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The pope and the Stones, superstars of Copacabana

RIO DE JANEIRO, Rio de Janeiro (AFP) –  Pope Francis has shown that his message of renewed faith in Jesus Christ can compete with the Rolling Stones and their Sympathy for the Devil.
Seven years after the rock legends lured throngs to Copacabana for an epic concert, organizers of a Catholic youth event say Pope Francis attracted 1.5 million to Rio de Janeiro's legendary beach on Thursday.
Apart from New Year's fireworks that attract countless revelers to the crescent moon-shaped beach every year, nobody had brought so many people to Copacabana until Mick Jagger and Keith Richards came to town.
On February 18, 2006, the British superstars who sold millions of records drew the biggest crowd of their storied career.
Various estimates say between one million and 1.7 million people flooded the beach to see the bad boys of rock n' roll for their "Bigger Bang" tour.
But 76-year-old Pope Francis showed that he commands just as much star power as Sir Mick, who turns 70 on Friday.
Crowds shrieked and chanted the pope's name as his jeep with open sides and a glass top took him to a giant white stage on the beach.
The pope, with his resplendent white robe, stood on a giant white stage with a towering cross illuminated by a blue light.
Large screens and speakers beamed his ceremony to people standing at the other end of the beach.
Apart from the large stages and endless crowds, the comparison ends there.
The pope stood soberly on a podium while Jagger and the Stones danced the night away.
And the pontiff is staying in a quiet hillside residence, while "Their Satanic Majesties" spent their nights in the beachfront Copacabana Palace hotel.

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Jo Ronnie Wood Lasers Off Ronnie Butt Tattoo...

Ronnie Wood - Jo Ronnie Wood Lasers Off Ronnie Butt Tattoo

by WENN

Ronnie Wood's ex-wife Jo has undergone a procedure to remove a tattoo tribute to the Rolling Stones star on her butt.
Jo Wood, Ronnie's second wife, was devastated after splitting from the guitarist in 2008, but after he exchanged vows with theatre producer Sally Humphreys last December (12), she decided it was time to put memories of their broken relationship behind her.
Jo explains, "I had my tattoo of him taken off my bum. It was only a little caricature of him - his hair, his little mouth, his little nose. I stood there one day, looked at it, and thought, 'It's time for that to come off.' I went to the doctor and he said, 'We can laser it. It'll take six or seven sessions.' I said, 'Cut it out then.' I thought, 'I can't have my ex-husband on my bum when he's married.'"
The 58 year old is now dating an engineer she met through friends, but admits they had an awkward exchange at the start of their relationship when she revealed her ex-husband is a rock icon.
She tells the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine, "We were talking and he said, 'So you've been married before?' I said, 'Yes, actually, my ex-husband was famous.' He asked how famous, then I thought, 'Oh God, I've got to tell him,' so I said, 'Well, quite famous actually...' and I had to tell him who it was. He said, 'You're lying.' When I told him I wasn't, he just said, 'Oh'. I thought I'd put him off totally, but he said, 'I really like you but keep me in the background...'
"It took five years to be able to finally meet somebody I liked. I thought about it a lot. 'What sort of man's going to take me out?' He said, 'You should be going out with the likes of Simon Cowell.' But I don't want that. I want to have a life that I enjoy with a nice, normal guy and somebody my kids like. They think he's nice."

