tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94528502011-12-15T03:13:02.670Z*** Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World - The Rolling Stones ***BigStoneFanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14957104227201783677noreply@blogger.comBlogger1851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9452850.post-1125372233295461102005-08-30T04:17:00.000+01:002005-08-30T04:23:53.306+01:00

Well I've now heard both shows (LIKE THE ROLLING STONES BBC radio 2). And they did not disappoint.Nothing earth shattering revealed. Mostly stuff you already knew about your favorite band - The Rolling Stones, but good and lots of snatches of conversations with Mick, Keith, Ronnie, Charlie and also Don Was.What I found very noticeable was the blanking out of previous members of the Rolling Stones

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Things to Remember for Rolling Stones Concert 43 thousand people are expected to attend the Rolling Stones concert in Ottawa on Sunday evening. Now that's a fair few people. The Rolling Stones add another 15 dates to US tour More US shows from the Stones. Go on boys, show 'em you've still got it, and in spades.BBC radio 2 tonight (Saturday) 2133 – 2230 LIKE THE ROLLING STONES. Second part

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Well it happened. The first night of the Rolling Stones new world tour. And by all accounts it went with a BANG.Seems that they kicked off with a rendition of Start Me Up, now I could be wrong, but haven't the boys done that before? Like used that number to open their shows on maybe one or three other Rolling Stones world tours? Still I don't suppose there is a song better suited.It's reported

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Don't have time to post this, but I'm posting it anyway.I heard yet another track from the new Rolling Stones album A Bigger Bang.Yes! Like it. Not as much as Rough Justice or Back of my Hand but, it's good, very good. Infinitely better than Streets of Love.First impression on the one hearing - Sort of reminded me of the Rolling Stones of 'Miss You' in a way. Lots of funky guitar work, mixed very

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A bit of news about Brian Jones Police Reinvestigate Rolling Stone's Death I heard it at last - the other half of the new Rolling Stones single - 'Rough Justice', and ... it's bloody good. Far, far better than 'Streets of Love'. It's raunchy and really rocks along.Why then are all the DJ's only playing 'Streets of Love'? Could it be perhaps, one or two of the lyrics on 'Rough Justice'? 40 odd

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Sorry about the double posting of my last post.Here be a few more Rolling Stones news links... Schwarzenegger to Rock With Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones play modest gig Stones play Marley

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Well folks you can't have failed to noticed that I've been slack with making posts to rolling-stones-world of late.I don't suppose anyone has been heartbroken about that fact, but the thing is that life is making things a little difficult at the moment. So......I'm taking a bit of a break. No posts for a couple of weeks, Sorry but there it is.That is unless something really big happens in the

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Well this is all a bit beyond an ol' ludite like myself but it seems that most Rolling Stones tracks are available as downloads. All Greek to me, gimme vynal 45's.You can even get the new Rolling Stones single online.Two outfits are arguing who has the bigger stones catalog.

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"'Allo, 'allo, 'allo. Who have we got 'ere then?" "Your one o' them Rolling Stones, aren't You?" " What's this in your pocket? Why bless my sole, it looks very much like certain substances to me?" "What 'ave you got to say for yerself, you 'orrible long 'aired lout?"" I've never seen that before, I don't know how it got there""Oh, that's a good one that is. You and some o' them other Rolling

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I finally heard it, Streets of Love that is. Just the once so far, but...... Oh Dear! It's dismal, to be polite. This is definitely not the 'rough raw sound' of the Rolling Stones of yesteryear. In fact it sounded like a reject from Voodoo Lounge!And if it is anyway representative of 'A Bigger Bang' then that will be another Rolling Stones album that just don't cut it.As I said I've only heard it

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A wee bit more news on the Rolling Stones new album "A Bigger Bang"It has been said that the title of the album reflects the Stones "fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe." Yes, of course it does.One site is reporting that many of the tracks on "A Bigger Bang" just have Mick, Keith and Charlie on them! And that...... the only other musicians that appear on the

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Well, just when you think that you know all the news on the Rolling Stones, more news comes in.It seems that the new single rolling-stones-world Thursday, July 21 ... is going to be a double 'A' side (they don't have 'sides' now, I know!) - 'Streets of Love/Rough Justice' I ain't heard neither yet! :-(I was about to write that the only other Rolling Stones double 'A' side single was double good

