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Results for Mick JaggerWhen the essence of an institution, individual or ideology can be distilled into a single dashed-off image, one has arrived: the American flag, the Elvis sneer, the hammer and sickle, Mick Jagger's lips. Whether first drawn by Andy Warhol, as popularly assumed, or Ruby Mazur, those lips and tongue are Jagger and the Stones then, now and forever and conjure up a contradictory mess of personal qualities and talents that refuse to give up center stage. Educated at the London School of Economics, elegant in the "you can never be too thin or too ric"' vein and energetic in the how-does-he-keep-up-with-himself mode, Jagger has been frontman for the Stones and star on his own for forty plus years and has no intention of fading away. In fact, "fade" does not appear in his vocabulary since each of his live appearances is a sweat-soaking, five senses pushed to the limit [especially hearing] workout for Jagger and the audience. The original Rolling Stones were the perfect foil for the Beatles, and Jagger has proved that the message and perhaps the man are ageless....more
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by Max Mobley•August 13, 2008•
Corporate greed predates Ebenezer Scrooge, so ultimately that’s not why ROI pop is more prevalent and insipid than ever before. The real difference between a Montana and a Monkee is technology.
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by Keith Altham•July 23, 2008•
Andrew Oldham is egotistical, talented, insulting, outrageous, and likeable almost in spite of himself. He manages the world's number two group, owns his own record company, produces discs, writes songs, sleeve notes, and poetry, and publishes the Beach Boys' music in Britain. In the hip vocabulary of pop music they say he is "happening." Perhaps Mama Cass stressed
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by Dinky Dawson•June 25, 2008•
I was starting to get a good buzz on when I decided it was time to work onstage. As the set ended, Baz tried to jump up onto the stage from the mixing consoles. Whack!—he missed his footing
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by Steve Matteo•May 28, 2008•
Bunyan had released a single in 1965 under Oldham’s direction. It was a cover of a Jagger-Richards song, "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" (the Rolling Stones’ version did not come out until the group’s Metamorphosis album, a collection of mostly unreleased tracks released in 1975). Under the direction of Oldham, Bunyan released a handful of singles in the mid-‘60s
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by Denise Sullivan•April 23, 2008•
"I thought their hair looked great"
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3/8/2008
GEORGE THOROGOOD gets bad to the bone in Houston on 3/13/08:
George Thorogood has a theory.
"In any field,...
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8/21/2007
Diane M: Good for you, that is, teaching this music history. And, the thing is about this era -- the music is strongly...
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6/21/2006
Good points about hearing them (Pigpen et.al.) warts and all. But, still, Pigpen couldn't carry a tune on any live...
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