 Stars Send Birthday Messages To Mick Jagger

Sir Mick Jagger's famous friends and fans took to the Internet on Friday (26Jul13) to send messages of congratulations as the Rolling Stones star turned 70.
The music legend's milestone created a buzz on Twitter.com and the singer was flooded with birthday greetings from devotees from around the world.
Jagger's partner L'Wren Scott gave fans a glimpse into the star's private birthday celebrations by posting a picture of a big pile of gift-wrapped presents on her Instagram.com page with the message, "Happy Birthday Mick Jagger... The most kind and adoring man... Love to you."
The singer's Rolling Stones bandmate Ronnie Wood also sent a public birthday message to his friend - in a post on Twitter.com, he wrote, "Hey - Happy birthday Mick Jagger! Enjoy & have fun," while Jagger's ex-wife Bianca added, "Happy birthday Mick Jagger - May the Good Lord shine a light on you warm like the evening sun, xx Bianca."
One Direction star Harry Styles also sent a birthday message to the veteran musician, writing, "Happy birthday Mick Jagger legend," and former U.S. President Bill Clinton also took time to honour the star: "Everyone wants the moves like Jagger... but Mick Jagger, you're one of a kind. Happy Birthday, friend!"
Rocker Lenny Kravitz offered, "Happy Birthday Mick!!!!... Have a good one Bro," while tributes also came in from Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, Martin K

Top 10 Mick Jagger Rolling Stones Songs

by Michael Gallucci

 

As the Rolling Stones‘ frontman for the past 50 years, Mick Jagger has had the opportunity to show off many different sides. There was the skinny white bluesman in the first part of the ’60s, the swaggering devil of the later part of the decade, the preening rock star he portrayed throughout most of the ’70s, the disco cat of the late ’70s and the rock ‘n’ roll survivor he’s played for the past 30 or so years. He’s rock’s most famous frontman/singer, a role he still cherishes and defends every time he’s onstage. The Stones have always been greater than the sum of their parts, but it’s the individual components that keep them moving. Our list of the Top 10 Mick Jagger Rolling Stones Songs showcases the man who just might be their most important ingredient.

10

'Time Is on My Side'

From: '12 X 5' (1964)

 

 

Unlike the other cuts on our list of the Top 10 Mick Jagger Rolling Stones Songs, the singer didn't have a hand in writing 'Time Is on My Side.' None of the Stones did. The band's first Top 10 U.S. hit was recorded by R&B singer Irma Thomas earlier the same year; they were undoubtedly influenced by her version, especially Jagger, who checks in with his first truly great vocal, nailing the soulful edge infused with a side of gospel.

Hear 'Time Is on My Side'

 

 

9

'Midnight Rambler'

From: 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' (1970)

 

 

The studio version of 'Midnight Rambler' (from 1969's 'Let It Bleed') falls in place with the rest of the album's bluesy doom. But the song takes on an even more menacing tone during the concert version found on the Stones' best live album, 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' The band drags out the song to almost 10 minutes on 'Ya-Ya's,' and Jagger crawls into the cut's dirtiest corners, writhing his way to some sort of release by song's end. It's the closest he ever got to channeling the troubled spirits of the legendary bluesmen he worshiped.

Hear 'Midnight Rambler'

 

 

8

'Let's Spend the Night Together'

From: 'Between the Buttons' (1967)

 

 

The Rolling Stones were just revving up to their most creative period when they recorded this single (originally the B-side of the No. 1 'Ruby Tuesday') in late 1966. The Stones were beginning to find their own voice, and Jagger, particularly, stopped copying American blues and R&B singers and started working within the natural tone of his vocals. 'Let's Spend the Night Together' drips with sexy urgency.

Hear 'Let's Spend the Night Together'

 

 

7

'Fool to Cry'

From: 'Black and Blue' (1976)

 

 

We don't have many nice things to say about 'Black and Blue,' the lazy 1976 album the Stones recorded between 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll' and 'Some Girls.' But this plaintive ballad (and Top 10 hit, a testament to the band's strong but sagging chart prowess at the time) features one of Jagger's most emotionally stirring and powering performances. For years he tried to ace the sweet, simmering soul of American R&B artists. On 'Fool to Cry' he nearly got there.

Hear 'Fool to Cry'

 

 

6

'Tumbling Dice'

From: 'Exile on Main St.' (1972)

 

 

The Stones' classic 'Exile on Main St.' album was famously made in a drug-fueled haze that brought the finished recordings down to a sludgy, murky crawl. It's absolutely brilliant at times, even if the details are hard to pick out. We love Jagger's performance throughout the LP, but he's at his most swaggering on the album's hit single, 'Tumbling Dice.' You may not be able to hear it clearly, but the band's confidence overflows here.

