Arguably the text was drafted by a failed ChatGPT prototype....
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Quotetreaclefingers What exactly was the merchandising 'plot', before now? Here's the answer.
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Neither the posting by midimannz, nor the link, make it clear quite how extraordinary the rain in Auckland was. From a news report. > Between 8pm and 10pm on Friday night, more than 131mm of rain fell in Auckland. MetService said a record amount of rain had fallen in the city in the past 24 hours. By 1am, the region had recorded 249mm of rain, exceeding the previous 24-hour record of 161.8
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Historians will look back at this moment and identify it as the moment that The Rolling Stones (merchandising) lost the plot.
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I guess I have to point out that this "rumour" of Paul McCartney recording with The Stones is not as absolutely far fetched as everyone seems to think. Here's a well documented example of Paul happening to be in a studio, hearing something by someone else, and volunteering to add something to the track. I would not put it past him to do just that for a Rolling Stones trac
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There's also an exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery
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It's the "Mick Jagger Collection" of harmonicas.
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QuoteHis Majesty The wording of these things could be so easily done. "... and went on to be founding members of The Rolling Stones." Thanks you. Yes. A historically correct wording is easy to do. They could easily add words reflecting that The Glimmer Twins were (are?) central to the band's success and longevity. But Mr Kite (the Council Leader) is only interested in his o
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I'll admit to John Lennon Paul McCartney Pete Townshend Keith Moon (Which on seeing the list like that, if it had ever come about, would have made an interesting SuperGroup)
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Quotepichenot Rien à foutre de leurs salades royales! De leur rouquin vampirisé par la superficielle starlette. Which Google reckons is... "Nothing to give a damn about their royal salads! Of their redhead vampirized by the superficial starlet."
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QuoteThe Sicilian All I want to hear at the coronation are bag pipes, some drumming, and a choir "Mull of Kintyre" - smart choice.
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Which Books?... Phelge's, Sam Cutler's, Bill German's are all imperative. Andrew Loog Oldham's books are worthy. Obviously Bill Wyman's. And if you take it with a pinch of salt and you can manage to penetrate the curious form of english in which it's written, Keith's book. For reference, Martin Elliott's volumes. Visually an unequalled recor
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QuoteDoxa Well, doesn't Keith already have experience of those gigs... Or maybe he thinks one was enough... - Doxa Good call. But perhaps, as he's more experienced than most at singing in the Abbey, he could firm up on a gig during the actual ceremony.
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I quote "The pair were born and raised in the town, before famously meeting at the local railway station and forming one of the most successful groups in history." Another insidious rewriting of history.
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Stones - not a chance! With luck they'll be playing somewhere else in the world that day. Who knows, another date for a cancelled show at Hanging Rock? But, even though I'm not the tiniest bit a fan of Queen (the band) giving (Sir) Brian May the opportunity to repeat his guitar playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace escapade should not be missed. PS. This really ought to be
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QuoteCongratulations QuoteHairballNice...what an incredible show that must have been....The Beatles and the Stones together! As well as Brian Poole and The Tremeloes, The Searchers, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas, Freddie and The Dreamers, (probably) The Dave Clark Five... all really great acts, but
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Listen to the first few words of this....
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QuoteMononoM Watch out when you install tiktok on your phone, the chinese will install backdoors on it! dont trust it. its not safe. A sufficient number of well reputed agencies from a wide range of nation states have confirmed this. Do I absolutely know this - of course I do not. You need technical skills and facilities far above those available to most people to be able to determine this
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QuoteCongratulations QuoteCaptainCorella I was there. :-) An appropriate response in a thread that's supposed to be about Beatles vs Stones.... because The Beatles were also on the bill. Oh wow! Can you recall if they did 1 or 2 more songs? And were The Dave Clark Five any good? Their footage is missing! The Beatles were incredibly sloppy that night ('You Can't Do That&#
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QuoteCongratulations It was even more exciting live! One of my all-time favourite live performances... I was there. :-) An appropriate response in a thread that's supposed to be about Beatles vs Stones.... because The Beatles were also on the bill. This same clip was among the colourised stuff that had a link here a few weeks ago.
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QuoteHairball But again, the Stones cover version of Not Fade Away is absolutely fantastic with it's Bo Diddley infused beat, Apparently when Bo met Brian Jones he told him that he (Brian) was the only other person who had ever managed to get that Bo Diddley beat right.
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Hey... getting a tad OT here guys!
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QuoteRockman The lovely ladies in the above photo are holding out something called a "Pixerama foldbook of The Rolling Stones" . These were produced in 1964. Others in the series include The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five and London Airport. Pull out the 'concertina' and on one side (see above) there are photo's, and on the other a few paragraphs about the lads.
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Yes. Very interesting. Predictably I'd love to see the release of films that we know the Stones have made over the years that follow a similar theme....
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QuoteIrix Former Ealing Jazz Club via Google StreetView in July 2021: If you click on the street view link (do it right now) and then home in on the blue plaque below where it says "Clark Foyster" you can read all about how the birth of British Rhythm and Blues came about on this spot. A very significant venue. When the site was being "redeveloped", the painted pla
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QuoteCongratulations I was referring to him striking business deals that allowed him to produce the band's recordings and gave him complete control of the master recordings. No-one else was doing that in 1964. I know. That's why I only mentioned his utterly disrespectful, and misleading, treatment of the RSG! shows.
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QuoteCongratulations Dave Clark had (and still has) far more control over the band's music than the Beatles, the Stones, and just about everyone else. A real pioneer. Hmmmm.... Whilst he most definitely gets a vast amount of credit for saving the video tapes of Ready Steady Go! (which would otherwise have been deleted), he loses almost all of the credit for the way he treated the recor
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Quoteslewan well, at least the Beatles wrote their song while the Stones covered Chuck Berry It's impossible to overemphasise how important the above point actually is. Up until then it was 100% assumed that the artists would be the puppets of the A&R folk in the record company. The chance combination of Lennon/McCartney and the maverick George Martin (for all of his assumed posh a
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QuoteMrBird65 Hi, bought this at a store at Carnaby Street in the 80s. Long time ago... Was stored among other things in the garage and found it last weekend. Still like it and will hang it on my walls again. What I want to know: Is this a genuine merchandise poster from the 60s? Put the image somewhere where it's not necessary to log in to see it. Thanks.
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QuoteRockman Fitzroy River floods -- Western Australia 2023 ---- Photo Andrea Myers The current floods in Western Australia are astonishing in scale. The river mentioned above is currently flowing with an excess amount of water per day sufficient to serve the needs of Perth (State Capital city) for 90 years. PBStones: The Stones were in Perth when the death was reported of Jagger
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