(In the UK). My first record was "With The Beatles". My mum worked at Harrods (yup, that store in Knightsbridge) so she brought it home from work the day before official release. That was Thursday 21st November 1963. JFK was shot the next day.
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QuoteBliss Bill's son, Mandy's mother QuotePerhaps not surprisingly, Wyman and Smith are no longer in contact with each other. But just prior to the couple being divorced in 1993, things between the Wyman and Smith families took a bit of a left turn when Wyman's oldest son Stephen announced his engagement to Mandy Smith's mother, Patsy. That couple's marriage reportedl
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QuoteBliss In line with the latest news about Hollywood producers.. Delete if inappropriate. Nasty rock stars Contains the usual spicy fake news... "In an added wrinkle, Wyman's son from his first wife ended up marrying Smith's mother. " I've never found/learnt confirmation of that.
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QuoteDeltics On October 10, 1961 Brian Jones attended a concert at Cheltenham Town Hall by Chris Barber's Jazz Band featuring Alexis Korner on guitar who also performed a short R 'n' B set during the show's intermission. After the gig, Brian got talking to Alexis in a local bar about their mutual love of Chicago R 'n' B and Alexis gave him his address and phone numb
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QuoteKoen QuoteSilver Dagger Never heard of the Stones smashing any guitars. Not even Pete Townshend was smashing guitars pre-65. I vaguely remember a quote/story where Pete said he saw Keith breaking a guitar against the ceiling, accidentally or not. I think history is getting a bit conflated. Pete accidentally broke a guitar against a ceiling in a pub in North London. Pete saw Keith
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Quote2000 LYFH Here's another list - this time of the top 100 Beatle songs from "The Beatles Channel" on Sirius/XM radio (subscriber voting). Nice to see George have 3 in top 10. Also In My Life and Hey Bulldog seem like they should have been a little lower in the list. You Never Give Me Your Money is included twice! Where's Revolution #9? 1. A Day In The Life 1
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QuoteHairball QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteCristiano Radtke "In celebration of our 10 year anniversary, we took you on a journey to experience the magic backstage. We're coming together once again to give you a much more intimate look behind the scenes! Enjoy Come Together...Again - a series of behind the scenes videos captured by the Cirque Du Soleil team themselves. Celebrate LOVE this
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QuoteMisterDDDD Nice. Thanks Christiano. "West Coast exclusive.." caught my ear. May have been already known. Vegas it is!! So if that seems to rule out LA and/or SF, where will it go after Las Vegas and before Sydney Australia (Nov 2018)?
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QuoteHonkeyTonkFlash I thought he'd been using headphones ever since they started doing SFTD with a loop back on the Steel Wheels Tour. Yes, I could be wrong. That's what I also thought..... Should be fairly easy to check... look at the Atlantic City PPV DVD, or even At The Max?
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QuoteCristiano Radtke "In celebration of our 10 year anniversary, we took you on a journey to experience the magic backstage. We're coming together once again to give you a much more intimate look behind the scenes! Enjoy Come Together...Again - a series of behind the scenes videos captured by the Cirque Du Soleil team themselves. Celebrate LOVE this summer!" I must say
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QuoteCristiano Radtke Nice find, Honestman. Thanks for posting! It looks like there's a setlist on Bill's bass. It would be nice if we could read what's written on it. Asking. :-)
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QuoteHonestman Set of 4 pics newly discovered, from Brighton , March 10.1971 UK.No Credits Memories! I had to queue all night on the pavement a few weeks earlier to get my tickets. It was in an old Ballroom over a cinema near the Clock Tower in Brighton renamed "The Big Apple". Because it had been a ballroom it actually had a spring floor... which was in deed going up and d
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QuoteGasLightStreet So the MTV airing, which occurred September 6, the same night the Stones played Pittsburgh, was from the September 3rd show at C.N.E. Stadium in Toronto (I've yet to find out why they did that - it had to have been the wrong information). Mick in a white shirt and Ronnie playing a white Music Man. Mick says "It's a beautiful night". Audio of the
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Completely disgraceful! Our beloved Rolling Stones would never airbrush anyone out of their history, would they! Hang on..... Anybody seen my copy of Rarities?
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Quotepunkfloyd I remember waiting through the who crappy MTV awards show for this. video: I'm in Australia (& have watched it) and sent the link to a pal in the UK, and he wrote back...Tried to watch it – but it was blocked Ideas anyone?