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"Well a poor boy took his father's bread and started down the roadTook all he had and started down the road"It's back yet again to one of my all time beloved Rolling Stones albums. Yep, once again we delve into that golden era of Stones albums, and into Beggars Banquet in particular.Prodigal Son - The sound of an elderly black blues singer's voice comes out the speaker, but this is a Rolling

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Well, so far anyway there seems to be only one news site reporting this piece of Rolling Stones news, so.... it may not be your actual fact.FMQB Only a paragraph or so, as you will see, says the Stones will have a new single shipped out to radio stations tomorrow. They say the song is 'Rough Justice'.There has been nothing on the radio about a new Rolling Stones single, but then the news here has

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The news today is that the Rolling Stones are releasing their new studio album later this year (September). But we knew that already didn't we.The album, the Stones first studio release since 1997's Bridges to Babylon, is said by some news sites to be named Neo-Con (title of one of the tracks), but others are saying that the Rolling Stones haven't settled on the album title yet.The whisper is

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"Spending too much time awayI can't stand another day"This was 1966. Tracks were meant to be about two and a half mins long. Sure, you got some album tracks that exceeded this, but about four mins was the absolute longest.Then there was the Rolling Stones Aftermath album - and Going Home.The song did not end, it kept on and on. Started out a nice poppy tune, not your classic Rolling Stones blues

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Moncton's director of community services says there will be a miniature hospital on the site of the Rolling Stones concert due to take place on September 3rd.The Canadian city is rolling out complex planning for the Stones show, the 65,000 tickets sold out in just two days... And there is pressure on the city to stage a second Rolling Stones gig. 78 per cent of Stones fans attending the concert

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"Here it comes". That, I thought, was the title of the new Rolling Stones single. I was listening to one of those ultra small transistor radios (as we used to call them) that ran on four penlight batteries and gave you a very scratchy, tinny sound.Next time I heard it I learned the title was in fact Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown.Naturally I bought the disc as soon as I could, as I did with all the

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Two news items that connect to the Rolling Stones.It seems that Keith Richards is to play Johnny Depp's dad after all. This has been on/off will he/won't he and I thought the last news was that Keith had missed his chance to be a pirate.This story - Keith Richards to play Depp's dad - says that Keith has been convinced personally by the Pirates of the Caribbean star to appear in the two sequels,

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"I'm glad I opened your eyesThe have-nots would have tried to freeze you in ice"The Rolling Stones had enjoyed a nice run of high flying singles when they decided to release this one. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? was not a flop, not by a long chalk, but not their biggest success either. It did climb briefly to No.5 in the UK but only made No.24 in the USA.What the heck

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Two of Charlie Watts' stablehands have been found dead in puzzling circumstances near the Rolling Stones drummer's stud farm.A police report says the two men were last seen alive on Sunday evening riding two horses through Elder Park which is close to Charlie's farm in Torrington, Devon.Devonshire police believe that the men, both Poles, stopped at the pond to cool off the horses and may have

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"Love comes at the speed of lightLove comes in a strange disguise"I don't know about you, but Continental Drift has always seemed to me to be a through back to the Rolling Stones of 'Their Satanic Majesties' rather than the time that it was actually recorded and released on Steel Wheels.This track features The Master Musicians of Jajouka a group of Moroccan musicians. Their first connection with

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Quick Rolling Stones news item.Tickets for the Stones Hollywood Bowl show, will be the most expensive ever in rock'n'roll history says this news site Stones' seat hike The story says that fans will have to pay $4 a minute to watch the show - but even with that all 18,000 seats for the Rolling Stones concert in November are expected to sell out fast.The Stones have become the most profitable live

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"I'm so sick and tiredOf hanging around with dogs like you"All About You - all about who?This ballad sung by Keith is very highly rated by many Rolling Stones fans. It's good, it's very good, all of Keith's tracks are good. But I wouldn't put it among the best of Keith's stuff... but I may be in a minority of one!Question is, who is this song about? I've always taken it to be about Anita

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"This play is run my loveYour time has come my love"There's nothing like a good minuet to get you all fired up :0) Well, when an Elizabethan tune comes from the Rolling Stones it has got to be good stuff.Released on the Aftermath album in 1966 this track was a bit of a surprise. It is a complete change of pace for the Rolling Stones, no drum track, no bass and not an electric guitar in sight (or

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Unusually hot here in the UK this weekend. Not complaining about that, I love the heat. But I was stuck indoors for most of it with this and that to do. So...I had the CD player on, hope I didn't annoy the neighbors tooo much, I didn't if they have any musical taste 'cause I was playing the Rolling Stones mostly.Went though the years from the Rolling Stones very early discs up to the later stuff.

