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  Waiting on a Friend - The Rolling Stones video - 1981

  Location: 96 St. Marks Place (steps) and 132 First Avenue at St. Marks Place (bar)

    (You can click twice on the photos to fully expand them. Then click the left arrow (back page) to get back.

The video begins with Mick standing in the doorway of 96 St. Marks Place, which is on the south side of the street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

St. Marks Place is a 3-block long street in the East VIllage of New York which has long been a haven for the counterculture, including: the Beat Generation (1950's), hippies (the 1960's), and punks (the 1970's-80's). It is the east end of 8th Street that runs through Greenwich Village.

We don't know the names of the three other men sitting on the steps. (if you do, please send them in) It is rumored that Peter Tosh is one of them but we have never found a match of Tosh's face with either of the three men.

If you look at the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album entitled Physical Grafitti, you will see the building where Mick is on the right-hand side. The building to the left on the cover is 98 St. Marks Place. The buildings have very similar fronts, but they are separate tenement buildings. (see pictures down below)

Mick looks back and forth - looking for his friend.

"I'm just standing in a doorway / I'm just trying to make some sense / out of these girls that pass me by . . ."

Keith, who is down the block and across the street, walks past the International Bar & Grill which at that time was located 119 St. Marks Place, on the north side of the street between Avenue A and First Avenue.

Mick . . . still waiting.

Keith now walks by 111 St. Marks Place, a few buildings west of the International Bar, and also between Avenue A and 1st Avenue on the north side.

The greenery in the far distance is Topkins Square Park.

Mick walks down to sit on the steps.

The two guys in back chat amongst themselves.

Keith finally arrives.

And gives Mick a big hug.

Mick and Keith sing along with "Waiting on a Friend" and snap their fingers to the tune.

They get up and say bye to the other guys and head west.

They walk by a blonde guy with a whiffle haircut sitting in the window.

He's drinking a Miller Lite Beer. He doesn't seem to have seen Mick and Keith.

Mick and Keith share a laugh as they approach the corner of 1st Avenue.

They walk by a series of photos from the cover of their album "Tattoo You."

It features headshots of Mick and Keith with Maori-like tattoos on their faces.

The cover art was designed by Peter Corriston (graphic design) and Christian Piper, who did the tattoos. It incorporated photos by Hubert Kretschmar taken in his Tribeca studio on West Broadway.

For a webpage discussing the artwork, click here, which is a link to the website called Rolling Stones Data.

When they reach the southeast corner of St. Marks Place and First Avenue, they preceed to enter the bar that was there at that time: The St. Marks Bar & Grill located at 132 First Avenue (aka 90 St. Marks Place).

At the entrance, they walk past a man having a cigarette next to a payphone.

Some people are in the seating area of the bar. Mick walks up to the counter.

He sings along with the song. Ron Wood is just behind him.

Bill Wyman is at back left.

Here's a better look at Bill Wyman.

Now we see that Charlie Watts is also at the bar.

The gang's all here.

They all sing together.

Everybody now proceeds toward the set of instruments set up at the back of the room.

. . . and they finish singing the song.

Here are the steps empty. (Notice the tea shop at right called "Phyical GraffiTea," named after the Led Zeppelin album cover photographed at the same building.)

Here is an outtake from the shoot by Dave Gahr.

And here are the steps with Keith and Mick and their friends PopSpotted by superimposing the older picture over the modern photo.

The black-and-white photo was taken by Dave Gahr.

Here are some more outtakes of everybody on the steps.

(photo by Dave Gahr)

Keith approaches.

The video was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who also directed over twenty music videos for the Stones as well as several promotional videos for the Beatles, all of which are all listed on his Wikipedia page. He also took the video used on the 8-hour video "Get Back" about the making of the Beatles album.

Keith - almost there. Mick is on a lower step than in the actual video.

(photo by Richard Corkery)

Mick and the other step-sitters relaxing between takes.

(photo by Peter Bennett)

A close-up on the steps.

From a Japanese record.

Mick and Keith

Mick bopping.

Here's a PopSpot of the blond man from the video superimposed into the window today. The store is now (2025) a Tattoo Shop and located at 94 St. Marks Place.

Onlookers watch Keith.

Note the "Bar & Grill" sign on the right, then look at the next picture below.

It's basically the same "Bar & Grill" sign from the early 1940's, when there was an elevated train on 1st Avenue. (It was the lower section of the 2nd Avenue Subway)

The front of the bar in the 1970's.

(photo by Niclas Nilsson)

A man enters the bar in the 1970's. You can see the number 132 (First Ave) over the door.

(photo by Niclas Nilsson)

The St. Marks Bar & Grill in the 1980's. Very colorful!

(photo by Stephen Harmon)

This shows the whole area of filming. The stairs were at left; then came the man in the window (red storefront); then the wall of pictures near the corner, then finally the bar at the corner.

Here's a map of St. Mark's Place showing where the different parts of the video were filmed.

This shows where Keith was when he walked past the International Bar & Grill which was then at 119 St. Marks Place.

Here's another obscure shot of Keith. In this he's actually across the street from the International Bar and Grill. He's in front of 122 St Marks Place on the south side of the street, and walking in the opposite direction of where's he walking in the video.

Perhaps the director had him walk past the International Bar severall times and this was between takes. Unllike in the video, the street seems deserted.

(photo location by Chung Wong, ALex Smith, and Drew Carolin)

This is the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Grafitti.

The photo of the twin tenement buildings is by famed photographer Elliott Erwitt. The buildings are 98 St. Marks Place at left and 96 St. Marks Place at right.

The cover was designed by Peter Corriston, who had to cut out the fourth floor of the buildings to make it fit on the square album cover.

Mick was standing on the right hand doorway for the video of "Waiting on a Friend."

Here's a closer look.

This shows the Led Zeppelin album cover next to a real-life photo of the buildings.

The buildings on the cover are 4 stories high. In real life they are 5 stories high.

The album cover designer deleted the fourth floor of the building on the right, as well as a small part of the top of the facade of that building, to make the buildings fit into a square album cover.

The bar had undergone many changes of look over the years. In this shot, it was a bar called Tribe.

This is what it looks like in 2025. It's a bar/restaurant called The Lions.

Here's what it looks like when you look in the front door.

Here's how it looked after Mick and Keith entered in the video and Mick starts singing and dancing next to the pole.

And here's that shot matched up with a shot I took one night when I had dinner there, sitting in a booth in the front window.

At the end of the video, the Stones go to the back and play along with the song, like a pub band.

Here's another shot of the inside showing where they were playing.

And here we mix in the video shot with the present, over forty years later.