Thread: Rolling Stones

2010, keith richards interviewed by andrew marr, in 3 parts.

good stuff.

Scary to think that many of us grew up with the Stones, who have now been around for fifty years. Makes me feel very old........I just asked my 12 year old daughter if she had ever heard of the Rolling Stones - fully expecting a "Who?" response. She whipped out her music gizmo, and bam, the Stones were blaring out "Brown Sugar". I guess there may be hope for the next generation after all.

Originally Posted by taxexile

keith richards interviewed

lots more

https://teakdoor.com/arts-and-enterta...ough-time.html (Keith Richards - Interviews Through Time)

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Scary to think that many of us grew up with the Stones, who have now been around for fifty years.

ain't is just , check the date on the Randwick gig above

Amazing band,my kids used to get annoyed when I would sing non stop Under the Board walk or Little Red Rooster.Then they grew up and all of a sudden the Stones became their favorites.
Never tire of their music or the theatrics of Jagger. Incredible group.

jagger on top form with superheavy.

wonderful suit hes wearing too.

Originally Posted by Lantern

Roundhay Park Leeds,

Me too, July 25th 1982.

Yep, that one...drove up there from Manchester and bought tickets at the gate, I think it was the same tour where I saw them again at St james's park Newcastle
Nothing like the Stones, with the excesses of their chosen industry and their longevity has ever been done before and will never be done again. These pioneers have held it together for 5 decades, thats a lifetime. One can only wonder at the lives they've led and amount of pussy they've been through, the chemicals they've imbibed, the weed they've chuffed......talented, lucky, lucky fkers

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
Keith Richards

They were just a couple of kids in a school photo… but they grew up to rock the world.

This previously unseen snap from 1951 shows Mick Jagger and Keith Richards when the legendary Rolling Stones were barely pebbles.



Rolling Stones unseen photo of Mick, Keef and the class of 1951 - 3am & Mirror Online

Rolling Stones mark 50th anniversary
Thu Jul 12 2012

Rock veterans The Rolling Stones returned to where it all began as they posed outside a recreation of the venue of their first gig, half a century on.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood gathered at a mock-up of the old Marquee club venue to mark the 50th anniversary of their debut.

They were captured by renowned photographer Rankin on Wednesday, the first time the members had been pictured together for four years, since the premiere of their Shine A Light movie.

The group played their first show at the club in London's Oxford Street on July 12, 1962, under the name The Rollin' Stones, hastily chosen from a song by their blues hero Muddy Waters.

The group landed the gig when the venue's regular band Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated were booked for a BBC Radio show and Marquee owner Harold Pendleton booked them to fill in.

The line-up for the show in that early incarnation was listed in Jazz News as: "Mick Jagger (vocals harmonica), Keith Richards (guitars), Elmo Lewis, real name Brian Jones (guitars), Dick Taylor (bass), Ian Stewart (piano), & Mick Avory (drums)."

The group, regular visitors to the club, had been rehearsing a set of R&B standards at the nearby Bricklayers Arms pub in Soho's Broadwick Street.

The Stones are celebrating the anniversary with the release of an official book Rolling Stones 50, published by Thames & Hudson, featuring unseen material from across the band's career and line-up changes.

An exhibition of photos from the book opens on Friday at London's Somerset House until August 27.

A new Rolling Stones documentary will be released in November.

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The Rolling Stones very first TV appearance in the U.K. playing fully live - on the popular "Arthur Haynes Show" variety show. Great demonstration of Brian's distinctive slide playing on "I Wanna Be Your Man".

The objective here is to present these classic genuine live performances in the best possible audio, edited using Steinberg's WaveLab and Waves Renaissance EQ plug-in, then re-synched with video edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, with titles/watermark added.

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The Original Rolling Stones 4-Volume Live CD Anthology - Home

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The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter 1970

Slightly less relevant that their music:

Ronnie Wood's ex Kazakhstani slapper Katia Ivanova get's her tits out on Page 3 in The Sun today.