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"Our lives are threatened, our jobs at riskSometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist"This Rolling Stones single was released at the time of the Gulf war and was seen as a criticism of it. So it did suffer very heavily from a distinct lack of air play - and consequently was not a hit (at least not in the UK, and I don't think it charted in the USA.)Shame, because 'Highwire' is a good rocker,

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Quick post.Nearly 25,000 fans have signed an online petition calling for a second Rolling Stones concert in Moncton, Canada.About 70,000 tickets sold out in just a few hours for the Sept. 3 concert at the Magnetic Hill site. Now there is pressure for the Rolling Stones to perform a second gig at the city.Here's the story Signing up for Stones

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In my CD player - No Security. You know how it is, you do a studio album, do a tour to promote the album, and follow it up with a live album. Thus it was with the Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon tour, No Security was the live album from that.I hummed and ah'ed a bit before I bought this one. There are three songs on it from B2B, Saint of Me, Thief in the Night, Flip the Switch and Out of

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"There've been so many girls that I've known"I know Heart of Stone from the UK version of Out of Our Heads. It was on the Rolling Stones - Now album in the States and also released as a single there. Reportedly because Little Red Rooster did not get much airplay due to...... suggestive lyrics! Did you think them particularly suggestive? I didn't, maybe I'm missing something."What's different

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Must be hard being the lead singer of a group, particularly hard being the frontman for a supergroup like the Rolling Stones. Actually, must be hard being any member of the Stones. Hard that is not to grow yourself a super ego.There has been more than one period when it has looked like the Rolling Stones had reached the end of the road, that they were about to call it a day. A couple of these

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The Rolling Stones are adding arena shows to their tour itinerary for New York and Chicago. Tickets for the stadium shows in both cities have already sold out. The extra shows will be at New York's Madison Square Garden and at Chicago's United Center.The tickets for the additional Rolling Stones gigs go on sale 10/06/05 (Friday). Members of the Rolling Stones fan club get first choice. It is

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Oh Yes! This track is a beaut! A fantastic piece of writing, poetry set to music with a country air.As any Rolling Stones fan will know this was the first time that Keith Richards took lead vocal. Yep, I know he sang the first verse of Salt of the Earth, but You Got The Silver was the first time without Mick. (I've read that the Rolling Stones did do a version of this with Mick singing, but don't

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I missed them both. The birthdays of...Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood and Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. How could I do that, didn't I tell you that I always miss birthdays?On June 1st Ron Wood turned 58. He is, as you know the youngest of (and the newest) of the Stones. Ron is the jester of the Rolling Stones, always clowning onstage and at public appearances. He still displays the

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I can remember getting home with my copy of the Rolling Stones newest single, a fast paced rocker entitled - 19th Nervous Breakdown. This was in 1966 in the far off days of vinyl 45's, and one of the first things that you did was flip the record over to see what was on the other side.I can clearly remember my reaction - "Huh! The Rolling Stones have recorded 'As Tears Go By' Why?Not that I didn't

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All tickets are sold for the Rolling Stones gig at Moncton Canada. That's 75,000 or 70,000 depending which news report you read. But......there may be a few more available. Seems a city official will check out the concert site later in the month to see if even more Stones fans can be jammed in.As fans will be allowed to soak up a beer or three while they are soaking up the music of the Rolling

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One man who perhaps does not get enough mention in www.rolling-stones-world.blogspot.com is Michael Kevin Taylor. OK, let's put that right. Mick Taylor, the son of an aircraft worker, was raised in the North London suburb of Hatfield. When he was nine years old his parents took him to see the legendary rock 'n' roll act Bill Haley and the Comets (whether this was in the film 'Rock Around the

