Etta James - Keith Richards - Other End Club 1980



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Great picture Rockman

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I've been looking for that picture...

At Last!

Wasn't that performance with Etta James on februari 9, 1981 at The Lonestar Café? (source Nico Zentgraf's website).

Advertiser - 6 April 2009



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Chris Blackwell & Mick Jagger - Love Peace Concert - Kingston Jamaica 1978 - Photo Kate Simon



Taken from Chris Blackwell interview by Hooman Majd - Interview magazine April 2009



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BOOK*Reviews - Record Collector April 2009



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Etta James - Keith Richards - Other End Club 1980

thats great two legends!...any audio out there from this show?

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thats why wanted beck...and not Jimmy....foo the guitar hunt..aint beck a rolling stone



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What about this new Tom waits project...this hip hop thing ...whats the name of it brother?...and is it any goood?...Cheers from the low lands!

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Etta James - Keith Richards - Other End Club 1980

Thanks Rockman - haven't seen this photo before; very cool

Betty Harris .... Chill City organiser Mario Maccarone and MC Chip Monck



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Newpapers cuttings from 1986



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THE AUSTRALIAN - Wednesday 15 April 2009



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Since I doubt if even the great Rockman reads the Radio Times:

Hey I read everything from graffiti to palms .. But no I ain't seen the Radio Times .....

Many thanks for the input Green Lady ... Do you have a green thumb???



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Green fingers maybe...

INTERVIEW - Marianne Faithfull by Evelyn McDonnell - Photo Paolo Roversi - APRIL 2009



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Anyone care ta translate interview .......














Italian Vogue - January 2009



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i've shopped in this store many times through the years!

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Anyone care ta translate interview .......

Thanks for the interview and the great pictures, Rockman.

Me and my Italian/Keithish dictionary had a go - lots of guesswork so any corrections from people who REALLY speak Italian would be very welcome. Bits marked (??) are phrases or sentences I couldn't make head nor tail of. Nice interview - I wish I understood more of the bit where he's talking about his mum.

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An exclusive interview with the legendary “dark soul” of the Rolling Stones, who explains the origins of his passion for music, and why Elvis is not his favourite rocker, and reveals that, despite his “bad boy” image, he likes taking care of his kids.

A man possessed, with shamanistic powers, and thus perhaps immortal – if not, how do you explain his nonchalant survival of the excesses of life on the road, of arenas and hotels? There are so many mind-blowing stories – (??) – in circulation concerning the guitarist of the Rolling Stones. His is one of those journeys which “cannot be told in words” as was suggested by the recent Louis Vuitton campaign in which he appeared. A journey which has taken him to “World’s End” (the third ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ in which he played an uproarious father to Jack Sparrow/Johnny Depp). But beyond all the stories, there is one absolute truth: put a guitar in his hand and he’s a legend.

L’UV: You’re a rock & roll icon.
KR: Icon with a C or ikon with a K, like one of those little Russian paintings of a saint? Because I’m certainly no saint, I know that very well.

L’UV: With a C, like a person with legendary talent and style. Do you have an icon, who represents for you the most important source of artistic inspiration?
KR: The pure and simple answer is no – and yes. There’s a mixture of so many influences; a dish with lots of different ingredients. I could say Bach. I could say Beethoven. I could say Chuck Berry.

L’UV: Is there anything that connects them all? Didn’t Chuck Berry write “Roll Over Beethoven?”
KR: They were guys who knew how to compose music and how to play it and sing it. Wow. For me that was the most extraordinary thing. Chuck Berry IS rock ‘n’ roll. I was knocked out by the songs he wrote. I mean to say they probably represent the greatest body of work you could possibly imagine. And Chuck isn’t just rock‘n’roll: he’s blues and jazz and all the rest. When I listen to “School days”, “Too much monkey business”, “Little Queenie”, “Go Johnny Go”, they just blow my mind. But (there are other guys who are in there too) Buddy Holly was one of them, like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson ... Elvis Presley was a goddamn brilliant rock’n’roller, no doubt about it, but he becomes less interesting when you consider the guys who wrote all their own stuff, expressed themselves. You know, for me it’s the idea of the complete package that beats simple performance hollow.