Ronnie Wood's ex Katia Ivanova is Page 3 girl | The Sun |Features

I thought I recognised her! Very nice too

The Rolling Stones To Kick Off World Tour As Early As Autumn 2012
Jon Stickler
Monday, 16 July 2012



Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has confirmed that the veteran rockers will play their first live shows in five years this autumn.

Speculation continues to grow about a new Rolling Stones tour with the band celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. The Rolling Stones played their first show together at London's Marquee Club in 1962.

This weekend saw the Rolling Stones, consisting of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, attend the launch of a new free Somerset House exhibition of photographs documenting their career. Speaking at the launch, when asked about the band's next live performance, Jagger, with a wink, told the London Evening Standard: “In the autumn.”

The 68-year-old vocalist continued. “You will definitely be seeing us all together soon. It’s been great fun being back together and there are a lot of memories in here. I can’t believe it’s been 50 years. We’ve been hanging out together, seeing quite a bit of each other and we want to do some gigs.”

When asked about the new Someset House exhibition, guitarist Keith Richards, also 68, replied: “This is like walking into a room full of memories. It’s great being back with the guys, but I can’t tell you anything about any shows. My lips are sealed.”

Having been strongly tipped to perform at the Olympics, the Rolling Stones have been rehearsing in New York where they were joined by the band's former bass player Bill Wyman. An appearance at the Olympics is now unlikely after Jagger claimed they weren't quite ready.

“We haven’t played in a long time and we weren’t really stage ready. It’s a very big gig and it’s very risk taking. I didn’t think the band felt they were really ready to do it at this point.”

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A Glass Of Rolling Stones Whiskey? That’ll Be $6,000, Cheers
Al Newstead
16 July 2012



What with last week being the 50th Anniversary of the Rolling Stones first-ever gig, along with persistent rumours that the band will be heading out on a massive world tour to celebrate, it’s no surprise that everyone’s getting in on celebrations.

Including Japanese brewers Suntory, who are not only capitalising on the Stones’ half-century milestone, but also providing the beverage to raise your glass as well.

The Asahi Shimbun (that’s the brewery not the beer-makers) report that Suntory Liquors will be releasing a limited-edition blended whiskey to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones on October 30, complete in a bottle shaped in the band’s familiar tongue and lips logo.

Only 150 bottles of the Stones Whiskey will be produced, containing brewing ingredients coming from a landmark year in the legendary band’s career.

The whiskey will available in two single malts, from 1962 - the year the band formed, along with a 1971 variant – when the finalised Rolling Stones logo was first used by the bend. While the blended version will also feature a Yamazaki malt from 1972, the release of Exile on Main St. There are two more malts from Hakushu and Chita with grains from 1990, when the Stones made their first trip to Japan.

And how much would you expect to pay for the privilege of imbibing the special liquor? The limited edition Suntory whiskey will retail for the recommended retail price of 500,000 yen; which works out to approximately $AU 6,200. Even for the most diehard of Stones fans, that may be more arms and legs than they can afford.

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Rolling Stones Crossfire Hurricane Documentary Trailer Released (Video)
Russell Hall
September 27, 2012



The Rolling Stones have released the trailer for their forthcoming retrospective film documentary, Crossfire Hurricane. The preview trailer features both old and relatively new video footage, including vintage TV clips and segment culled from the band’s massive arena shows, as well as candid shots of group members caught in behind-the-scenes moments.

Directed by Brett Morgen, the two-hour-plus documentary features historical footage, much of it widely unseen, and commentary from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Crossfire Hurricane is set to premiere at the London Film Festival on October 18, where it will be broadcast by satellite to more than 250 cinemas throughout Europe. HBO will air the film on November 15.