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Latest news is that the case has finally been closed on the murder at the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway Police had kept the case open believing that an unidentified second man had inflicted fatal stab wounds to Meredith Hunter. But after watching the Stones film "Gimme Shelter", they now conclude that only one person killed the young black man. CASE CLOSED ON ROLLING STONES

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Oh Baby is actually the proper tile of this track but I can't help thinking of it as We Got a Good Thing Goin'. This mighty fine cover appeared in the USA on The Rolling Stones Now!, but in the UK on Out of Our Heads (which was a totally different album to the American release of the same name.)Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, and despite the fact that ALO had no experience of producing, and as

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Seems like there's disagreement over what the new tour is to be called. Some folks are reporting that it'll be called the Rolling Stones : Onstage tour, others are saying it'll be the Satisfaction tour.Whichever, tickets are selling like ... well, Rolling Stones tour tickets! There are reports of extra dates being added to those already announced for the American leg.I wonder how much those

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Everybody describes Mr. Charlie Watts as a gentleman and a gentle man. These days the Rolling Stones drummer certainly dresses the part of an upper cut gentleman.Favoring well cut Saville Row suits for publicity photos in contrast to the other Stones in their more showy casual gear. On stage with the Rolling Stones though Charlie wears a simple T-shirt and jeans, more practical for hitting the

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No, I'm not bloging about that track of that title from Goats Head Soup, mayhap someday, but not today.Just reminiscing, as us old blokes do, and thinking that it does indeed seem like 100 years ago I first got into the music of the Rolling Stones. And...... I'm thinking nothing, but nothing, has changed. Back then the controversy was the length of the Rolling Stones hair and their scruffiness.

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Already tickets for the upcoming Rolling Stones tour are commanding big bucks, mucho money, large lucre. And they ain't even on sale to the general public yet.Sellouts were reported for the Stones shows in Boston, Atlanta, Charlotte, Calgary and Washington.The European leg of the tour is yet to be announced, just sketchy information that it will be summer 2006, but earliest opportunity I'm gonna

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Hand into the CD draw, the Rolling Stones section, which of course the biggest section, and what do we grab? Some girls.Okay, good random choice. Now lets pick a track to blog about. Hmmm, how do I make a choice from this Rolling Stones album, there ain't a bum track on it. Don't mean that it's my choice as one of the Stones best albums like Exile, Beggars, Bleed and Rolling Stones No 1 (

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Sweet Black Angel didn't grab me the first dozen or so playings. I liked the track well enough, but did not get into it in the same way that some of the other tracks on Exile on Main Street. But...... as with a lot of other Rolling Stones music I grew to love it.This is the Rolling Stones experimenting a bit, as they often do, and as is often the case the results of their experiment is a very

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Moving away a little from news about the Rolling Stones new tour and all.Irelandonline.com report that the Stones do in fact give their support to the Stephen Woolley film Stoned about the short life of Rolling Stones guitar man Brian Jones.This is in complete contrast to everything else that I've read, or heard, about the film. I read that it was because the band didn't endorse the bio-pic

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Quick update and correction to my blog post of Tuesday. I wrote that tickets for the Rolling Stones tour will go on sale this weekend, they won't be available until noon May 21st apparently. Unless...... you are a member of the Rolling Stones fan club then you can get your tickets a little earlier, seems fair enough.Also, and I've only seen this on one news site so don't take it as gospel - At

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As everyone expected the Rolling Stones announced their world tour today at a press conference at the Juilliard School of Music New York.The Stones played a brand spanking new song Oh No Not You Again at the media bash, this is expected to be on the forthcoming new Rolling Stones album. They also performed Brown Sugar and Start Me Up.The only dates that are definitely definite are approximately

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The radio played the Flying Burrito Brothers version of Wild Horses which caused me to slip my copy of Sticky Fingers in to the player. Both renditions are great, I think the Rolling Stones version is a little darker, a little more blues mixed with the country. Guess which one I prefer?The Flying Burrito Brothers version actually came out first in 1970. Wild Horses was written by Mick and Keith

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Just a quick blog.There was I thinking I was up to date on news about the Rolling Stones. Listening to the radio, or rather sat at this computer with the radio on in the background, I hears ... 'Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones...'.That made my ears prick up. It was a film review program and they were discussing the new Brian Jones bio-pic, except the title was 'Stoned'. It seems that the

