Tag: Rolling Stones
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Aerosmith: That “Difficult Eighth Album”
The re-birth of Aerosmith in the late eighties appeared to happen overnight. However, Done With Mirrors was the comeback album that didn’t quite get them where they wanted to be. It took a couple of attempts before the nation was singing Love In An Elevator… Back in 1985 there didn’t seem to be many bands…
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What Is The Greatest Music Documentary of All Time?
What is the greatest music documentary ever made? The best ever film about music? The finest rock doc / rockumentary / biopic / live in-concert video / DVD or whatever else you want to call it? Yesterday’s announcement that (Don’t Look Back Director) DA Pennebaker will receive a lifetime achievement Oscar, plus the forthcoming release…
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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 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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A new use for all those old vinyl albums…
I stumbled upon an interesting idea this evening on Q Magazine’s pinterest site: entire portraits and worlds made out gatefold vinyl artwork.. A childishly simple idea that makes you wonder why no-one thought of it before. It transpires that the people at The Design Inspiration are rather good at it – you can see their…
Every record tells a story 