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Sotheby's to offer ten secret love letters from Mick Jagger to Marsha Hunt from the summer of 1969
Sunday, November 11, 2012


A letter addressed to American-born singer Marsha Hunt. Handwritten letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London next month. Hunt is a singer who was the inspiration for the Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and bore Jagger's first child. The auction house said Saturday Nov. 10, 2012 that the collection, which includes song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist, is expected to fetch between 70,000 and 100,000 pounds ($111,300 and $159,000) and will go under the hammer on December 12.
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LONDON.- On 12th December 2012 Sotheby’s London will offer a remarkable series of passionate and articulate love letters written by Mick Jagger to his lover, the beautiful black American singer (and inspiration for Brown Sugar) Marsha Hunt, during the summer of 1969. The letters were written while Jagger, the frontman of the world’s most successful rock band was in Australia filming the movie Ned Kelly and their relationship was a closely guarded secret. Jagger was at the height of his creative powers and the symbol of rebellious youth: Hunt was the image of “Black is Beautiful” and the face of the landmark West End production of Hair. Beguilingly lyrical and displaying a wide range of cultural interests, Jagger’s letters, written at a time of great personal and professional turmoil, shed new light on the rock legend. Estimated to realise £70,000-100,000, the collection, which includes song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist, will be the centrepiece of Sotheby’s English Literature & History sale.

Marsha Hunt commented: ‚When a serious historian finally examines how and why Britain’s boy bands affected international culture and politics, this well-preserved collection of Mick Jagger’s hand written letters will be a revelation. Written during the summer of ‘69 from a Tony Richardson filmset in the Australian outback, they touch upon the first moon landing, John and Yoko, Christopher Isherwood and the Isle of Wight Festival. They’re addressed to me. I was 23, American born, Berkeley educated, and London-based. Despite his high profile and my own as a singer, actress, Vogue model and star of London’s original Hair cast, our delicate love affair remains as much part of his secret history as his concerns over the death of Brian Jones and the suicide attempt of his girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull.

Dr Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s Books Specialist said: ‚These beautifully written and lyrical letters from the heart of the cultural and social revolution of 1969, frame a vivid moment in cultural history. Here we see Mick Jagger, not as the global superstar he has become, but as a poetic and self-aware 25-year-old, with wideranging intellectual and artistic interests. Written from a film set in the Australian Outback in that momentous year for The ‘Stones, just after their landmark Hyde Park concert and before the tragic events of Altamont, we are afforded an insight into how one of the central actors in the momentous cultural events of the time saw the world as it changed around him. They provide a rare glimpse of Jagger that is very different from his public persona: passionate but self-contained, lyrical but with a strong sense of irony.‛

In Spring 1969 Marsha Hunt was approached by The Rolling Stones’ office and invited to appear scantily dressed in a photo shoot for their forthcoming single Honky Tonk Women. Conscious of her position as a role model for young black women, Hunt refused: “I didn’t want to look like I’d just been had by all the Rolling Stones,” she recalls. After unsuccessfully attempting to persuade her to reconsider over the telephone, Mick Jagger appeared at midnight at the door of her Bloomsbury apartment. As she recalled in her 1986 memoir Real Life, he stood, “framed by the doorway as he stood grinning with a dark coat …He drew one hand out of his pocket and pointed it at me like a pistol …Bang.” It was the start of a passionate and initially clandestine affair, at a time when interracial relationships were charged to a degree that is difficult to imagine today. Their relationship was a potent symbol of a new sexual and racial order. In 1970, Hunt became the mother of Mick Jagger’s first child.

The letters, sent while Jagger was on location in Australia, are written on a range of headed stationery (from Chevron Hotel, Sydney; JHA Sykes, Palerand, Bungendore, New South Wales and Woodfall Limited, Bondi Junction, New South Wales). One was composed on 20th July 1969, the day of the Moon Landing and dated: “Sunday the Moon”. References to poetry, responses to the unfamiliar landscape, anxiety about the future of his relationship with Hunt co-exist with the familiar Jagger swagger of deliberately mis-spelt words, surreal flights of fancy, and raw sexual desire. In one memorable passage Jagger writes of lying in a bed "with a lyre at the head" in a converted hayloft, thinking of her whilst listening to the alien sounds of the outback in the heart of a forest of strange trees.