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Just by way of change from blogging about the Rolling Stones golden era, this one is about a track that's a little more up to date.Saint of Me is of course from Bridges to Babylon. One of the better tracks from this album which is definitely not Exile.Something I'd not noticed. Look on the track listings, Keith does not play on Saint of Me! The guitars are handled by Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and

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News from this site Jam Canoe is that it looks like the Rolling Stones are to announce the details of their upcoming world tour on May 10 in New York City.I wonder what gimmick they will use this time. Last tour the band dropped into New York in a big yellow airship with the Rolling Stones tongue logo on the side. Years back the Stones promoted a world tour by being driven around the streets of

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Just been playing Flashpoint. And that got me a thinking...How many live albums have the Rolling Stones issued? Personally I've got Flashpoint, Still Life and No Security, love them all, and also the UK EP Got Live if you Want It ... the first live recording I ever got.I haven't yet got Get Your Ya Ya's Out, which is inexcusable for a Rolling Stones fan. I also have not got Live Licks, I'd snap

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Yet again I find myself wanting to blog about a song from the Rolling Stones 'golden period'. Mayhap it's because these tracks from 1967 - 1970ish are in my blood, part of me so to speak - or is it simply because the Stones produced far better music then?I don't know the answer to that, sometimes I am sure that was the period that the Rolling Stones were at their peak and they may still be the

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Bill Whyman has made the news today, claiming that life with the Rolling Stones was not 'only rock 'n' roll'.The 68 year old ex Stones bass player is now saying that many of those stories about the band were exaggerated - "To be in a band and be world famous is hard work. You are not lying by a pool drinking champagne, being served Beluga caviar and with a host of girls around."Hard work being in

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Well as there does not seem to be any new news on the Rolling Stones I may as well blog about my absolute all time favorite Stones track.Please allow me to introduce ... Sympathy for the Devil. Okay you might just find me saying that some other Stones masterpiece is the one I like the best at that particular moment, but mostly Sympathy gets my vote and has done for many a long year. This is the

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Many sorrys for the absence of this blog over the past few days.Somehow some nasty little bugs (spyware) got themselves onto my computer. I tried Norton but with little success. Just had an engineer in and ... yipeee! everything seems to be cleared. So Rolling Stones World should now be back to its normal frequency.This posting is just an apology. I haven't even checked out the news sites for

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I don't suppose that I will be bloging about many tracks from Their Satanic Majesties Requests, an album that is hardly representative of the Rolling Stones.2,000 Light Years From Home has got something, not quite sure what, it's quite infectious. The song is not rock 'n' roll, not R'n'B or blues not even the psycho-pop of most of the rest of the album. Can be described as 'futuristic' I suppose,

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Johnnie Johnson the piano man behind Chuck Berry passed away on Wednesday aged 80. Johnnie had been suffering from pneumonia and a kidney ailment.The man was a big influence on the Rolling Stones particularly on Stu and Keith.He was a quiet, shy man who left Chuck Berry's band after the first recordings became hits, claiming that flying made him nervous (shades of Rolling Stones bassist Bill

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Breaking news is that our Ronnie has hit the bottle again. It's being reported that Ron Wood is in an Irish rehabilitation clinic after he started drinking at his wife Jo's 50th birthday party. Apparently the 57 year old Rolling Stones guitarist found it hard watching friends and family drinking.A spokesman for Ron said "Ronnie has gone to get some rest, chill out and get himself in top shape

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No, not another comment on the ages of the Stones but the title of a track on the 1983 Undercover album.Very unusually Ron Wood shares writing credit with Mick and Keith for Pretty Beat Up. He collaborated on a couple of the other tunes as well. The Rolling Stones must have been in a violent mode when recording this album, two other tracks are Tie You Up and Too Much Blood.Maybe not the best song

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Yesterday I had a pop at the press for having a pop at the age of the Stones. They're still at it today with the continuing news of the new Rolling Stones world tour.At least this spoof news site does it with a sense of fun. Rolling Stones Farewell Tour Sponsored by Cialis

