“Who can wrap their head around 60 fucking years?” The Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards poses that question in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, referring to the anniversary his band is celebrating this year. “It all seems impossible, that it’s been that long,” he says. Richards is reissuing …
Read More »Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos Detail 'Live at the Hollywood Palladium' Box Set
Keith Richards‘ December 15th, 1988 live recording of the penultimate show from his first U.S. tour with the X-Pensive Winos will be reissued as a limited edition box set. Live at the Hollywood Palladium arrives on November 13th via BMG. The concert was part of a 12-city tour that followed …
Read More »Hal Willner, Music Producer and Longtime 'SNL' Music Supervisor, Dead at 64
Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time Saturday Night Live staffer and compiled a series of offbeat and creative all-star tribute albums — died Tuesday at the age of 64. A rep for Willner confirmed the producer’s death to Rolling …
Read More »Keith Richards' Great Solo Debut, 'Talk Is Cheap,' Turns 30
During the mid Eighties, the relationship between Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hit a historic low, as Jagger tested solo waters. “Mick started to become unbearable.” Richards wrote in his 2010 memoir Life. You could hear the rift: 1983’s Undercover and 1986’s Dirty Work often sounded like lackluster attempts at …
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