Hear 'Tumbling Dice'

 

 

5

'Start Me Up'

From: 'Tattoo You' (1981)

 

 

As they were heading into the '80s, the Stones had very little left to prove. Which is why so many of their records from the past 30 years are so lazy and boring. But 1981's 'Tattoo You,' their last truly great album, features some of the band's best songs. Many were pulled together from mid-'70s sessions, when Jagger wore his rock-star crown with one eye on the competition. He sings 'Start Me Up,' the LP's best song, with defensive authority.

Hear 'Start Me Up'

 

 

4

'Miss You'

From: 'Some Girls' (1978)

 

 

After a few years of creative and personal missteps, sluggish albums and dwindling inspiration, the Stones took a more defensive path to their music (also see No. 5 on our list of the Top 10 Mick Jagger Rolling Stones Songs). 'Some Girls' was a counter blow to both punk and disco, which were cutting into the band's profits and influence. On 'Miss You,' the album's hit single, Jagger strikes a disco pose like a natural, checking in with one of his all-time best performances.

Hear 'Miss You'

 

 

3

'Jumpin' Jack Flash'

From: 1968 single

 

 

Keith Richards' stinging riff drives 'Jumpin' Jack Flash,' but it's Jagger's strutting vocal that steers it. Following a brief trip into paisley-colored pyschedelia, the band charged back hard in 1968, sparking a creative burst that hasn't been matched by anyone since. 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' kicks off this fertile period, with Jagger renewed and ready for a fight.

Hear 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'

 

 

2

'Gimme Shelter'

From: 'Let It Bleed' (1969)

 

 

All of the elements come together on 'Gimme Shelter,' the anchor and lead track to one of the Stones' greatest albums: the ghostly intro riff, the thundering kick of the song's main melody, Merry Clayton's storming backing vocals. And then there's Jagger's deceiving indifference to the impending apocalypse. At first he sings with a reporter's objective sway, eventually turning hostile before resigning to his fate. Brilliant.

Hear 'Gimme Shelter'

 

 

1

'Sympathy for the Devil'

From: 'Beggars Banquet' (1968)

 

 

Stemming from the same sessions that yielded 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' (see No. 3 on our list of the Top 10 Mick Jagger Rolling Stones Songs), 'Beggars Banquet' marks the band's most inspired, and inspiring, era. The album is filled with some of rock's most blazing moments -- none as dramatic or as menacing as the LP opener, 'Sympathy for the Devil.' The music builds over a sinister rhythm, and Jimmy Miller's production boils with anticipation. But it's Jagger who keeps it all burning. He sings like a man possessed.

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Mick Jagger Still Rocking As He Rolls Into His 70s: What A Career.

by Lauren James

The Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger has finally hit 70 but there's plenty of life in the old stone yet.

Friday 26th July 2013: 70 years of planetary life for the illustrious Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger as he celebrates becoming a septuagenarian. After an energetic Glastonbury performance back in June and a whole host of rock 'n' roll activities - not least dinner with Nick Clegg - hitting the headlines, The Stones have shown that they can still capture the interest of the media and convert a tonne more young fans for themselves despite having formed 51 years ago in 1962.

After Glastonbury there was no time to sit down, hang up the bandanas and nestle into a future filled with colostomy bags and porcelain dentures. Instead, the band looked forward to two more mega headline sets in London's Hyde Park on 6th and 13th July to mark the close of their 50th anniversary tour and record some live tracks.
Now is it time to rest? No siree: in response to NME's question whether they'd like to play Hyde Park again, Jagger looked to the future: "Not this year. I haven't given it any thought and nor has it been offered. But I'd love to do it. It's a great gig. I did enjoy it. It was beautiful. It turned out to be so wonderful with the sun going down behind the park. It was a perfect London evening."

Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts have certainly led fascinating lives after rising up as the original rock stars in the mid-sixties height of fame, honing their anti-establishment image with drug arrests, sexually charged on stage antics and anarchist demonstrations against the Vietnam War outside London's US Embassy.
Now able to boast an extensive library as a 69 year-old, Richards admitted to having snorted his dad's ashes mixed with cocaine, whilst Wood has been in and out of rehab and drummer Watts battled with alcohol and drug addiction but after a recent throat cancer scare he focusses on breeding horses.
With such an array of colourful lives plus 24 studio and 11 live albums, you'd expect an official biographical account of The Rolling Stones' career but Mick Jagger isn't interested in penning an autobiography any time soon.

Instead, the band will continue to stay in their exotic yurts, dine with prime minister, perform headline appearances left, right and centre, and see locks of Jagger's hair sell for £4,000. Because what's the point in writing an autobiography when you're still making history?

  Mick Jagger: 'I'd love to play Hyde Park again'...

Frontman says the Rolling Stones' gigs there earlier this month were not a time for reflection

The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger says that he would love to play Hyde Park again.

The band played two headline gigs in the London park earlier this month (July 6 and 13) to mark the close of their 50th anniversary tour. This week, they announced details of a live album recorded during the shows, which is available now on iTunes.

Speaking to NME about the gigs, Jagger says they were not a time to think back to the last time the band played there in 1969 at a huge, free concert shortly after the death of their bandmate Brian Jones. Jagger famously wore white and read from Shelley’s poem Adonaïs, and hundreds of white butterflies were released in Jones' memory. Comparing the 2013 date to 1969, he says: "Well the stage was less crowded. The funny thing is when you see the '69 one it's all your mates onstage sitting down. But this time I saw some of my kids sitting on the side of stage. It's like chalk and cheese really."

He added: "It's in the same place so it's very memorable but when you get out there you don’t really think about it. When you're there and you're getting ready, you take that in. But once you get out there, it's a gig, so you can't be thinking, 'Oh this is where we were last time,' or, 'That's the Post Office tower'. If you do that, you just blow everything. You can't think about reflections or where you are. The only thing you can do is concentrate on your performance."

When asked if he would play Hyde Park again, Jagger replied: "Not this year… I haven't given it any thought and nor has it been offered. But I’d love to do it. It's a great gig. I did enjoy it. It was beautiful… It turned out to be so wonderful with the sun going down behind the park. It was a perfect London evening."

'The Rolling Stones - Hyde Park Live' tracklisting is:

'Start Me Up'
'It’s Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It)'
'Tumbling Dice'
'Emotional Rescue'
'Street Fighting Man'
'Ruby Tuesday'
'Doom And Gloom'
'Paint, It Black'
'Honky Tonk Women'
'You Got The Silver'
'Before They Make Me Run'
'Miss You'
'Midnight Rambler'
'Gimme Shelter'
'Jumpin' Jack Flash'
'Sympathy For The Devil'
'Brown Sugar'
'You Can't Always Get What You Want'
'(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'

HAPPY DAY MICK.!

