‘The Rolling Stones 1972: Photographs By Jim Marshall’ Is On Display At The Grammy Museum.

Although it is merely rock and roll, the Grammy Museum enjoys it.

The Rolling Stones’ iconic 1972 tour of the United States and Canada, which coincided with the release of the band’s classic album Exile on Main Street, is legendary. The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live in Los Angeles is commemorating that tour with “The Rolling Stones 1972: Photographs by Jim Marshall,” which opens on Saturday, Nov. 5, and will be on display until June 2023.

“Jim’s masterful eye and unrestricted access captured the Stones in the classic rockstar manner in which we now perceive the band,” said Kelsey Goelz, associate curator at the Grammy Museum. “This display will bring you to the height of crazy rock n’ roll enthusiasm.”

There’s an irony here: Grammy voters were wary of The Stones — and rock in general — throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Surprisingly, the Stones did not win a single Grammy nomination until 1978, when Some Girls was nominated for album of the year.

However, the Academy has long worked to atone. In 1986, the Academy presented the Stones with a lifetime achievement award. They won their first competing Grammys eight years later, winning best rock album for Voodoo Lounge and best music video, short form for “Love Is Strong.” Blue & Lonesome earned their third Grammy in competition five years ago for best traditional blues album.

Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main St., as well as the legendary singles “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965), “Paint It Black” (1966), and “Honky Tonk Women” (1969), were all nominated for Grammy Awards. The Hall of Fame is intended to “celebrate musical records of lasting quality or historical significance,” but it also serves as a second chance for the Grammys to do right by works that were devalued when they were new.

The Academy has also recognised Marshall. He was the first (and still is the only) photographer to receive the Trustees Distinction, an honorary award given to individuals for nonperformance achievements to the music industry, in 2014. That year, he was honoured alongside film composer Ennio Morricone and producer Rick Hall.

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