L’UV: An icon usually has – shall we say – a “picturesque” past. It seems as though everyone has a mind-blowing Keith Richards story to tell.
KR: Yeah, I keep hearing about these mind-blowing stories, and I keep asking myself: where the hell was I when they happened? (laughs)

L’UV: Perhaps we’ll be hearing some more in the future, in this autobiography you’re rumoured to be working on.
KR: I’ll try to remember! (laughs) We’re still deciding what kind of format to use. Don’t expect the usual phone-book of celebrity name-dropping. It’s not a book of sex-scandals, you know what I mean – even if – there’s a lot of sex in it!

L’UV: An amusing thing you did recently was the film “Pirates of the Caribbean”. How did you get on aboard “At World’s End?”
KR: Johnny and I have known each other for some time, since he first began working on this pirate series, and for a couple of years he’s been saying to me “You ought to do something in this” – and that’s how it happened. I got given a pair of pistols and a sword and some other stuff. It turns out that if you dress me up enough, I can play almost any part. I enjoyed it a lot and working with Johnny was very easy. We did a whole lot of laughing. I like the guy, and he’s a great guitarist as well. And then, it’s only a pirate story, isn’t it!

L’UV: But in spite of the rock’n’roll pirate’s life, you’re a pretty traditional guy, with solid musical values. You’ve worked in the same band for forty years. You’ve been married for some time, got four children, a pretty stable family...
KR: Living two different lives at the same time is really hell! (Laughs). You know in many ways I’m a bit of a Puritan, believe it or not, especially when it comes to music. I’m a pretty steady bloke with my family. I’ve always thought that if you’re going to have kids, you should look after them. If you treat them right, maybe they’ll take care of you – which is even better! But relationships – I’ve always wanted to be loved, and I’ve always believed that the only way to receive love is to give love...

L’UV: Did you inherit your love of music from your family?
KR: Yes. It’s inside me... probably in my genes. In my family we listened to a lot of music, at home there was always a record playing. People skipped around the place singing, saying “Hey, you gotta hear this!”: crazy about all the different kinds of music. My granddad was certainly one of those who turned me on to it: (?he couldn’t tell the blues from the greens?), but he knew his music.

L’UV: What kind of music did he play?
KR: Just music, friend. In the 20s and 30s he had a dance band: he played the violin and the saxophone. I can still see him now, following my grandma around the place playing “La Vie En Rose” – hoping to earn himself a shag! (laughs)

L’UV: And did your mother (who died in 2007) also have musical inclinations?
KR: My mother was 100% into music. I mean, after all she was my grandpa’s daughter. Music all the time. Even in England in the 1950s, when you really had to fiddle around with those radio knobs to find something decent, my mum always had music playing. This is exactly what we did. If we got bored, we’d improvise and start singing ourselves. Doing harmonies and all that sort of thing. It was always like this in our house.

L’UV: Italian mothers have a real bond with their sons. What about your mother?
KR: She was crazy – beautifully crazy. I didn’t think so at the time. You know, she was just my mum. I never realised how crazy she was. She had an incredible sense of humour and love of music. I mean to say, with a combination like that, you can't end up in a bad way! I could have grown up much worse (than I did). Perhaps there wasn’t much to eat on the table, I mean to say – we lived on a council estate. But our house was full of joy, laughter, music. Those are the things my mum gave me. I just sang something for her down at home – bless her.

L’UV:Are there any lessons about life you’d like to pass on?
KR: Let's put it this way, I am considering to do it. First, I have to learn the lesson though ... but when this will happen, for sure I will pass it on !

THANKS liddas for sorting out some of the bits I didn't understand.



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Thanks for posting that article, Rock - incredible pics there.
and thanks Green Lady, for translating it. you did a fine job it seems.

Not sure that Mick will enjoy reading this one...



(The Big Issue, April 13-19 2009)

Thank you ever so much for translation Green Lady ... reckon ya nailed it ....Ta



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yo Rockman- this is a bloody fun thread!

it takes me a while for the posts to load cuz i still have dial-up (20th century type cat an all, i'm sure you understand), but i really dig how you post the actual articles and pics so everyone can view with links that may/may not work, very democratic, that!

anyway- thanks for the fun reading, man!

WOW!!!! ... pullin' up 34 pages of Connections on dial-up ...
Geez that's slavin' ya compute .....Ya could end up an old man waitin for it ta load...But hey glad ya your enjoyin' Muppet ......



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Yes, these are great and thanks for the translation...fantastico.
[On those language websites mia madre c'era dentro di brutto translates as
my mother there was inside of ugliness ]?? Where are our Italiano fans when we need em?!
Anyway, something tells me we are going to see someday a Rolling Stones or classic rock collection/library ... near Melbourne?