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Mick Jagger Biography

Sir Michael Phillip Jagger (better known as 'Mick Jagger', born 26.7.1943)
Mick Jagger is an English rock singer who rose to fame in the 1960s as frontman of The Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger: Childhood
Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent. His father, Basil Fanshawe Jagger, was a teacher and his mother, Eva Ensley Jagger was an active member of the Conservative Party.
Mick was a successful scholar and passed three A-levels at Dartford Grammar School and won a scholarship to London School of Economics, though he did not graduate from the college.
Jagger loved to sing as a child and sang in the church choir. Aged 19, Jagger began to perform as a singer at a London club, The Firehouse. Sharing a love of rhythm and blues music, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards moved into a Chelsea flat together with Brian Jones, where The Rolling Stones was conceived.
Mick Jagger: Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones performed their first gig as a three-piece at the Marquee Club in London. They later added drummer Charlie Watts to the lineup and recruited Andrew Loog Oldham as their manager.
The band relied on cover songs for their early chart success but Jagger and Richards soon found their feet writing their own compositions, and one of their early numbers, ''Satisfaction', was their first international hit. They were portrayed by the music press as a gang of rugged troublemakers: a far cry from the clean-cut image of The Beatles.
In 1967, Jagger was arrested and sentenced to three months imprisonment for possession of four pep pills that he had bought in Italy. The sentence was eventually reduced but this would not be Jagger's last run-in with the police.
Jagger now controls the band's business affairs, along with his friend Rupert Löwenstein. The band continues to perform, decades after their formation and Jagger continues to court controversy. On their 2005 album, A Bigger Bang, the singer openly attacks George W. Bush on the song 'Sweet Neo Con'.
The Rolling Stones were reported to have earned a combined $437 million on their A Bigger Bang tour of 2007 and they were listed in that year's Guiness World Records book for the achievement. Jagger's own fortune is estimated to be worth around £215 million.
Mick Jagger: Film career
Jagger's most famous film appearance is probably in Nicolas Roeg's 1968 film Performance. In 1970 he also appeared as a bushranger in Ned Kelly. In 1969, Jagger improvised the soundtrack to Kenneth Anger's Invocation of my Demon Brother on a Moog synthesizer. In 1978, Jagger was cast in the Rutles film, All You Need Is Cash, a take on The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love.' Later on, he gained a reputation for playing the heavy, in films such as Freejack (1992), Bent (1997) and the Man From Elysian Fields (2002)
Jagger formed his own film company in 1995, entitled Jagged Films. Its first release was Enigma in 2001, followed by a documentary about Jagger, entitled Being Mick, the release of which coincided with the release of Goddess in the Doorway.
In 2008, Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary, Shine A Light was screened in Berlin. The film features footage of the band on their A Bigger Bang tour.
Mick Jagger: Personal Life
Mick Jagger has had a number of high-profile relationships. His six-year relationship with singer Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s was widely publicized. In 1971, Jagger married Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías. They were divorced in 1980, when Bianca discovered Jagger's infidelity with Jerry Hall. Hall and Jagger lived together for a long time and had several children together. They eventually married in 1990, in a Hindu beach ceremony. This marriage was annulled in 1999 when Jerry had discovered that Jagger had fathered a child with Luciana Gimenez, during the time that he was married to her. Mick has also been linked to Chrissie Shrimpton, Bebe Buell and Carla Bruni. In total, Mick Jagger has fathered seven children, to four different women. He has three grandchildren.
In 2008, a story emerged that the Hell's Angels had plotted to kill Mick Jagger in 1969, when he refused to use them as a security service at the Altamont Free Concert.
In December 2003, Mick Jagger was awarded with a knighthood for his services to music. Some fans were disappointed that Jagger accepted the honour, arguing that it contradicted his anti-establishment views.

Are The Rolling Stones Boycotting Florida and Its 'Stand Your Ground' Law?

by Jack de Aguilar

No one in the Stone's camp knows anything about it.

The list of artists supposedly boycotting Florida because of the controversial Stand Your Ground law reads like a who’s who of modern music. Usher, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Kanye West, Rihanna, R. Kelly, Wale, Jay Z, and the Rolling Stones are all on it, but are the latter really in the boycott club?
A spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones, she said she was "not aware of this," according to Mother Jones, who contacted her, and actually broke the news to her. Representatives for the band in the UK added: "nobody's heard anything about this,” which suggests the band really aren’t involved in Stevie Wonder’s campaign against the Stand Your Ground Law, which is thought to have been a key factor in George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case.

There are further reasons to disregard the above list; Alicia Keys is mentioned, but again, she’s not involved in it. “We question the validity of this list since Alicia's name along with many others has appeared erroneously,” said a representative of the singer’s.