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Seems that it's official. It's all over the news sites that the Rolling Stones World Tour will kick off in Boston in August 2005(just a few weeks ago they were saying September.)And they are all making a big thing about the Stones combined age(242). Wonder what it would be if Bill were still in the group? Yep, all the usual Rolling Stones - wrinkly rockers jibes are there. Why does everybody have

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Don't know how I've gone so long without bloging about Star Star, one of my favorite Rolling Stones tracks.This has got to be the most controversial Stones song, lyrics wise anyway. Not surprisingly the record company forced the change to the title. Of course you know what the original title was so I'm not going to use it, I swear when I talk but I'm trying to keep profanity to a minimum on The

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Two Rolling Stones related news items. One concerning blues singer Paul Jones, the other is about Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones.Paul Jones found fame as the singer with early 60's band Manfred Mann. He then left that group to try his hand at acting. He also formed The Blues Band, a cultish but extremely good group playing, as the name suggests, pure blues. I don't know if The Blues Band is

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I'm not a fan of reggae, and that holds true even when the Rolling Stones play it, or should I say attempt to play it.Too Rude is not a bad track on not a very good album, Dirty Work 1986. It's Keith's obligatory vocal track. Bet that it was Keith's choice of song as I don't think that Mick is as much into reggae as his Glimmer Twin is.Joining in the background vocals with the Rolling Stones is

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Just a quick Rolling Stones World blog entry. New Rolling Stones related news item.Keith's wife Patti Hansen talks a little about her life and a worthwhile charity that she supports. Naturally Keith gets a mention too. Patti Hansen

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They just played this Rolling Stones track on the radio. As if I don't know every word, every beat, every note of it, as if it isn't fused into my brain and has been since 1964.Didn't mind hearing it one mo' time though sure knocks the socks off any music being produced now-a-days. Yes, that's the sort of radio station that I listen to. A station where they play the good stuff, the older stuff,

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Here's a news report that says The ROLLING STONES are to be quizzed by detectives over the murder of a fan at an American concert 36 years ago. Apparently police in the USA have re-opened the case of Merideth Hunter's killing at Altmont Speedway. Seems that some folks think that the Rolling Stones could be considered responsible for the murder because they hired the Hells Angels as security. The

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The above is the title of a book on the Stones that I'm reading. Well not too much reading 'cause the book is mainly photos of the band. The photos are from the archives of the Daily Mail and cover the first 40 years of the Rolling Stones.Are all the pics truly unseen, meaning never before published? There is nothing in the book that says they are, and indeed I can't help feeling that I've

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Sorry but I'm gonna trash this Rolling Stones track. You'd maybe think that a true Stones fan would only write good stuff about the band. Not this one, they are indeed 'The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band in the World' but even they occasionally record rubbish, and in my little opinion, Sweethearts Together is rubbish, truly embarrassing.I'm not quite sure what Mick 'n' Keith were aiming for when

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Here's a news report that is pretty positive that the Rolling Stones will open the new Wembley Stadium playing three nights in June 2006.Hmm, I'm taking this news with a spoonful of salt. Only the other day there was a story that apart from the Stones lots of other acts, like U2 and Rod Stewart, are doing battle for the chance to do the opening gig at the new £750 million stadium. And I'm sure I

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Yep, sooner or later, You Gotta Move.I lot of folks vote this track the worst on Sticky Fingers, kinda hard to decide on a 'worst' track on what is one damn good album from the Rolling Stones. If there is one tune that I rate just a smidgen less it's not You Gotta Move, but 'I Got the Blues.'Not a Jagger/Richards composition but penned by Mississippi Fred McDowell. Sticky Fingers was the third

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Story has it that Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger's kids keep seeing a headless ghost when they visit him at his French house. Hey Mick, don't you know better than to leave those substances around when the kids visit. Daily Mail

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Like most of the tracks on the Rolling Stones 1981 album Tattoo You, Waiting On A Friend was a held over track, this one from the Goats Head Soup sessions. The band had the backing track down but hadn't come up with any lyrics. Dusting it off nine years later Mick came up with theme about the value of friendship, and they called in Sonny Rollins to lay down that blazing majestic sax.Mick Taylor

