Andrew Loog Oldham Found without Satisfaction

Story HERE.

R.I.P.: Tom Wilkes

Tom Wilkes, a Grammy Award-winning art director and album cover designer whose work included albums for the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Neil Young and other music legends, has died. He was 69.
Wilkes, who was diagnosed with a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1999, died of a heart attack June 28 at his home in Pioneertown, California.
obit HERE
official website HERE
Rolling Stone article HERE

Related:
Remembering Tom Wilkes, Album Cover Designer

R.I.P.: Allen Klein

Music entrepreneur Allen Klein, blamed by many for contributing to the demise of The Beatles, has died in New York at 77 after suffering from Alzheimer's.
In a career spanning five decades, Klein earned a reputation as a ruthless operator, extracting lucrative deals from labels for his clients.
In the mid-1960s, he managed The Rolling Stones for five years.
Later managing The Beatles, he tried and failed to secure control of copyrights on their behalf.
BBC report HERE
more HERE

Frolicking Ronnie

He is facing a constant battle with alcoholism and a wrecked marriage that could cost him £50million.
But Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood looked as if he hadn't a care in the world as he frolicked with his 20-year-old girlfriend in the sunshine yesterday.
Still wearing a ring on his wedding finger-the 61-year-old enjoyed a picnic with Ekaterina Ivanova in Primrose Hill, North London.
more 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.

The Beatles & The Stones

Mick Jagger. All photographs by Bob Bonis, copyright 2009 by 2269 Productions, Inc.

Above, the Beatles at Key West. All photographs by Bob Bonis, copyright 2009 by 2269 Productions, Inc.

Forty-five years after the The Beatles and The Rolling Stones first came to America, an extraordinary collection of "lost" photos of the young bands has just been discovered. The 3500 photographs—extraordinary, intimate and unpublished—were taken by Bob Bonis, their U.S. Tour manager, during their first U.S. tours (1964, 1965 and 1966) and document perhaps the most critical point in their careers: coming to America.
press release HERE
slideshow HERE

Ladies and Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones

Senator Al Franken

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MINNESOTA: The Minneapolis Star Tribune writes that “Al Franken's 225-vote lead in the marathon U.S. Senate recount was unanimously certified Monday by the state Canvassing Board..."
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Celebrity Clowns

worth1000.com is in the throws of it's newest contest... and they look great!
see more HERE

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

Iconic Stones Tongue Sold

The original artwork for The Rolling Stones' iconic lips and tongue symbol has been bought by London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
The logo, originally designed in 1970 and used by the rock band ever since, sold in the US for $92,500.
BBC report w/video HERE

Ronnie Wood dating an 18 year old?

Ronnie Wood, 61, of the Rolling Stones is dating an 18 year old. The Daily Mail claims Ronnie has left his wife of 23 years for an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress named Ekaterina Ivanov.
The teenager has been telling her Facebook friends that she's having a relationship with Ronnie.
Ronnie's spokesperson said Ekaterina is a drinking partner and that Ronnie is in a bad way, "She is a drinking partner. When you're an alcoholic and your family are all telling you to stop drinking you simply find someone else to drink with. You can see how it happens, you end up pushing away the ones you love because you don't think straight."
The spokesperson also said that Ronnie is drinking 2 bottles of vodka a day and that he's not even clear enough to check into rehab even though his wife is begging him to. Ronnie is still talking to his kids and wife, but he's mostly only with his teenage "friend".
Ronnie's wife, Jo, seems to be in denial. She said, "They're not boyfriend and girlfriend - not in that way."
This is going to play out really creepy I think...

Charlie Watts

"It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it." - Charlie Watts

Note: video is two years old at time of posting

Rock n' Roll Pioneer Bo Diddley has Died

Archer, Florida -- Bo Diddley, the rock 'n' roll originator with the rectangular guitar whose signature beat influenced musicians from Buddy Holly to the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Springsteen, has died of heart failure. He was 79.
obit HERE
NPR story & podcasts HERE
watch/listen to a classic HERE

We're just sayin'...

...come to think of it...I did go on ONE family vacation to Mt. Rushmore...and I've seen the Stones live 15 times...hummm...including Jaggers' Birthday in 1978 and a lovely Halloween show with Curtrock back in the 1990's...

Muddy Waters 1913 - 1983

For many years a birth year of 1915 was reported; recent research uncovered documentation showing that in the 1930s and 1940s he reported his birth year as 1913 on both his marriage license and musicians union card

Rolling Stones Welcome

More than four decades after their 1964 gig at the Empress Ballroom finished in a riot, The Rolling Stones are finally being allowed back into Blackpool.
The band were bundled off stage as the ballroom erupted in violence, believed to have started after a member of the 7,000-strong crowd spat at guitarist Brian Jones.
A ban has effectively kept the band out of the resort ever since.
But the current council leader would like to see the situation remedied stating "...the ban is lifted. We reach out the hand of friendship. "What I am saying is: 'Come back Mick, all is forgiven.'"
BBC story HERE

Demon Life

Zachary Lazar's novel "Sway" makes a convincing case that dark forces can be summoned with the right incantation, and that Altamont and the Manson Family and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Kennedy brothers were the result of the world cheerfully deciding to go rabid-dog loony for a while.
The estrangement of Rolling Stone guitarist Brian Jones, above left, and his death are outlined in Zachary Lazar's novel.
review HERE
available HERE

More "Shine a Light" video

On April 4, 2008, an Academy Award®-winning filmmaker and the world's greatest rock n' roll band will unite to bring audiences the year's most extraordinary musical film event, "Shine a Light," to theaters everywhere.
Martin Scorsese's concert documentary "Shine a Light" will show the world the Rolling Stones as they've never been seen before. Filming at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City in fall 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band.

See more HERE