The Rolling Stones are a busy bunch; having played their first show at Glastonbury recently – record crowds saw them play the Pyramid stage – they’ve just released parts of their last two shows at London’s Hyde Park.
The 19-song album features songs from the shows, which fans paid between £100 and £300 to see. The band were wary of letting fans at home see their Glasto performance on television, so the fans who paid for tickets got a real exclusive experience – so the decision to release the Hyde Park album has come under scrutiny.

Rolling Stones' Hyde Park concert highlights on iTunes for a limited time

• By: Carla Hay

Highlights from Rolling Stones' two concerts at London's Hyde Park in 2013 will be available on iTunes for a limited time, from July 22 to Aug. 19, 2013. As previously reported, the Rolling Stones performed at Hyde Park on July 6 and July 13, 2013. The concerts sold out the same day they went on sale and got mostly positive reviews.

Here is the announcement from the official Rolling Stones' website about the Hyde Park concerts on iTunes

The Rolling: Stones today announce the exclusive iTunes release of The Rolling Stones – Live In Hyde Park, which will be available for just four weeks from 22 July, following their two successful sold out concerts in London’s Hyde Park on 6th and 13th July.
Highlights of both Rolling Stones concerts, which took place almost 44 years to the day since the Stones first played Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, will be offered as a digital download from iTunes.com/TheRollingStones from 22nd July-19th August, ensuring that concert-goers, and fans new and old, can re-live their memories and experiences of these historic hometown shows.
The two Hyde Park concerts saw Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood do what they do best: performing foot-stomping, crowd-pleasing sets packed full with hit singles and anthems including ‘Brown Sugar’, ‘It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll’, ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’, ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ and ‘Paint It Black’, all of which feature on the limited edition iTunes release.
The Rolling Stones ‘Live in Hyde Park’ is out now on iTunes
TRACKLISTING
Start Me Up
It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll
Tumbling Dice
Emotional Rescue
Street Fighting Man
Ruby Tuesday
Doom and Gloom
Paint It Black
Honky Tonk Women
You Got the Silver
Before They Make Me Run
Miss You
Midnight Rambler
Gimme Shelter
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Sympathy for the Devil
Brown Sugar
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

 Georgia May Jagger Targeted By Online Bullies

by WENN | 

Mick Jagger's daughter Georgia May has been targeted by online bullies over her looks.
The 21 year old is carving out a successful career as a top model, following in the footsteps of her mother Jerry Hall, but despite fronting promotional campaigns for major brands, she is regularly targeted with vile abuse on Twitter.com.
She tells the London Evening Standard, "I think that it's really f**ked up, personally, but you've just got to ignore it. People have got to be pretty bored and unhappy to be going around on other people's pages. And that goes for everyone, not just famous people.
"You've just got to keep your head up and think, 'You know, what? I'm not going to bother with that. I'm not going to lower myself to the level of arguing with that'.
"They'll say things like, 'Buck-toothed whore' or whatever. They will say, 'Get braces', but it's not as if I haven't heard that one before. I'd be miserable if I had braces right now - what would I do? I'd have to cancel all my modelling jobs! It would be terrible.
"There are lots of other nice young girls defending me, but I personally think it's a kind of bullying. I put myself in the public eye, but I don't let it affect me."

Georgia May Jagger -cornrow fashion faux-pas

by Bang Showbiz

Georgia May Jagger has confessed her most embarrassing summer style mistake was getting cornrows on holiday.

Georgia May Jagger says getting cornrows was her worst ever fashion crime.
The 21-year-old model's biggest ever summer style regret is getting her hair braided during an exotic holiday, only to realise she looked ridiculous when she arrived back in the UK, especially as the look was teamed with a nasty sunburn.
She told The Telegraph newspaper: ''I got cornrows; I got beads and little foil tips... I did the full thing! That, and getting so burnt I looked really English, when I came home it was all peeling off.''
The blonde - whose father is Sir Mick Jagger - prefers to keep things simple when dressing for the hot weather and usually just throws on a pair of denim shorts.
Quizzed about her go-to summer outfit, Georgia said: ''Shorts, earlier today I was wearing Hudson jean shorts and a shirt, that pretty much keeps me cool.''
The pale-skinned star is wary about protecting her skin after her holiday faux-pas, so never leaves the house without suncream and keeps her make-up to a minimal.
Discussing her beauty ritual, she said: ''Suncream, and usually I'll use like a tinted moisturiser or a BB cream with suncream in it. And then just lip balm and I like a rosewater spray for when it's really hot, it's what I've been getting into.''

