Back in 1964 the Stones embarked on their first U.S. tour, in support of their self-titled debut record. Sixty years later they are, astoundingly, back it at. Will the 2024 U.S. tour be the last for band that has brought satisfaction —and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction“—to so many? It certainly could be, although at this it seems unwise to ever question the longevity of a band that has been carrying on this long.

Of course, as the photos in this collection show, the band has changed over the years. In early photos from Walter Daran and LIFE staff photographer John Loengard, the band’s lineup includes Brian Jones, a founding member who would dismissed from the band in 1969 and later drown in a swimming pool. Also shown in photos across the band’s eras is Charlie Watts, the elegant drummer who was there from the beginning and died in 2021.

But all these decades later, frontmen Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are still at it, despite both being 80 years old. Their longevity is a rock and roll miracle, when you think about it, surviving as they have in a business that has a way of chewing people up.

In 2024 the Stones released a new album, their first since 2005 and their 31st studio effort overall, called Hackney Diamonds. What else would they do but get out on the road to support it?

The Rolling Stones performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1965.

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The Rolling Stones perform on a chandelier-filled set on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show,’ May 2, 1965. From left, guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones, singer Mick Jagger, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts.

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Drummer Charlie Watts during a Rolling Stones performance at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York, 1966.

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Brian Jones during a Rolling Stones performance at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York, 1966.

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Mick Jagger performed during a 1966 Rolling Stones concert.

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Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones performed at Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, 1985.

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Mick Jagger and Tina Turner performed together at Live Aid in Philadelphia, 1985.

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The Rolling Stones in concert: Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman.

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Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones performed in 1989.

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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

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Mick Jagger during the Rolling Stones’ ‘Voodoo Lounge’ tour, 1994.

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Mick Jagger performed during The Rolling Stones’ 1994 “Voodoo Lounge” tour.

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Keith Richards took center stage during the Rolling Stones’ ‘Voodoo Lounge’ tour, 1994.

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Keith Richards during the 1994 “Voodoo Lounge” tour, 1994.

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Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones during band’s ‘Voodoo Lounge’ tour, 1994.

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But it quickly became clear that O’Keeffe demanded more attention. Though O’Keefe—born Nov. 15, 1887 in a Wisconsin farmhouse—had been painting through much of the 1920s and ’30s, she was starting to become a more of a household name outside of the New York art world. (The phrase household name does not do full justice today. She died in 1986, and in 2014 her painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million, establishing a record-high price for a female artist.)

Back in ’66 Loengard was dispatched back to New Mexico, to the artist’s other home at Ghost Ranch, and the result was a cover story and 13-page photo spread in the March 1, 1968 LIFE magazine. 

“She became a celebrity because of her independence, because of the way she engineered her life in such a simple way that she looked like a role model for counterculture lifestyle, and LIFE played that up in those pictures,” said Wanda M. Corn, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum and a Stanford University professor emerita in Art History. The spread “hit a nerve in ’68 with people who wanted to leave urban living and who are beginning to think about sustainable lifestyles that aren’t dependent on modern technology. The hippies are about ready to emerge, the feminists are about ready to emerge this is part of a new public for her. It’s only really late in her life that she becomes famous to people who know nothing about art, when they discovered her through something like LIFE.”

Loengard recalled what it was like to photograph her in 1966 and 1968 at her two homes in New Mexico:

She drove me over to Ghost Ranch for lunch, and I hadn’t taken my cameras out because I wanted her to feel as if what I was interested in was different from other photographers. I wanted it to be something that would interest her. So she started talking about her morning and evening walks and how she would kill rattle snakes on the walks and collect the rattles. She brought them out in tiny match boxes. I said, “Do you mind if I take a picture of the matchboxes?” My manners were impeccable.

I left after lunch and came back at dawn the next morning to go on a morning walk with her. And from there, we got along for three days. She had just finished a picture of clouds, fluffy clouds, and she wanted to know whether I liked it, so we talked about planes and her trip to Indonesia. She had a reputation of being a hermit, but she couldn’t have been more friendly, and I was surprised that she had a very good, wry sense of humor that would come out when she’d remark about New York or the weather. She smiled a great deal, but I only took one photograph of her laughing.

