Tag: Keith Richards
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Ten Highlights of Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones at Saatchi Gallery
After Londoners were treated to the wonders of such rock n roll ephemera as a cocaine spoon and the Eno suitcase synth on display at the Bowie V&A exhibition a few years ago, the Rolling Stones had a challenge on their hands. What would this new Rolling Stones Exhibition – entitled “Exhibitionism” reveal? …
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The Story Of The Blues (Part One)
Keith Richards remembers the first time he heard the blues, because it hit him pretty hard. He recalled the moment in his foreword to Robert Gordon’s “Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters”: “I heard Muddy through Mick Jagger. I met him on a train around 1961. He had a Chuck Berry…
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Rock Stars in Comics: Coldplay, McCartney, Elvis and Kiss
Despite the obvious merits of the comic books I enjoyed many years ago such as Sin City, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns and so on (I lost touch with things in the mid-nineties) comic books have unfortunate baggage that accompanies them. If you ever look up the word “Geek” in the dictionary, there tends to…
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Sorry, Frampton Comes Alive, But The Best Album of 1976 Was Aerosmith’s Rocks
As expected, Aerosmith‘s ‘Rocks’ did not feature heavily in the BBC’s The Great Album Showdown – a show that sought to identify the Finest Rock Album of All Time. Yet in my estimation it was certainly worthy of a second look… The rise of Aerosmith in the USA in 1975 was stratospheric. Sales of ‘Toys…
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Rock Star Quotes Quiz
Rock Star Quotes can be fun to look back on… OK, so Christmas is over, but perhaps you have some time off, and there’s a quiet morning stretching ahead of you. Or maybe you are sitting through the Christmas special of Downton Abbey and wondering why your own aged relatives’ attempts at humour are never…
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Rolling Stones 50: Photo Exhibition at Somerset House
A Rolling Stones Photo Exhibition is a wonderful thing. There’s rock history seeping from every image. Once the place where every proud father in London would go to register the birth of his new-born child, this most British of institutions, Somerset House, just off The Strand, has begun to get a bit more rock n…
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The Top Ten Best Rolling Stones Books…ever!
The best books about the Rolling Stones? Read on… The Rolling Stones pretended they wouldn’t be touring in 2012 to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and Keith claimed that as Charlie didn’t join the band until 1963, he had a decent get-out clause to postpone the festivities until next year. So whilst we waited patiently for…
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The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones…and The Best Music Books of All Time
The 26th April 2012 sees the re-release of one of the greatest Rock Books of all time – The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth. The book mixes a history of the band with a first hand account of being The Stones’ live-in writer at the height of their notoriety. Extraordinarily, it…
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