It may not be your cup of tea, but it’s definitely something – The Rolling Stones were joined by Taylor Swift at the band’s gig at the United Center in Chicago last night. They performed ‘As Tears Go By’, a song which has a really interesting story – it was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for Jagger’s then girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull. She went on to sing the song and actually made a top…
It’s nighttime in Paris; 600 lucky fans packed into the tiny La Trabendo rock club after paying $20 for a “secret event”. Definitely the best spent $20 in their lives, as they were treated to a royal surprise: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood aka The Rolling Stones, in case you come from another planet. The crows went wild as the Stones jumped right in and played their well known hits, including…
The Rolling Stones are back, people! Their new single, called “Doom and Gloom” will be released today, Thursday, receiving its first airplay on BBC Radio 2 at 8.15 pm GMT and will then be made available to download. The song is one of the two tracks they’ve recorded with producer Don Was. The track will be available on the band’s latest greatest hits compilation, “GRRR”, along with a song titled “One More Shot”. Although there’s…
Tom Waits’ newest album, Bad As Me, feels like a nice change from boring ol’ Rock & Roll. In fact, it’s everything but! As one goes from track to track, there’s soul, jazz, folk, some Spanish-sounding ballads, and more. Tom Waits has always been a versatile artist, and he sure shows it on his newest offering. Take the opening track, “Chicago.” It feels like the studio engineer hit “record” just a few seconds after the band…
The Rolling Stone Keith Richards is working on a memoir, the object of a multimillion-dollar bidding war that will be published by Little, Brown and Company in 2010. Would be nice to find out what he would have said in the 70s or 80 about publishing something like that in 2010. “It will be his life’s story,” Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch said Tuesday. “For nearly 50 years, he has been at the very centre…
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