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QuoteToxic34 I'm sure by now, many of you are aware that in a few months, Mick Fleetwood's special new pictorial autobiography Love That Burns, a chronicle of Fleetwood Mac up until 1974, will be published. Only 2000 copies shall be made, including 350 deluxe signed editions. Deluxe, leather-bound coffee table books like these are simultaneously everything music fans want in such a b
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Quotebonddm QuoteCaptainCorella Quotebonddm QuoteCaptainCorella Quotebonddm RocKwiz is a live music trivia quiz show from Melbourne, Australia. Check out Vika Bull absolutely nailing Merry Clayton's part on this. Vika, and her sister Linda, are simply amazing. They are so "close" that to hear them do harmonies and backups is stunning. I'm a huge fan of their work. Th
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Quotebonddm QuoteCaptainCorella Quotebonddm RocKwiz is a live music trivia quiz show from Melbourne, Australia. Check out Vika Bull absolutely nailing Merry Clayton's part on this. Vika, and her sister Linda, are simply amazing. They are so "close" that to hear them do harmonies and backups is stunning. I'm a huge fan of their work. The Rockwiz Orchestra are similarl
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Quotebonddm RocKwiz is a live music trivia quiz show from Melbourne, Australia. Check out Vika Bull absolutely nailing Merry Clayton's part on this. Vika, and her sister Linda, are simply amazing. They are so "close" that to hear them do harmonies and backups is stunning. I'm a huge fan of their work. The Rockwiz Orchestra are similarly good. The drummer is the long
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This is the tale about one of the photo's from the Mad Day Out...
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QuoteAquamarine Darn, I wish the Landmark Trust had owned this in the days when I lived over there and we took frequent Landmark weekends. (Can totally recommend this organization if anybody is thinking of using them, great value and every property is fascinating in different ways.) A fascinating collection of buildings that quite often were/are follys. 2 years ago we spent a week in Landma
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Anyone wanting a luxury weekend away with their very own Special Person might want to look here....
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QuoteRedhotcarpet http://www.aaronkrerowicz.com/beatles-blog/similarities-between-the-chord-progressions-of-ray-charles-georgia-on-my-mind-and-the-beatles-yesterday It's also very like this Nat King Cole song "Answer Me"
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Another sadly overused phrase here is "Don't Feed The Troll" (whatever name the Troll goes by).
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Quotepotus43 I do not understand why you keep attacking me! Please!!!! I'll not "attack" you, but give you some affectionate counselling. This topic is IORR's nod in the direction of The Beatles. It's an unavoidable fact that they were the great contemporaries of The Rolling Stones (and the band members were, and are, good friends) and still have a big following a
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QuoteStonedInTokyo Traveled from TOKYO to attend Exhibitionism on Chicago's Navy Pier yesterday. I paid $95.00 for the VIP laminate even though there was no line and probably less than 10 people there during the 90 minutes that I walked thru it. What I found most interesting were the scale models of the touring stages. However, my overall experience ended on a bad note, which I'll expla
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Quotecolonial QuoteCaptainCorella Quotecolonial That sounds very good indeed. I read that as saying that they were obtained,in person, by the person you are in touch with. Doing the arithmetic, she/he is probably getting on in years, so I'd hugely urge them, as soon as possible, to make some sort of legal deposition about how they were obtained, and that can stay with them as ver
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Quotecolonial QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteBamaStone I don't know how authentic the Beatles autographs would be unless your friend saw them sign, it has been well documented, they had their roadies Mal and Neil sign the majority of their stuff behind the scenes at that time.. This cannot be emphasised enough! Unless user colonial's friend has outstanding authentication on both sets, th
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QuoteMathijs According to Ron Schneider in his book Out of Our Heads the Stones hardly signed anything, and it was him who did all the signing. Mathijs And in the not inconsiderable era before he came along?..... Example: I'm reliably informed that two complete sets I have (on UK No1 and UK No2) were either done by the individual band members, or by Keith (who had the Mal/Neil job
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QuoteBamaStone I don't know how authentic the Beatles autographs would be unless your friend saw them sign, it has been well documented, they had their roadies Mal and Neil sign the majority of their stuff behind the scenes at that time.. This cannot be emphasised enough! Unless user colonial's friend has outstanding authentication on both sets, then it has to be assumed that there
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