As The Stones started Rolling

WHEN photographer Gus Coral looked under his bed he unearthed a treasure trove of unseen pictures of The Rolling Stones - stashed there more than 60 years ago.

- BY MARC BAKER

Fans of the rockers will undoubtedly feel the six decade wait was worth it when 100 candid pictures go on display in London from this Friday in a new exhibition,

Rolling Stones Unseen '63.

The snaps from 1963 show The Stones' first ever tour, before they achieved global fame.

Now 87, Londoner Gus was just 26 when he first encountered the then penniless blues loving band, touring as the support act for their idols Little Richard, Bo Diddley and The Everly Brothers.

Gus said: "I have almost 200 hundred images of The Stones in total which I took after I was invited to photograph them on their first British tour.