Billy Idol said that at Mick Jagger’s birthday party Keith and Ronnie were drinking Rebel Yell Bourbon and he asked them could he borrow the brand name to write a song and they didn’t cavil. So I’ve idly wondered if the Stones’ sex-with-a-dancer lines in ROCKS OFF at all influenced Billy to include his sex-with-a-dancer lines in REBEL YELL.
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QuoteTurner68 Caught me totally off guard but was fun to have so much stones music in a movie and to have it woven into the story Just saw this this evening. Not just the music is of the Stones! ** Spoiler alert ** In a flashback interview Fiennes comments on Brian Jones's death. And then Fiennes later dies similarly to Brian with similar who-did-what? aspects. Also love triangle aspects
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If only Mick had named her Jane: (More soi-disant than Mick, methinks.)
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In Cynthia Lennon's memoir A Twist of Lennon she said John was furious after the Beatles/Ali encounter because John thought Ali was such a brat.
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Mick actually appears in their new Drag Queen video literally for fractions of a second (three times close together). See if you can find him.
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The "curious" addressed below (from a review of Philip Norman's new Paul McCartney biography in the 4/25/16 New Yorker). Makes me think of that French adage: les extremes se touchent.
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Keith in A LIFE ON THE ROAD says about Ronnie, "Then, to cut a long story short, he's suddenly playing with Rod Stewart and he's a star on his own—and didn't he know it?! The way he'd dress was unbelievable. It's taken years to tone it down." I'd have loved to witness the Stones' tactics to tone down Ronnie's habiliments.
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Not dissimilar, maybe just coincidence:
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What do we do if the Stones name their next album Off Topic?! And their next single?!
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Doom and Gloom, I was listening to it in my car this morning. You could call it Ragnarök rock.
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Congrats! (A post-mentopausal Carrie Fisher expressed exasperation that Warren Beatty in his 50s said he'd "like to have children someday." It's biology, baby.)
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New to me.
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Mick even said that Keith's voice was better for some of the country tunes, and I thought of The Worst.
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QuoteNICOS QuoteTitle5Take1 Mick in Musician complained how Stevie had taken five years to do his—then— last album and Mick thought, "Couldn't he do this every year?" I wish Mick would now take his own advice with the Stones! Do what? Make a Stones album every year.
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Mick in Musician complained how Stevie had taken five years to do his—then— last album and Mick thought, "Couldn't he do this every year?" I wish Mick would now take his own advice with the Stones!
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Mick said the A BIGGER BANG title was inspired by David Hockney's painting A Bigger Splash:
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A real rock-history nut might want to see the Stones...and stay in the room where Gram Parsons died on the same trip >>>
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Well, one thing I learned from the book is that Mick was writing Marsha Hunt love letters as Marianne lay in a coma.
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What about Bill's quote?
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In the Brian piece by Rob Chapman in The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones (that originally appeared in Mojo) Brian does come across as a possible sociopath.
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Johnny has suggested he's almost illiterate so hopefully he got a good co-writer. I think he's a great rock rhythm guitarist. He's a rare one who can play a straight chord (no riff) and it sounds like no one else. Billy Idol said in his memoir he saw Jones play on a borrowed guitar and amp and his sound was still there: "It must be in his fingers." I liked Jones's
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I liked Cohen's personal anecdotes of his time spent with the Stones, but the rest of the book is half-baked and pretentious. He's sort of the anti-Bill German (a compliment to Bill German). Bizarre Mick okayed such an untried second-rater to write "Vinyl." It's nice that Charlie liked Cohen so much (as Keith told Cohen) but that doesn't mean he should be given carte
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Great responses. Most got that my "question" was sort of "impressionistic," in the hopes of impressionistic answers (anecdotal, opinionated, etc.), which have been very interesting. I've marveled at the Doors being among the most trained among rock bands, but it was the totally untrained member—Jim Morrison—who started as the main song writer, until one day he told the
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In The Sun and the Moon and the Rolling Stones is this line: "According to Oldham, Brian just didn't have it. He prospered when musicianship was everything, but struggled when writing became paramount." p 105 Which echoes Bill in his coffee-table Stones book: "Brian had more musical talent than the rest of the Stones combined." Combined! Am I supposed to tell an asp
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteTitle5Take1 I'm only aware of one Worried About You (non-live) official release. Where are these others from? They are most likely all the same take, just with different overdubs and rough mixes done for listening. The Virgin release of WANNA HOLD YOU has an extra couplet the Atlantic release didn't have ("...an offer you can't refuse.") Is th
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I'm only aware of one Worried About You (non-live) official release. Where are these others from?
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INDIAN GIRL (I think Bill Janovitz summed up the song perfectly).
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QuoteThe Worst. I guess most people on here would react very differently if The Rolling Stones suddenly stood behind you and called you by name. Reminds me of Muhammad Ali sneaking up on kid fans >>>
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And John Lennon claimed I FEEL FINE as the first feedback.
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