Rolling Stones Release ‘Hyde Park Live’ Album

by Michael Gallucci 

 

iTunes

A little more than a week after the Rolling Stones wrapped up a pair of weekend concerts at Hyde Park, an album documenting the events is now available on iTunes.
‘Hyde Park Live’ gathers 19 songs that were performed on July 6 and 13 at the London venue. The set spans everything from early classics like ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ to the recent ‘Doom and Gloom.’ The album’s full track list is below.
The two shows marked, almost to the day, the 44th anniversary of the band’s legendary gig at Hyde Park in 1969. That historical ’60s concert was their first with Mick Taylor as part of the lineup. Brian Jones, who was no longer in the group, had died only two days before.
The Stones’ return to Hyde Park was a nostalgic one. The band even redecorated the set to resemble the original tree-lined stage from 1969.
The two recent shows are among the last the band is performing on its 50 and Counting tour, which featured tons of guest stars throughout its recent North American leg.
Rolling Stones’ ‘Hyde Park Live’ Track List
‘Start Me Up’
‘It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll’
‘Tumbling Dice’
‘Emotional Rescue’
‘Street Fighting Man’
‘Ruby Tuesday’
‘Doom and Gloom’
‘Paint It Black’
‘Honky Tonk Women’
‘You Got the Silver’
‘Before They Make Me Run’
‘Miss You’
‘Midnight Rambler’
‘Gimme Shelter’
‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’
‘Sympathy for the Devil’
‘Brown Sugar’
‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’
‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisf

Remembering Ian ‘Stu’ Stewart: The Forgotten Rolling Stone

by Dave Lifton

 

Michael Putland, Getty Images

He was one of the most important figures in their early days, and yet he’s often overlooked in most discussions about the Rolling Stones. Known as the “Sixth Stone,” Ian Stewart served double duty for the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band as both their piano player and their road manager.

Born on July 18, 1938, “Stu,” like so many other British kids, fell in love with American jazz and blues and took up both piano and banjo. In May 1962, he answered an ad placed by Brian Jones looking for musicians, and was soon joined by the other future members of the Stones. But when Andrew Loog Oldham began managing the band, he fired Stu because his looks didn’t fit the rebellious image he was chasing for the Stones. Instead, he asked Stewart, who was a few years older and more disciplined than the others, to be the road manager.
“I’m still working for him,” Keith Richards wrote In his autobiography, ‘Life.’ “To me the Rolling Stones is his band. Without his knowledge and organization, without the leap he made from where he was coming from, to take a chance on playing with a bunch of kids, we’d be nowhere.”
Even though he was no longer a performing member of the band he affectionately referred to as his “little three-chord wonders,” Stu still wound up on every Stones album made in his lifetime, with the exception of ‘Beggars Banquet’ and ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request.’ His playing can be heard on such tracks as ‘Time Is on My Side,’ ‘Honky Tonk Women,’ ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll,’ and he frequently joined the group onstage from 1969 to 1982. He also played on Led Zeppelin‘s ‘Rock and Roll’ and ‘Boogie With Stu,’ which was named in his honor.
Despite eschewing many aspects of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, Stewart died young, suffering a fatal heart attack on Dec. 12, 1985, at the age of 47. So important was Stu’s contribution to the band that, in 1989, they insisted that he be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with them.

PARTY TIME.!! Sir Mick Jagger's 70th birthday party at Loulou's nightclub - Departures - london, United Kingdom - Saturday 13th July 2013