Blood and Glitter: Photographs from the Seventies - David Bowie, Lou Reed, Freddie Mercury, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger and many more
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Criterion's releasing their Blu-Ray edition of Gimme Shelter today. Here's a piece from 2000, drawn from an interview with Albert Maysles that I conducted along with Amy Cargill . YOU CAN'T ALWAYS SEE WHAT YOU GOT. Thirty years after its coming—as a kind of bookend to both the optimism of the 1960s and the school of American cinema verite—David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin's...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
How's Tina holding up? Better than you. And if you don't own any of her records, you could do a lot worse than this satisfying live set from '08. Trivia: How old was Tina Turner when she performed at Live Aid with Mick Jagger in '85? You remember: Turner and Jagger in a slobbery strut-off -- Tina in black leather; Jagger in hospital sleepware -- both bitching their way through a garbled version of...
Citizens Against ProObama Media Bia (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 30, 2009 Susan Boyle posts/videos/interviews/CD Wild Horses Wild Horses (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted I bought them for you Graceless lady you know who I am You know I can’t let you slide through my hands Wild horses, couldn’t drag me away Wild wild horses couldn’t drag me away I watched you suffer a dull aching [...]
The Locust Fork Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you missed it Sunday, you can still catch it on HBO or the Web. HBO One cool moment with Fergie and Mick Jagger with U2 at Madison Square Garden doing Gimme Shelter… HBO: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Guardian, a year ago: They used to be called ‘mother’s little helpers’, pill prescribed to stressed suburban housewives as a miracle pick-me-up. Now benzodiazepines are proving popular again, this time as an alternative to heroin. The tranquilliser boomed in the Sixties and Seventies as a supposedly safe alternative to barbiturates. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The Rolling Stones are set to go on a world tour next year, if guitarist Ronnie Wood 's Russian girlfriend is to be believed. Although the band hasn't announced anything, Ekaterina Ivanova reportedly let the cat out of the bag last week. "She's not supposed to talk about it, things haven't been finalised but she couldn't resist telling a few friends,"...
Truth to Power (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Sympathy for the Devil Song lyrics by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Performed by "The Rolling Stones" Album: Beggars Banquet (1968) Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long long year stolen many man's soul and faith I was around when Jesus Christ had His moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed His...
outsider ins and... (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
My suspicion is that I knew (after you're dead, you realise when you knew things in life even though, in life, you didn't realise and so, technically, didn't know them) I was crossing over on the day the chicken died. Life is all about losses and gains and sacrifice. God, it turned out, was indeed a mathematician and the trick was to figure out when patterns changed. Taking on mortgages, investments,...
Nightwatcher's House Of Rock (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Rolling Stones, whose last tour finished in 2007, are planning a mammoth run of shows next year, according to Ronnie Wood's cocktail waitress girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova. The 20-year-old Russian waitress – who has been dating 62-year-old Ronnie since he walked out on his 23-year marriage to Jo Wood in July 2009 - has been a little indiscreet in letting the world know about their plans....
New York Post (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
He's seven years older than Mick Jagger, but Silvio Berlusconi's racy lifestyle has earned him the title of Rock Star of the Year. The Italian edition of Rolling Stone awarded the scandal-scarred premier the label in its December issue, which feat...
Download Music For Free Right Now! 100% Legal. (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Bryan Ferry was smitten with model Jerry Hall while writing Roxy Music's fifth album "Siren" - and these songs are wishful, pleading love letters. That's her on the cover. In Greek mythology, if a sailor heard the singing of the beautiful and divine sirens wafting out over the sea, he faced certain death by sailing too close and crashing his boat against the rocky cliffs of the island on...
The Canon's Stall (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Susan Boyle returned to "The X Factor" on Sunday evening. Bloggers will know that X Factor is my weekly dose of flow-over-your-head weekend TV relaxation. Susan Boyle first hit our screens on "Britain's Got Talent" where she originally came second, but here she was back after a gap on Simon Cowell's other programme. The song she chose - or someone chose for her - was, I must say,...
Slashfood (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Filed under: Television/Film Photo: Bravo Like a bad community college class, two weeks of "Chef Academy " -- Bravo's latest experiment in food-competition/sexed-up reality show -- is starting to make us wonder why we signed up in the first place. Actually, make that a bad community college class in L.A., where everyone seems like he or she is permanently out on an audition. Whether it's...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Pop Culture Photographer Ken Regan promised himself that he would never shoot certain kinds of events. However when Keith Richards asked him to document some big events in his life, Regan just couldn't refuse. "I did Keith Richards' wedding, and the three things I said to myself when I got into photography that I would never do were weddings, bar mitzvahs...
scribbit (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Thank you to Amanda at Oh Amanda for judging this month's writing contest, she's terrific and you'll get to read more about her later this week as I interview her. Thank you also to Bath and Body Works for the prize package from their new antibacterial line. But the greatest thanks to the entrants who shared their feelings on being Grateful . I hope you enjoy the entries. . . . And the winner is:...
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