One of the things that interests me now is the picture I took of her holding a favorite rock that she told me she stole from Eliot Porter, a famous nature photographer, on a rafting trip. I think that’s a very striking picture. [The rock] is not the kind of thing you’d think of as inspiring to a painter. Her work in general, was that she just took what interested her, or that she happened to walk by and notice, or that came to her in the mail. It’s the same thing as how she loved to get packages from Neiman Marcus because in those days they were packaged very flamboyantly, with paper flowers that she kept and hung up in her bedroom at Ghost Ranch.

One of the reasons I was eager to photograph her is that I have great admiration for the work of Alfred Stieglitz [a prominent photographer to whom she had been married]. She refused to talk about him, and the only thing she’d talked about was her role as being in charge of making sure laundry was collected and done at the Stieglitz family’s house in the Adirondacks. She was interested to know if I knew about the New York art scene, but once she found out that I didn’t have gossip about the people she knew in the painting scene, she clearly didn’t want to be bothered by all the boys back East.

The pictures were received very well when I got back but it took a year and a half before anyone made a layout because it was thought to be a small story. A year and a half later, [the LIFE editors] decided we should try to do a cover, so I went out to Ghost Ranch again with Dorothy Seiberling, the art editor. The only place I could think of that we hadn’t been was the roof of her house, which you get to by climbing a rustic, wooden ladder, and there she was, halfway climbing down the ladder.

So in the picture [on the cover], she looks like she’s at rest, but she isn’t really. She is sort of coiled.

The photo of Georgia O’Keeffe that graced the cover of the March 1, 1968 issue of LIFE.

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Georgia O’Keeffe at her home in New Mexico, 1968.

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A pig’s skull adorned a wall in Georgia O’Keeffe’s home.

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Overhead beams shadowed the wall of a roofless courtyard at Abiquiu, N.M.

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Georgia O’Keeffe in her studio at Abiquiu.

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s studio at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

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Georgia O’Keeffe rummaged through piles of photographs.

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s studio, 1968.

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Georgia O’Keeffe had a morning visitor at the ranch.

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Georgia O’Keeffe picked vegetables at Abiquiu.

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A collection of antlers, skulls and bones on a window sill at Ghost Ranch, artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s home.

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Georgia O’Keeffe in her garden.

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Ghost Ranch, the desert home of artist Georgia O’Keeffe.

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Georgia O’Keeffe at home with her pet chows.

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A chow trotted across the sage-blown patio.

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A basketful of vegetables was readied for use at the ranch.

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A favorite stone and a favorite belt.

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Georgia O’Keeffe in the bedroom at Abiquiu.

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“That may explain why an image of a brief moment, an instant in time, can hold our interest forever,” he writes.

Loengard’s latest book is a survey that takes a closer look at a variety of the many iconic images he has created during the last 60 years. It is filled with quiet, intimate moments, from a laughing Marilyn Monroe to a young boy turning his head at the sound of his mother calling. All of his subjects, whether famous or unknown, are treated with the same careful, thoughtful eye catching the moments in between.

Pictured on the cover is the famous photo of the Beatles in a swimming pool at Miami Beach in 1964. This photo in fact never ran on the cover of LIFE magazine – although as illustrated here, it is certainly cover worthy but ran in the back of the book as a Miscellany. (“I never thought it was a terrific photograph,” Loengard told LIFE.com a few years ago. “It’s not a very expressive picture at all, in my opinion. But given the history and the appeal of the people in it, it keeps cropping up, year after year.”)

John Loengard was a staff photographer for LIFE magazine from 1961 to 1971 and went on to be the Picture Editor from 1978-1987. Moment by Moment  was published by Thames and Hudson.

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr of the Beatles took a dip in a swimming pool.

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Louis Armstrong got a beer and a haircut at his neighborhood barbershop in Queens, New York City, 1965.

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Marilyn Monroe blessed the cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Time-LIFE building with her presence. New York City, 1957.

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England’s Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh wait with their hosts, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and his son, the Crown Prince, before they enter the New Cathedral of St. Mary of Zion. Axum, Ethiopia, 1965.

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The boy turns his head as he hears his mother’s call from down the street. Manchester, England, 1968.

