Marianne Remains Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull came to prominence in the 60s in pop and rock and relationships with Mick Jagger and other rock figures. She dropped out for awhile due to a struggle with drug abuse, but has now had a distinguished long career in many different areas, working as a singer, songwriter, actress and diarist. She has collaborated with such people as David Bowie, Beck, Keith Richards, Tom Waits, Roger Waters and The Chieftains. She ranked No. 25 in VH1’s “100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll.”
The new album, EASY COME, EASY GO finds a serene, 62-year-old Faithfull decades removed from her tortured depths, singing with an almost regal calm. Faithfull's guests include Nick Cave, Cat Power, Antony Hegarty, Rufus Wainwright, and Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
sample music HERE and HERE

Weird Insurance Policies

1. Lloyd's has insured the smile of America Ferrera, star of the hit television show Ugly Betty, for $10m.
2. The London insurance market has also insured Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards' fingers and Marlene Dietrich's legs – and, according to one history book, actress Bette Davis once insured her waistline against expansion.
3. Lloyd's developed a policy to cover loss of chest hair which could adversely impact a person's image or career. Under the terms of the policy, the policyholder would have to lose more than 85pc of his chest hair through an injury to his chest in order to make a claim. This loss would have to be verified by a panel of trichologists.
4. In 2008 Dutch wine maker Ilja Gort insured his nose for €5m to cover against any incident that could threaten his livelihood.
5. It has also insured Santa's beard, providing coverage for Brady White – the professional Father Christmas at Macy's department store in New York who also visits the likes of Pamela Anderson and Rene Russo.
6. In June 2004, history was made when SpaceShipOne became the first privately manned aircraft to reach space. Lloyd's insurer Amlin was lead underwriter for the $100m liability policy for the craft.
7. One film company took out a million-dollar policy with Lloyd's against the possibility of one of their actresses falling in love and getting married during her contract service. In the early part of the 20th century, Lloyd's insured cinema goers against death from excessive laughter while at the cinema.
8. Formula One racing drivers at the front of the grid can buy cover for up to £50m, while those at the back are likely to have protection of around £500,000.
9. Golf: Hole-in-one insurances are regularly placed at Lloyd's, sometimes for as much as $50,000 a time.
10. In 2004, Lloyd's insured the £27m worth of jewelery worn by the stars at the Oscars.

Senator Al Franken

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The Lost Highway Men

Happy 65th Birthday Keith Richards

Streets of Stones

The town where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up is to name streets in a new estate after Rolling Stones hits.
The 13 streets in phase three of the Bridge development in Dartford, Kent, are to be given names such as Little Red Walk and Satisfaction Street.
BBC report HERE

Birthday Greetings to 'The Killer'

Willie Nelson at 75

Last week marked the 75th birthday of music legend Willie Nelson...
Not a year has gone by in the past 3 decades where Mr. Nelson and I haven't crossed paths, be it a huge concert arena with the late Waylon Jennings, The Highwaymen, Merle Haggard, a bar on the California coast or the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas.

I've pulled hard rock fans, punk rockers and even people who loved that crappy music from the 1980's by their hair to attend shows knowing one thing...no matter what you like, Willie Nelson is a GOD...they always walk out of the event with the 'Tao of Willie' and exclaim, "I have to tell my friends, they won't believe this..." It's the same over and over...and I just smile.

Willie isn't great, or even good, HE'S WILLIE FRICKIN' NELSON! And if you get the chance, don't pass it up...never pass it up because not everyone gets to stand in front of a GOD...
He's a little like his fellow miracle of nature, Keith Richards. Even beyond the fact some people think he's a little nuts, (in a good way) odd things seem to follow him around just waiting to happen. And there's nothing wrong with that...

Classic Keith Richards Audio Interview

listen to it HERE

Richards: 'Docs want my body when I die'

Keith Richards has revealed that doctors want him to donate his body to medical science when he dies.
The Rolling Stones rocker admitted he survived years of drug addiction and rock 'n' roll living because of his "incredible immune system".

"Doctors all over the world want my body when it finally goes. The 64-year-old also claimed to have beaten a blood disease without getting any medical treatment. "Apparently, I do have an incredible immune system. I had Hepatitis C and cured it myself. Just by being me.

"They (doctors) want it so they can study it and figure out how to make other people much better. I mean, I eat everything wrong. I shove terrible things inside me...

Keith: The Story won't die...

The things people do for their parents’ love. Keith Richards confirmed that he actually DID snort his father’s ashes.

The legendary rocker had told a British music magazine last April, “He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn’t have cared … It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.” He later said it was just a joke.

His statement wasn’t all a joke. It turns out when Richards opened his father’s urn, some of the ashes had spilled onto the table. "I looked at my dad’s ashes down there and - what am I gonna do? Do I desecrate them with a dustbin and broom? So I wet me finger and I shoved a little bit of Dad up me hooter," stated the rock legend.

“The rest of them I put round an oak tree, which is coming up a treat. And I’m sure he’s still blessing me,” he told Blender Magazine.
more HERE

And this surprizes us?

