Anyone who doesn't answer 'the original, studio version' is going to be banned, right?
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That's fantastic! Congratulations. And a big to Bill.
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The Complete David Bowie is exceptionally good. It sends the reader back into each aspect of Bowie's career. Nicholas Pegg on other Bowie books: Alias David Bowie - 'unusually well written... a disagreeable tendency to founder on the rocks of sensationalism.... It's not difficult to see why their book gave offense to David at the time." But he thinks it's still the
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+ solo? Ok Stones, obviously. Serge Gainsbourg Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett Jacques Brel Small Faces Beatles Jacques Dutronc Bob Dylan Otis Redding Francoise Hardy Velvet Underground/and Nico Sly & the Family Stone Kinks Who Michel Polnareff France Gall Temptations Supremes Yardbirds Sam Cooke 13th Floor Elevators Pretty Things Georges Brassens Jefferson Airplane Jimi H
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It's one of the things that puts the Stones at the front of my favourites, that I can listen to them and listen to them and listen to them. There are others I think as good but very few that don't pall before the Stones.
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Quotedrewmaster Quotecc that huge, cavernous, haunting sound just knocks me out. Drew Yes, that early sixties sound of the Stones was wonderful. And of others, of course, though no-one did it better than the Stones/AOL. I love the laziness of this track.
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I'm not sure she was really an Anita replacement. I think they were more two friends who were deeply hurt and trying to help each other. There's a good thread on COFM about Brian's supposed attraction to Anita (and Brian) lookalikes:
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I hadn't wanted to say so because it sounds bitchy but since it's been brought up, oh well: I think my biggest problem with the book was appeared to be the lack of intelligence. I kept thinking, 'This? This is the guy who wrote Gimme Shelter?' I really wanted a great book. I wanted a book which would be considered in the same way that the books of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith
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One of the most evocative Stones books, I thought. In that it reminded me of Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones, as different as they are in other ways.
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The problem's partly that things which might look attractive in the shadows don't always look so good in full light. The tone of the book doesn't help, though. He aims at being laconic and comes across as self-satisfied (which probably isn't the truth, or at least not the whole truth). As swiss pointed out, he becomes evasive at the most difficult moments, hiding behind his
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David Bowie's Heathen and Reality, although they're maybe more more New York State than New York City.
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Steve Peregrin Took, Marc Bolan's partner in Tyrannosaurus Rex: Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees: Tony Hicks of the Hollies:
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I like some of the Sex Pistols' songs but I'm one of those who think they were finished as soon as they dumped Matlock and hired Sid Vicious. Not only was Matlock the main musical songwriter, which would have made the change bad enough, but Sid was a bad cartoon of a punk. And has since - and at the time - been accepted as a good cartoon of a punk. That said, I do feel sorry for the
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How did anyone know they were on drugs, I wonder? I feel like I'm tripping balls. Perfectly fine and then these ghostly lunatics appear.
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I see what you mean, but Life really only confirmed what I feared about Keith in the last couple of decades. I tend to dissociate it from the flawed but brilliant songwriter and musician who's meant so much to me.
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Great clip; thank you. Although I can't be the only one who finds the sudden appearance of the dancers to be slightly macabre, can I?
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Yes! Well, maybe. I've been listening to No. 2 and Out of Our Heads and thinking that people - including me - haven't recently always appreciated how brilliant they are. So the first three. Interpretations and originals. Perhaps people too often think of the debut as standing for the first period. When each of the first three albums, and the singles and E.P.s from the same time, should
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No Expectations is one of the saddest but not in the way songs are usually so. Rather than being plaintive, it's sad in its complete resignation.
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Thank you. What an excellent reinterpretation. And also frustrating because it reminds me of how little known that period (live and semi-live) seems to be. Although there's maybe more of an appreciation for pre-1969 live performances now than there was a few years ago? Perhaps I'm imagining it.
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Thank you very much! The story as far as I remember it is that Anita and Keith (and Tom Keylock and Deborah Dixon, Donald Cammell's girlfriend) waited with Brian until he convinced them to carry on. Then he started to worry about Anita and Keith being together without him and asked Anita to return, which she did, and the two of them flew out to join Keith, Mick and the others in Morocco.
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p.s. Of course, they're firstly very lovely songs.
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Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, 69 année erotique: France Gall, Les sucettes (written by Serge Gainsbourg): And here performed by both France and Serge:
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Love is Strong
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Especially from the sixties when the pill had only just appeared and wasn't always legal, and when abortion often wasn't legal. Surely there should be more than there seem to be? Or are there quite a few running around and we just don't know about them? And if so, I wonder if the fathers know about them. Has there been any discussion of managers' and secretaries' ways o
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There's a guy in the audience at about 7:54 who looks like he's from 1968 at earliest. Well done, that man. I wish they'd release this, the Danish interviews, the Italian Courtfield/studio/live clip, the French interview with Mick speaking a little French, the Ed Sullivan appearances etc. and the videos (We Love You, JJF, Child of the Moon...) as a DVD compilation.
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I mean... obvious. To put it in a fairly negative way. Following the River and Angie don't leave the listener much room to use his or her imagination but they're still good.
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I like it very much. Following the River may be a little too on the nose but I sometimes think the same about Angie. That's alright.
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Off the top of my head, some of them are The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd Please Please Me - The Beatles Du Chant a la Une!... - Serge Gainsbourg Et moi, et moi, et moi - Jacques Dutronc The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses The Kick Inside - Kate Bush Moon Safari - Air The La's - The La's The Velvet Underground and Nico - The V
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5. DVD compilations of the TV appearances and interviews (one for the 60s; one for the 70s; one for the 80s to present, maybe). 4. A live album of the 1967 and earlier performances. Either one show or a compilation. 3. For Keith to consider that Brian, Bill and Mick Taylor may be his Johnnie Johnsons. 2. An A Degree of Murder official release. 1. Other unreleased music (Stones or so
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