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Have you ever visited Keith Richards web site? All the members of the Rolling Stones have their own sites but I find Keith's to be particularly interesting.It's a bit of a bugger to load, if you are on dial-up like me, it's a Flash thing but that does mean that it has a couple of nice features. I especially like the 'Ask Keith' feature. Visitors can post questions to the great man and he does

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Just thought that I'd quickly post a link to a damn good interview with Mick Jagger I discovered.It's not exactly new, but not that old either, it was done about the time of ol' big lips' 60th birthday. Mick gives his views and opinions on life with the Rolling Stones, morals, his alleged stinginess and how he handles aging.In the interview Mick is asked what he thinks he would have become if he

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The Salt of the Earth, the hard working people, the rag taggy people, the wavering millions. So sang the Rolling Stones a band that by 1968 had long gotten used to the rich rewards of super stardom. Was this an attempt to reconnect with their fan-base?Beggars Banquet, the album on which Salt of the Earth appeared, was definitely an attempt to reconnect with the musical roots of the Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones first single release in the US. Tell Me also found its way onto the Stones first album.This was the first Jagger/Richard composition issued, (as opposed to a Nanker/Phledge composition). Some say that this was the song that Mick and Keith came up with when Andrew Loog Oldham locked them in a bathroom telling them to write, or else. But I think in fact that song was As Tears Go

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According to this news item The Rolling Stones will kick off their next world tour in September.And, as we know, one simply does not tour without product, so that means the new Stones album should be out before then. And about time too.

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One of the many tracks on Tattoo You that the Rolling Stones held over from previous sessions.Hang Fire was first recorded in a different form at the 1978 Some Girls sessions. Lyrics were changed and so apparently was the title, it is said that the song was originally entitled Lazy Bitch ... a dig at Margaret Thatcher. Well, I can think of many things to go in front of 'bitch' to describe

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Got to write about this as it seems to have made all the news sites. Mick Jagger's ex-wife, Jerry Hall, has co-written a song allegedly about the Rolling Stones front man's infidelity. Jerry wrote the song, Around This Table with her friend and neighbor Rachel Fuller who is the girlfriend of Pete Townshend the Who's guitarist.Seems to be some confusion. Some sites report that it is Jerry Hall

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A Bo Diddley number covered by the Rolling Stones on the UK album "The Rolling Stones", but cut from the US release "England's Newest Hitmakers" to make room for Not Fade Away. 'Mona' was eventually released in the USA in February 1965 on "The Rolling Stones, Now!"This track got me hooked on the Diddley beat, more so than Not Fade Away did which was not a Bo Diddley song but a Buddy Holly number

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On the 18th of July 1972 fog descended upon Logan Airport Boston causing a plane to be diverted to Rhode Island's Theodore F. Green State Airport. That plane was carrying the Rolling Stones to play a gig at the Boston Garden.There wasn't a transfer bus available to take the Stones to their waiting fans until 8pm, the band was due on stage at 7.45pm. Members of the Rolling Stones and their

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From the album Steel Wheels and, I think, a single in the USA.One of the faster numbers on the album, a great rocker of a track. Not a song with great lyrics, not that the Rolling Stones are known for writing songs with great lyrics. The words, when you see them written down don't actually make any sense, who was the elephant in the bathroom? Ah well, I guess it all makes sense to Mick and

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Bill Wyman was on BBC radio 2 this evening promoting his new book Bill Wyman's Treasure Island that I posted about on Thursday, March 10.Just before Bill came on the DJ played the Rolling Stones Poison Ivy, but it was not the version on the 1964 EP The Rolling Stones (Released in the States on More Hot Rocks, in 1972) Oh no, this was a different version altogether!Slightly lighter, with Charlie

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I had the radio on. "The brand new single from the Rolling Stones" the DJ said. My ears pricked up. What's this? A weird intro. Sounds different, sort of Indian, ah good, it's morphing into a fast one. Wow listen to them drums. Do I like it? Yeah of course I like it!1966 and I wasn't working at the time. I could have got a job, should have got a job, but it would have been a bum job, and, of

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Talking of Ian Stewart, which I was in yesterdays post. There is a recently published leather bound limited edition book, simply titled STU, it at last gives Ian Stewart the full credit for the success of the Rolling Stones that he fully deserves.Often referred to as 'the sixth stone', some go so far as to say that Stu was the original Rolling Stone, which is often said about Brian Jones but some