John, Keith & Eric

Rolling Stoned

Keith Richards "...smokes weed all the time."

The Rolling Stones guitarist - who was treated for heroin addiction in the late 1970's - admits he still loves getting high on cannabis, but no longer dabbles in hard drugs.

Richards said, "I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the time. There, you've got it. "But that's all I take, all I do. I do smoke and I've got some really good hash."

Referring to his heavy drug use in the 1960s and 1970s, he added, "People thought I was going to die. I never did - as you can see. The drugs? Oh yeah, they were great. "Now I'm on medication. Drugs now? It's a dodgy subject."

Keith's substance abuse earned him a notorious reputation as a hell raiser. The 64-year-old rocker was arrested on five separate occasions for drug-related offenses, and at one point was believed to have regular full-body blood transfusions to clean out his system.
more HERE

Last year, Keith claimed to have snorted his late father's ashes.

Is it a stretch to envision a Willie Nelson/Keith Richards Tour this summer...

The New Face of Louis Vuitton

Rolling Stones guitarist and rock-and-roll bad boy Keith Richards is to become the new public face of Louis Vuitton, the French luxury fashion house said on Tuesday.
For his first ever ad campaign, the 64-year-old Richards — who has a rocky history of drug use — is seen cradling his guitar on a hotel-room bed, the lights obscured by skull-print black drapes.

“Some journeys cannot be put into words. New York. 3 am. Blues in C,” runs the slogan of the ad, shot by US photographer Annie Leibovitz and due to appear in the magazine press next month.

Richards plans to donate the fee for the ad to the Climate Project, launched by Nobel-winning former US vice-president Al Gore and backed by Louis Vuitton.
more HERE

So...style and class meets snorting your dad's ashes off a hooker's ass…

The only other thing that comes to mind is…

Keith calls Mick "A Maniac" & "Power Freak"

In a wide-ranging interview, Keith Richards, 64, spoke about his relationship with Sir Mick Jagger, the Rolling Stone's energetic frontman.

Keith said, "Mick's a maniac. He can't get up in the morning without knowing immediately who he's going to call.
"Meanwhile, I just go 'Thank God I'm awake' and wait for three or four hours before I do anything. He is a power freak and there's nothing we can do about it. I don't want to do anything about it. Let him bugger about. It doesn't make any difference to what we do."

The legend was speaking from his home in the Turks and Caicos Islands to promote Shine A Light, Martin Scorsese's documentary about the Rolling Stones.
Read more HERE and HERE

Keith on Wino

Keith Richards has some advice for Amy Winehouse.
Keith told reporters at the Berlin Film Festival, "She should get her act together. Apart from that, I have got nothing to say to the bitch."

more HERE

Since it's Keiths' B-day Month...let's celebrate

Downloads:
"A Deuce and A Quarter" mp3
Keith Richards and Levon Helm, 1997.
available on All the King's Men

"Say It's Not You" mp3
George Jones and Keith Richards, 1994.
available on Bradley Barn Sessions

"Tanqueray" mp3
Johnnie Johnson with Keith Richards, 1991.
available on Johnnie B. Bad

"That Kind of Fool" mp3
Jerry Lee Lewis with Keith Richards, 2006.
available on Last Man Standing - The Duets

"Little Queenie" mp3
Keith Richards and Jerry Lee Lewis, 1983.
available on Rolling His Own (bootleg)

"Let it Rock" mp3
Rockpile with Keith Richards, 1978
available on Elvis Goes To Washington
and Dave Edmunds and Rockpile Don't (bootleg)

"Worried Life Blues" mp3
Keith Richards and Ian Stewart, 1977.
available on Rolling His Own (bootleg)

"Dark Eyes" mp3
Bob Dylan, Ron Wood, and Keith Richards, 1985
Backstage at Live Aid (bootleg)

"Over The Rainbow" mp3
Keith Richards and Bobby Keys, 1981.
(bootleg)

A Keith and Dave Holiday

Download: "The Harder They Come" mp3
by Keith Richards, 1978.

Download "Run Rudolph Run" mp3
by Keith Richards, 1978.
non scratchy version available @ itunes store.

Download: "Run Rudolph Run" mp3
by Dave Edmunds, 1982.
available on Party PartyOST

Keith Richards is 64

Keith's Connection to Kooky Candidate

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is trying to burst out of the pack. He is one of three Republican candidates who believes that God invented the world 6000 years ago and put down billions of older fossils and facts because God sent his only son on Earth to confuse scientists.
Huckabee is the latest it girl of the Republican presidential race and he tells a hell of a story. Recently he cornered a Rolling Stone magazine correspondent. You see, Keith Richards and Ron Wood got pulled over for reckless driving while on tour in Fordyce, Arkansas in 1975. Richards ended up getting a misdemeanor conviction -- an injustice that stood for thirty-one years, until Huckabee, a would-be rock musician himself, stepped in and pardoned Richards last year.
this story gets better and better...read it HERE

1975? ...we'll wager that Keith barely remembers....