That is actually my dream Rank! Would have looked better in '67/'68 but better late than never. I was picturing a couple of nights at the Royal Festival Hall (just because that's where they seem to hold all these shows like Love doing Forever Changes & the Pretty Things doing SF Sorrow - incidentally from '68 so there is a precedent). I would pay absurd amounts of mone
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I took a pissbreak during Tumbling Dice at one of the Wembley shows last time. I agree with Bob, the song has done it's job, retire it.
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Mathijs may seem to court controversy but that doesn't necessarily make his arguments invalid. Limiting discussion to just the Pope issue, I am in general agreement with him. The 25 million figure is not sensible to throw at John Paul as it is the overall total of Aids deaths. The actual amount of Catholics who died (& continue to die) who could have been saved by a simple condom is far
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19TH Nervous Breakdown is pretty Dylanesque & Something Happened To Me Yesterday is probably an affectionate tribute/pisstake of Bob. Have to agree with Deirdre re Bob's singing: I find it is usually unengaged with the emotion of the song (& Lay Lady Lay is a fine exception to this). He's never come close to the passion & warmth Mick delivers in 'Winter'.
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Considering The Knitter's pic featured an anti-Nazi symbol I can't see the problem. The Stones world does frequently embrace, or at least intersect with, the larger worlds of politics & religion. The Stones in their heyday often condemned fascism and sometimes organised religion. The Archbishop of Canterbury in the 60's once described Mick's gilfriend of the time (MF) as i
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She was a good actress. Spot on in Performance and more than adequate in A Degree of Murder. She also looked fantastic in Barbarella as the witch queen too but at least in the version I have her voice seems to have been dubbed by Fenella Fielding!
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Yeah but one of the above hasn't been a functioning unit for 35 years now. It's time people got over them.
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Let's face it, '78 was the height of sartorial elegance compared to the fashion disaster that was '81/'82!
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I didn't realise people did slag off the clothes/look much on the '78 tour. Looked fine to me apart from Mick's cap which did irritate me (whereas I thought the 'Destroy' shirt was a nice understated nod towards punk & that they shared a lot in common). "It's the last tour where the critics were prepared to just listen to the music without questoning the
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What about this line..... If I look hard enough into the settin' sun My love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes I'd guess he means they can only now be together in dreams.
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I wouldn't put too much weight on anything printed in the Sunday Star.
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McCartney wrote the double-time middle section to Day In The Life but you're right LA Forum as the references to Tara Browne are in the opening section that Lennon penned. Thanks Rorty, I agree with you about Jagger's lyrics (esp. the 60's & 70's stuff): hugely underrated in general.
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That's just one possible reading Mathijs, no more. I heard the comma was inserted by mistake.
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Cheers Stikkyfinger and good luck with the research project Corinne!
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Hi Corinne. Good choice of song (my all-time fave anyway). Although the song is frequently used in Nam movies & in the tv series Tour Of Duty it was not overtly an anti-war song or even about the war except possibly at the level of mood and tone which could feasibly have influenced Jagger's writing. He's always been evasive as far as I am aware as to the song's meaning. It
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I think he lives in Paris. I hope no French tax Inquisitors are reading your post Joker!
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The one in St Anne's church was called 'Blazing Away'. Know what you mean about the faux-reggae thing though it was only on a few songs. I think 'Times Square' may even be her best song but there are a lot of contenders. It was written by Barry Reynolds who used to be closely involved in her recorded and live work until relatively recently; I don't know what's h
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It just meant I'll go along with that, ie your comments
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A fantastic album and her best since Broken English.
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I'll buy that for a dollar Chelsea
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I have no deep respect for the Pope whatsoever. I posted something irreverent rather than potentially offensive bearing in mind there are those that do.
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Hey Gazza, you got there before me with the Californian summer though I was going to say Feb 1st to Dec 31st as I believe they sometimes have to get their sweaters out in January.
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"Melanie's rendition is alot easier to like. Jagger and Brian make it harder. Jagger's weird vocal" ???!!! Chelsea, I do really like Melanie's cover but I'm completely baffled by these comments. The Stones version is very straightforward and accessible whereas Melanie's vocal has to be one of the most bizarre and idiosyncratic in pop history like the way she pr
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I personally think Popes have gone downhill since John Paul George Ringo's days.
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I don't think this was a movie. If it's the one I'm thinking of it was a doc. on the making of One Plus One. I'll have to look this up though & check!
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Mick was interested enough in his past to pay several thousand quid for the old Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys tape at auction a few years ago. (possibly just to stop anyone else ever putting it out of course)
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To add to the growing list of unreleased Stones films (Whitehead's 'Charlie', Frank's '@#$%& Blues', 'Ladies & Gentlemen' etc.) there is a new one apparently, according to the Radio Times. It was shot by Jane Treays who made 'Extreme Families' for British tv, during the Licks tour and cost a million quid but is now residing in the Stones archi
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They did Connection as well I believe.
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Can't argue with the 'warpaint' version of JJ Flash. I also love the Peter Whitehead promo for We Love You: never tire of this. The weirdest has to be Child of the Moon which has an eery pagan vibe. I'd love to get this in great quality, preferably in colour. What's the quality like on this new Rewind dvd Marclaff?
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I suspect mueva las carreras's post was not entirely serious. I'm not a basher of 'Primitive Cool' now this is "in vogue" but have bashed it since the day it came out. Far and away Jagger's low-point in recording history though I wouldn't go quite as far as Mathijs!
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