I owe it all to my mum’s impeccable taste in music says rocker Keith Richards Observer article by Vanessa Thorpe on KR's DID. SPOILER ALERT(Mild) Mentions some of KR's choices and comments on DID later today. Mum's Impeccable Taste
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As Sticky Fingers gets its deluxe reissue later this month, here’s Robert Greenfield’s on-the-road exploration written for Rolling Stone in April 1971 – courtesy of Rock’s Backpages Goodbye, Great Britain
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First homes of the Stones (and what they'd cost them now): Photographer captured band members in their London houses in 1965 after moving out of 'squalid' flat they shared Dun Roamin
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@#$%& Downfall parodies: 25 worth watching Subtitled parodies of Adolf @#$%&'s last days in the Berlin bunker, as depicted in the 2004 Second World War film Downfall, have become one of the web's most enduring memes. Spittle-flecked Rants A few more, but the joke soon wears thin: You bought me WHAT?!? You Bought Me What? @#$%& finds out about the Downfall Parodies
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Eel Pie Island Hotel - Paul Jones, BBC R4 Lead singer with Manfred Mann, Paul Jones looks back at the colourful history of The Eel Pie Island Hotel in Twickenham. In the late 1800s, Charles Dickens described the hotel as a 'place to dance to the music of the locomotive band'. In the 1950s crowds flocked to the free jazz club that the hotel became, and in the '60s it became a re
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QuotePeter Guralnick ..all of a sudden a teenaged girl in the row in front of ours was being yanked by the hair out of her seat by an angry man who could only be her father.
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Wot - no 36th anniversary of Elvis Presley's Death thread; how the mighty have fallen! Elvis Presley: 20 Essential Songs A rather mundane selection
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Brian Jones~The Dream Of Life, Audio @ 128 990703A 3rd July, 1999: UK radio (BBC R2) Brian Jones - The Dream Of Life. One-hour tribute on the 30th anniversary of BJ's death. Host: Paul Jones. Incl. - interview with MJ - interview with KR - interview with BW - interview with Alexis Korner - interview with Donovan - interview with Pat Andrews - interview with Andrew Oldham 57 mi
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Bill Oddie - On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at [1970] Nice rock parody, with apologies to Joe Cocker. B-side is good, too. Bill Oddie - Harry Krishna Hare-vaderci, Roma, indeed!
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Freddie Starr - Mick Jagger Impression, 1970 Royal Variety Performance
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One hundred seventy-four years later (1954), a chestnut colt called Never Say Die—his name an allusion to a near-death experience at birth—took the lead in the final quarter mile beneath 18-year-old jockey Lester Piggott and galloped on to a two-length Derby triumph at odds of 33–1, to the astonishment of the hundreds of thousands in attendance and the millions listening to the BBC radio broadcas
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Ryan Adams/Emmylou Harris - Return of the Grievous Angel(Live) Sept.'99? With Mark Knopfler and Bernie Leadon? A very nice version, IMHO. Song Meanings: Return of the Grievous Angel Ryan Adams/Gillian Welch sing the song live here: Ryan Adams: Live at Exit October 28, 1999
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A Tribute to the Late George Jones - Bob Harris Country (2013) Jones, who was 81, was regarded as one of - if not the - best country singers of all time. His recording career, which stretched across seven decades, is studded with classics of the genre, including "She Thinks I Still Care", "The Race Is On", "If The Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)&quo
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Chuck Berry (Johnny B. Goode) - Live in Buenos Aires (14-04-13) Even worse than Montevideo,IMO, because less of the daughter. From a Guardian article on the death of Scott Miller(obscure singer/songwriter): QuoteMichael Hann These are the kinds of rock deaths that really sadden me – the ones of the people who lived lives just like ours, ones without limos and hotel suites, the peopl
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I've got it as 128kbps MP3. Let me know if you still need it.
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Mark Lamarr tells the story of the Million Dollar Quartet, one of the most famous jam sessions in the history of pop music that saw Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis perform together in a studio in Memphis, Tennessee, on a Tuesday afternoon in December 1956. Including contributions from Peter Guralnick, Colin Escott, Carl Perkins, Sam Phillips, Johnny Cash and Jerry
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Record Store Day 2013: what's it like working in a record shop? Guardian Record Store Day – in pictures Guardian Pictures
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Rolling Stone Guardian A brilliant songwriter, and a fascinating writer about songs(Guardian) Just discovered this guy a few days ago through an EP he'd just made with Rayna Gellert, and I thought he was an interesting guy, one to keep an eye on. A bit surprised to find that he was already dead at the time I was discovering him. His MUSIC: What Happened? site has some good review
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Annette Funicello - Tall Paul[1959] The poor woman suffered from MS for 25 years: Former Mouseketeer Dead at 70
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'Well,this makes for a fairly depressing read.' Macca leads thanks to wealthy wife. Sir Mick in joint 5th with Becks. Flatley reaps reward for energetic dancing. TinyUrl.com A VERY depressing read, I'd say, for the likes of those who were celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death a few days ago.
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Popcorn Blues was my introduction to Nathan Abshire:
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colonial: Annie Lennox cover of A Whiter Shade of Pale is great. It started off better than it ended, I thought, but it's a nice change from the usual version, which I've heard so many times that I never want to hear it again.
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This was Britain's first gentle whiff of drug culture in pop music. Those heady sights, smells and sounds of what later became known as the Summer Of Love, were first and best encapsulated on this side of the Atlantic by Procol Harum's hit. It would prove to be a summer which burned long and bright and which heralded a significant change in the look, sound and mood of pop culture. B
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Some BBC R2 BH pieces to mark The Day the Music Died: Seven More Days that Rocked the World - Buddy Holly Stuart Maconie tells the tragic story of Buddy Holly's final flight. 27 min. @ 64 Kbps. The Music Didn't Die - Steve Harley The Music Didn't Die, a tribute to a true American icon Buddy Holly. Steve Harley celebrates Buddy Holly's life, career, and en
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Ralph McLean's Soul Show on BBC Radio Ulster on 15 Jan was devoted to RS and the artists that influenced them: RalphMcLean RS Special 112 Min @ 128
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Andrew Loog Oldham: the mastermind of The Rolling Stones "The Beatles were The Beatles – the Stones were the Stones... A lot of folks liked both." Joe BossoJanuary 2, 2013, 20:45 GMT A hustler is only as good as his hustle, and in 1963, 19-year-old Andrew Loog Oldham hit the mother lode. On the night of 23 April of that year, the budding teen tycoon, having already successful
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60th anniversary of the charts: 30 bestselling singles 30 Best-selling Singles From Dion to John . Calling it dross is charitable.
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Thanks, Deltics. A nice, smooth D/L if you get in early in the RS day, and a nice, smooth extraction.
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Recording of Bill Wyman interview broadcast BBC Radio Scotland, 24 Oct.'07. Edi Stark hosted The Radio Cafe's audience with Bill Wyman at an outside broadcast in the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles 18 October, 2007. Bill Wyman Interview 45 min., 64 kbps. Link expires 8 Jan.'13. A re-up of a post made a few years ago in another thread. He comes across in the interview as
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As part of Radio 2's season celebrating 50 years of The Rolling Stones, Jamie Cullum meets up with Charlie Watts in Paris to talk about The Rolling Stones, drumming, and his lifelong passion for jazz. Charlie remembers the artists he first heard when he was younger that inspired his style of drumming, from Howlin' Wolf to Earl Palmer, and the pair discuss the slick fashion of jazz mu
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