shot Frankie Howerd on a skateboard, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Jimmy Page and others. during his previous Zeppelin years, members of the aristocracy, cops on a goodwill mission to Monte Carlo, the landmark Biba store in Kensington, scenes in Carnaby Street and models like Linda Keith and Rory Davis.

Philip Townsend, who died at the age of 75, took the first professional photographs of the Rolling Stones. He worked as a photographer from 1960 to 1969, and his eclectic collection of images captured the essence of the swinging 60s when the upper class was mixed with an emerging new elite of actors, musicians and designers. Known as “Mr Sixties”, he photographed mainly in black and white and with a twist of eccentricity. He shot Frankie Howerd on a skateboard, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Jimmy Page and others. during his previous Zeppelin years, members of the aristocracy, cops on a goodwill mission to Monte Carlo, the landmark Biba store in Kensington, scenes in Carnaby Street and models like Linda Keith and Rory Davis.