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Dr. Timothy Leary with his wife, at the commune where he lived near Palm Springs, California, 1969.

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Buckminster Fuller, architect and inventor, ferries houseguests to Bear Island, which his grandmother bought in 1904 and remained his family seat; Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1970.

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Builder Victor Westphall constructed a chapel in memory of his son David, a Marine lieutenant killed four years earlier in Vietnam. Eagle Nest, New Mexico, 1972.

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At twenty-two, Twiggy said she was quitting modeling for acting. “You can’t be a clothes hanger for your entire life,” she said. Outside New York City, 1972.

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Tom Nesbitt tends his bar. Doheny & Nesbitts Pub, Dublin, 1987.

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Richard Avedon sits in his studio before a wall of miscellaneous clippings and his portrait of oil field worker Roberto Lopez. New York City, 1994.

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Born during the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887), the span of O’Keeffe’s life (she died in 1986, at 98, in New Mexico) seemingly encompassed not mere decades, but ages: the invention of the airplane, two world wars, the Cold War, the Space Race and the introduction of the personal computer. So much of her work the huge flowers; the sun-bleached skulls; the brilliant, near-abstract nature studies; the sensuous pottery is so distinctive that categorizing her, or placing her in one school or another, is impossible.

If any artist ever followed her own vision, no matter where it took her, it was O’Keeffe.

Here, LIFE.com looks at a single photograph John Loengard‘s astonishing 1967 portrait of the artist as an old woman that somehow manages to suggest, in one frame, Georgia O’Keeffe’s willful isolation, her breathtaking self-possession and her singular place in the American consciousness.

Loengard’s unforgettable picture made on the roof of O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch home in northern New Mexico is far more than just a study, or a sketch, of a formidable figure. Framed against the sky and desert, seated before a chimney that feels, in its simplicity, almost totemic, the black-clad O’Keeffe seems carved into the photograph, as much a part of the severe Western landscape as the rocks, sand and sagebrush that surrounded her. She might have been sitting there for an hour, or for a thousand years.

Of the many, many fine and not infrequently iconic portraits that LIFE magazine published through the years, Loengard’s picture of O’Keeffe is one of the very greatest.

In a March 1968 cover story on O’Keeffe (Loengard’s rooftop portrait graced the issue’s cover), LIFE devoted more than a dozen pages to the artist, hoping to illuminate for its readers what the magazine called “the interlocking of her life and art”:

Light edges over the darkened cliffs. Through the sage a woman walks silently, a stick in her hand to ward off snakes. She scans the mists in the far-off mountains. She picks up a stone and smooths it, touches the twisted branch of a piñon tree, toes a patch of lichen. Two smoke-toned chows watch and sniff, then jounce knowingly after their mistress. Another day has begun for Georgia O’Keeffe.

For the better part of three decades, this has been the ritual of one of the most distinguished pioneers of modern American art, a painter still vigorous in her 81st year. Ranging between her two homes in New Mexico an adobe “villa” in Abiquiu and a desert ranch to the north George O’Keeffe renews each day her passionate ties to the land. From these encounters has come a steady outpouring of paintings, many of them now classics in U.S. museums. Whether emphatically realistic or starkly abstract, fantasies of nature or landscapes of the mind, these works distill not only her experience but something of her strong, adventurous spirit.

TIME’s Richard Lacayo, meanwhile, had this to say about O’Keeffe on the occasion of a major 2009 show of her work at the Whitney in New York:

The Whitney’s colorful show puts aside the Georgia O’Keeffe we know best the Gray Lady of New Mexico to retrieve an O’Keeffe we ought to know better, the young woman who went fearlessly down the road of entirely abstract art in 1915, when it was a fresh idea with which only a few artists anywhere in the world were experimenting. Her taut vertical thunderbolts and giant crests of rainbow colors are like campaign banners being unfurled by an artist who has set herself and the art of painting entirely free.

Freedom from cliché, from stasis, from the expected and the tame has always been the aim and the spur of the greatest artists. In Loengard’s elemental portrait of a woman who long ago slipped the bonds of convention, that freedom is seen for what it truly is: sober, essential, invincible.

Georgia O’Keeffe photographed on the roof of her Ghost Ranch home in New Mexico, 1967.

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