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Dirty Work has never been among my favorite Stones albums. I think that most Rolling Stones fans think this 1986 release to be a bit of a disappointment. The disk does contain some good tracks however and I've always found Sleep Tonight, the obligatory Keith Richards sung track, to be very agreeable.Something that I've just found out about the cut is ... that's not Charlie Watts on the drums, no

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Yep, here we go with another post about a track from that 'Golden Era' of Rolling Stones album releases. I guess that I should post a little more about their latter stuff......but, I like the tracks from late sixties to early seventies a hell of a lot better, and besides it's my blog and so I post what I like - fair enough?Stuff Sticky Fingers into your CD player. What would be first track side

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Ex Rolling Stones bass man Bill Wyman has immersed himself in one of his hobbies since calling it a day with his group The Rhythm Kings. Bill developed an interest in metal detecting after buying his 15th century Suffolk manor house back in 1968.Bill says he got some workmen in to repair a leaking water pipe and they found a jug dating from the 16th century. Then later, when he was digging

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Street Fighting Man and Sympathy for the Devil tie as the stand out tracks on Beggars Banquet, in my ears anyway. That is if Beggars Banquet has stand out tracks, if it were not a contradiction in terms I'd say that particular Rolling Stones album was all stand out tracks!Very melodic for a Stones song, but gutsy just the same. Mid tempo, Street Fighting Man marches along, the vocal is delivered

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Yeah why not! A late sixties Rolling Stones classic very much in the mold of Satisfaction Let's Spend the Night Together is piano based rather than guitar based. I can remember Mick Jagger saying in a radio interview at the time of the single's release that they made the recording that way because they were worried that people might think all their records to be the same. Decades later a very

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One of the Rolling Stones excursions into country music and a very good job they make of it too, shall we say immaculate.The sound, mix and production is first class (as it is on all the tracks on Sticky Fingers, the album from whence it came). This is defiantly not one of those tracks that the Stones wrote at the recording session, and it shows. Mick Jagger says "Dead Flowers was all written

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Anybody Seen My Baby? Anybody Seen the Rolling Stones? 'cause they're not on this cut! Sorry, that's a bit unfair, they are there but so are far too many others. Same criticism can be leveled at the whole album - Bridges to Babylon, from which this single was took.Being a regular reader of Rolling Stones World (you are a regular reader ain't ya? If not become one) you will know that I favor the

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Hey! Now here's some Rolling Stones news of interest...Marking the release of The Rolling Stones Singles 1968-1971, the third limited edition box set in the series from ABKCO Records, the AOL(R) Radio Network has launched the new "Satisfaction Radio" station. This exclusive station features an extensive playlist of hundreds of classic Rolling Stones' cuts, new favorites, B-sides and rarities, as

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I forgot it. Monday was Brian Jones' birthday. I always forget birthdays even my own sons', and that's terrible.Brian Jones, born February 28th, 1942, died July 3rd, 1969. He would be 63 if he was still with us. Born under Pisces(fishes) which is ironic seeing how he died.A great contributor to the Rolling Stones when he was at his best. A great pity that he suffered with mental torment, but then

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Seems that two out of print Rolling Stones CD's are to be reissued on April 5th. Both are compilations...Made in the Shade-and-Sucking in the SeventiesMade in the Shade, originally released in 1975 to combat sales of Metamorphosis, is a nice 10 track collection of Stones singles and album tracks, some rocking, some more gentle and laid back. Of course, there ain't nothing on Made in the Shade I

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There is just so much power in this track. Power that comes completely from the delivery, the sheer energy and enthusiasm that was put into it. It has nothing to do with studio wizardry, or mixing or overdubs, just straight into the mike e-n-e-r-g-y.Released on the Rolling Stones debut album The Rolling Stones , (England's Newest Hit Makers in the US), this is a cover of a Willie Dixon tune.

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Sir Mick Jagger has been appointed Cultural Ambassador by London's 2012 Olympic bidding team, and is going to star in a promotional video that will be shown to the delegates from the International Olympic Committee.Hmmm, now what is it that I remember about the Rolling Stones and the Olympics ?"London is one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world and I am personally very proud to lend

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