The correspondence encompasses a wide-range of subject matter, including:

• The couple’s relationship: “… I feel with you something so unsung there is no need to sing it…”

• His impressions of the Australian outback: the early morning mist "…turns red and violent then hard and warm…"

• His wide-ranging cultural interests (sometimes inspired by books Marsha had sent him): “...I toy through Nijinksy’s diaries…”

• Contemporary pop culture: “…John & Yoko boring everybody…”

• His reputation. He thanks her for being “…so nice to an evil old man like me”.

• A party where the girls are “so plain” all he can do is “….eat chocolate eclairs”.

• Christopher Isherwood’s screenplay of I Claudius: “…I hope I get the part of Caligula…”

One letter incorporates the full lyrics for the song Monkey Man, rewritten with three additional lines. The collection also includes a track list in Jagger’s hand listing nine Rolling Stones songs with brief comments (“OK”, “dodgy”, etc).

The letters contain oblique references to the death of Brian Jones and Jagger’s increasingly difficult relationship with Marianne Faithfull (with whom he was due to star in Ned Kelly, but almost immediately on arrival in Australia, Faithfull took an overdose of barbiturates and almost died). The on-set experience was not a positive one. Jagger’s hand was badly burnt when a prop pistol misfired in his hand and the injury is apparent in the shifts in his handwriting. The letters reveal his ultimate disillusionment with the business of movie-making.

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Published on 25 Nov 2012 by susiescorner

After 50 years in the music industry The Rolling Stones will perform to thousands of fans at London's O2 Arena tonight.

The Rolling Stones take to the stage later for a concert to celebrate their 50 years in music.

Now all aged in their mid-60s to early 70s, lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood and drummer Charlie Watts will perform five concerts - starting at the O2 Arena in London tonight and on Thursday, before three in the US next month.

Joining them at the O2 will be former band members Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor, the first time the two ex-Stones have performed with the group in more than 20 years.

A sell-out crowd of some 20,000 people is expected, in spite of widespread complaints from fans at ticket prices that ranged from £95 up to £950 for a VIP seat.

Costs went far higher on secondary ticketing websites, although by Friday eBay was offering several seats to Sunday's show at below face value and there were places still officially available at around £400 apiece.

Stones fan Ben Cragg paid £700 for his ticket.

He said: "There's no more important band than The Rolling Stones and there's no other band that I would pay this amount of money to see ever, but I've seen them 17 times before, this could be the last time.

"I've not been happy that I've had to spend that amount of money, but needs must."

The band has defended the official ticket prices, saying that the shows are expensive to put on, although Billboard, a specialist music publication, reported that the quartet would be paid $25 million for the four shows first announced.

A fifth was added later.

Music critics have praised the band's recent single Doom and Gloom from the GRRR! greatest hits album just released.

And there have been hints from the band that the five gigs which wind up at the Newark Prudential Centre on December 15, may not be the end of their reunion.

"Once the juggernaut starts rolling, it ain't gonna stop," Richards told Rolling Stone magazine.

"So without sort of saying definitely yes - yeah. We ain't doing all this for four gigs!"

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Published on 25 Nov 2012 by ABCNews6

Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary Tour Excites Rock and Roll Fans

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50th anniversary concert, last night, london.

with jeff beck, "going down"

Mick Jagger was at the LSE in 1963 on his second year of taking a B.Sc. degree in Industry & Trade. He went to his tutor and said he did not plan to finish the course as he had decided to do the Stones full time. Apparently, his tutor advised; “Mr. Jagger it’s advisable that you complete your degree in case you don’t make a success in rock and roll!”
The rest is history.