Didn't Noddy Holder say that the ongoing royalties from "Merry Christmas Everybody" have bought him his last two houses?
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QuoteBig Al QuoteLien Artwork with citymap looks like this shirt 'Shepherds Bush Common'? I live in the area, and have never once heard it referred to as that. It's colloquially known as 'Shepherds Bush Green' Wise point. My own grandparents lived nearby and my grandfather had a stall in the local market. As far as I can tell the artwork is a reproductio
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QuoteIrix Shepherds Bush Empire (London, UK), 8-Jun-1999 - . I was there! Guess I'll have to buy myself a souvenir... but is it only being release in France? WTF!
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QuoteThe Joker I'm very fond of the very tasteful pink 12" vinyl edition.
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Synthesized Euro-Dance-Pop.
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Quotebv QuoteMisterO Frankie Valli is 90 and is still touring. Including performing three show's in three days in different cities. I hope to see him perform this September in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Who knows maybe the Stones have 10 plus years a head of them! Did you actually see Frankie Valli (age 90) live on stage? Don't forget that Wyman will be 88 in about 3 weeks time.
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QuoteTubeman They might have been touring Australia this month AFL in Australia baulked at $20m for 4 songs (As opening Act for Grand Final yesterday) </irony> Must be true, it was in the Daily Mail </endirony> Somewhere in the innards of iorr there's a well sourced posting that gives an informed account of how much The Stones charge for a private (or one-off??) gig.
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QuoteAquamarine I first saw her in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she had amazing longevity as an actress. And was super-cool till the very end. She was also wonderful in Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van. I VERY much agree! Those are performances for which she should be remembered, rather than the Downton/Potter ones.
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QuoteRockman But what gets me is if you're not happy with it why did you give it more oxygen ??? I never, ever, wrote that I was not happy. I'd bothered to read what you posted and I was admitting incomprehension and was seeking meaning in the placing of the posting. If you read my short query another way, then that's your problem.
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QuoteRockman Print Run --- The Wire 485 --- July 2024 What am I missing? How is that article sufficiently either Beatles or Stones related to be in this thread?
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QuoteRisingStone So the truth is The Sound of Music soundtrack outselling Sargent Pepper or Are You Experienced, let alone Their Satanic Majesties Request, in 1967. And the majority of the households had to be content with watching The Avengers or The Prisoner in black and white rather than in colour. So much for the swinging, isn’t it? Note This is NOT, double repeat NOT, a lame spelling f
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QuoteIrix QuoteProfessorWolf time to transfer all those hard drives back to tape There would be far better solutions for long-term data preservation, e.g. laser-inscribed quartz glass which is durable for 1020 years. But such solutions are probably (very) expensive. But that would still be digital which would upset the analogue purists...
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QuoteProfessorWolf time to transfer all those hard drives back to tape (digital tape that is) wikipedia.org Interesting sub-thread which perhaps should be cut out of the Beatles vs Stones and made free standing. I'd never heard of this format and read the Wiki link. There I found this.... LTO tape is designed for 15 to 30 years of archival storage.[52][53] If tapes are arch
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If you live outside of the USA or the UK, then getting hold of a real hard copy of this album is something of a challenge. My copy finally arrived yesterday and I've now listened to it..... As ever Bill works with outstanding musicians. The band works really well, and Terry Taylor is, as usual, a standout. The music is just right - very blues influenced. Those are frequent observations
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The issues described here will most surely make any European Tour more complicated in many ways. (That goes for all bands, not just The Rolling Stones).
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QuoteTornAndFried QuoteRicky A Mick Jagger Handwritten Set List: I recognize some of the songs on the setlist (Mona, You Better Move On, Not Fade Away...), but not others... anyone here with a better reading perception? Thanks 1. TBY = Talkin' (A)bout You (Chuck Berry) 2. W.Dog = Walkin' The Dog (Rufus Thomas) 3. Mona = Mona (Bo Diddley) 4. Johnny = Bye Bye Johnnie (Chuck Berry
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Here's a link to the actual auction
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Everyone reading this is bound to know about the Charlie quote.... "Five years playing, 20 years hanging around" The TV documentary where he said that was originally shown on the BBC in 1986 and Charlie's answer was to a question put by David Hepworth. BUT.. for reasons wholly incomprehensible, later releases of the SAME documentary have the question overdubbed by someone w
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Quoteserpico71 "In molti si aspettano a breve le nuove date per le tappe europee, e secondo le nostre fonti sarebbero già in fase di organizzazione delle date italiane, di cui una quasi certamente all’Olimpico di Roma." Prof. Google says that the above translates to... "Many expect soon the new dates for the European stages, and according to our sources they would already be
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The link points to which is all about the time The Rolling Stones brought Howlin' Wolf to the screens of the USA TV watchers. One of my favourite clips of early Stones. Brian is pretty much jumping up and down with excitement introducing Wolf. Great stuff. The pianist at the start of the Wolf video is a young Billy Preston.
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QuoteGreen Lady Twickenham no longer exists. The Rugby Football Union have sold off the stadium naming rights for loadsamoney, so we all have to learn to call it the Allianz Stadium. Yeuk. Here in Melbourne we have a similar situation. The naming rights to one particular stadium were sold to Marvel, so the public broadcaster (no advertising allowed) has to call it Docklands Stadium, and ever
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Quoteastmalia How important must The Rolling Stones be that for nearly half a century there are still discussions as to why their performance started a few hours late. "How important?" Very. We're being historians here. Getting the history of events right is important. There's a version of what happened that night that is unpleasant. If it's false (some sort of U
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QuoteKurt Isn't this a thread about Knebworth? Yes. Can anyone here tell the real tale behind the long gap, and provide me a pointer to proof. (Believe me, I've hunted hard!)
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QuoteGasLightStreet Gonna have to work on a playlist of songs whose titles are never sung. Genuinely interesting idea. When you've thought it through, take it to a fresh thread and let's keep this one to the "Beatles vs Stones" subject please. And while you're at it, remember to mark it as OT:
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QuoteWendy The 1976 Rolling Stones Knebworth commemorative set includes for the next two weeks only the Knebworth 1976 festival T shirt. All the items, including the 6 CDs and 3 DVDs the set includes can be viewed on the following page And the book written by the promoter (inc with the set) tells you the real reason they were so late on stage! Well, I've very carefully searched my (
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Quotellsbsk Happy viewing. Bruce That's a truly extraordinary site!
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Interesting. I'd really like to hear The Star Club tapes cleaned up. And that may indeed be happening as Peter Jackson owns them and Apple know. Plus there is that tape from the Stowe School show found last year.....
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Quotefrankotero Anyhow, I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift has out-sold The Beatles and Stones combined. I though I'd use the power of Google to look at that data. OK, usual heavy disclaimers about accuracy and the need to do full research, which this does not claim to be. So I asked Google three questions... 'Total record sales for {Taylor Swift | The Beatles | The Rolling Stone
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteNICOS I know..............The Beatles out sold them all and I don't think this will ever change. How can you credibly claim that no one will ever outsell The Beatles? You really need to be informed of that? That's absurd. One of the many problems of a global World Wide Web, and forums like this, is that users may well not know if Englis
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QuoteNICOS I know..............The Beatles out sold them all and I don't think this will ever change. How can you credibly claim that no one will ever outsell The Beatles?
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