Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones To Release New Film Crossfire Hurricane

The Rolling Stones are to release a new documentary film called 'Crossfire Hurricane', which will feature never-before-seen footage of key moments in the group's career right from the early 1960s to the present day.
The Rolling Stones are to release a new documentary film called 'Crossfire Hurricane'.
The 'Paint it Black' group's incredible adventures from key periods in their career will be shown in the movie right from the early 1960s when they were blues-obsessed teenagers to the release of 1972's seminal 'Exile On Main Street' and up to the present day.
Band members Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood will provide commentaries throughout the film - which will receive a theatrical release in selected cinemas around the UK in October - as will former Stones Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman, who was in the band from 1962 to 1993.
Director Brett Morgen insists the movie - which also documents the Redlands drug bust and the descent of Brian Jones into what Richards describes as ''bye-bye land'' - will take the audience on a ''visual rollercoaster ride'' through the main parts of the band's career.
He said: '''Crossfire Hurricane' invites the audience to experience firsthand the Stones' nearly mythical Journey from Outsiders to rock and roll royalty. This is not an academic history lesson.
'''Crossfire Hurricane' allows the viewer to experience the Stones' Journey from a unique vantage point. It's an aural and visual rollercoaster ride.''
The movie features never-before-seen footage of the group as well as fresh insights from the band members themselves.
In one early interview shown in the film, Mick is asked what sets the group apart from others and he replies: ''A chemical reaction seems to have happened.''
Keith adds: ''You can't really stop the Rolling Stones, you know when that sort of avalanche is facing you, you just get out of the way.''
'Crossfire Hurricane' will be released in November.

Ronnie Wood - Ronnie Wood Struggling To Quit Smoking

Ronnie Wood Struggling To Quit Smoking

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is struggling to give up smoking despite promising girlfriend Sally Humphreys he would ditch his nicotine habit.
Ronnie Wood is struggling to give up smoking.
The Rolling Stones guitarist - who has battled with drink and drug addiction in the past - had promised girlfriend Sally Humphreys he would ditch his nicotine habit but he is finding it hard.
A source said: ''Ronnie has really tried to knock smoking on the head but it's one sacrifice too far. He told Sally he was going to give it his best shot but it just wasn't too be. He's done amazingly well removing alcohol and DRUGS from his life and cigarettes are the only vice he has left.''
Ronnie, 65, announced last November he was trying to give up the potentially-fatal habit but admitted it was a very tough thing to do.
He said: ''The cigarettes are the hardest ones to crack but I mean to do that this month.''
Ronnie - who began dating producer Sally earlier this year - has been pictured out several times smoking electronic cigarettes in a bid to conquer his habit although has also been spotted inhaling the real thing.

Rolling Stones Reportedly Set to Play Four Shows in 2012

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The Rolling Stones‘ Mick Jagger hinted earlier this year that “autumn” would be the next time he thought we’d see the band onstage. It now looks as though that prediction is pretty spot on, as Billboard reports that the band are in the process of lining up four performances later this year.
A source tells the magazine that Sir Richard Branson and Australian promoter Paul Dainty are backing the four shows, which will take place this November. Two of the shows will take place at London’s O2 Arena, while the other two are heading across the pond to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Though the band are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, the talk about a tour has been a touchy one with each of the members at time chiming in with differing stories. Earlier this year the group stated that they wouldn’t go on tour, but then they started having a few rehearsals in the studio. By July, Keith Richards hinted that there might be some live shows coming. He explained, “We’ve got together and it feels so good. There’s things in the works. I think it’s definitely happening. But when? I can’t say yet.”
Michael Cohl, who produced the band’s tours from 1989 through the present, told Billboard back in late June that he hadn’t received any info on the band’s upcoming tour plans.

'Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rock'N'Roll' photo book focuses mainly on 1960s

This review is part of a series of reviews of Rolling Stones books that have a 50th anniversary theme.
Life magazine has had a long history of going through several incarnations. It was published as a humor/general interest magazine from 1883 to 1936; as a weekly photo-driven magazine from 1936 to 1972; as an intermittent special until 1978; as a monthly from 1978 to 2000; as a magazine supplement from 2004 to 2007; as a website (Life.com) partnered with Getty Images from 2009 to January 2012; and, as of January 2012, as a photo channel on sister website Time.com.
Those are a lot of photo archives.
And that's why it's disappointing that the photo book "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rock'N'Roll" (compiled and written by editors of Life), which is supposed to be what the title describes, is instead a collection of photos that primarily focus on just one decade. The book has 144 pages, and more than 100 of those pages are of the Rolling Stones in the 1960s. And the book ends at 2006, so it leaves out the band's public appearances for the 2008 concert documentary "Shine a Light" and the 2010 reissue of "Exile on Main Street."
As for the text, the book doesn't take great pains to present a chronological history of the Rolling Stones in tidy little chronological chapters. Instead, much of the band's history is the told in the hodgepodge of captions that accompany the photos.
There are some side chapters focusing on the individual band members or close associates who aren't Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. Ian Stewart fans will be glad to know that his individual chapter has the most pages.
Here is a list of the side chapters in the book:
"Who Was Ian Stewart?" - 9 pages
"Who Was Brian Jones?" - 6 pages
"Who Is Andrew Loog Oldham?" - 6 pages
"Who Is Mick Taylor?" - 4 pages
"Who Is Ronnie Wood?" - 4 pages
"Stones Alone" (about band members' solo projects) - 4 pages
Despite leaning too heavily on 1960s photos, "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rock'N'Roll" does make an attempt to present the band as more than just a touring act. Photos of the band members' personal lives are included, such as family pictures and Keith Richards' wedding to Patti Hansen.
However, as a comprehensive retrospective, "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rock'N'Roll" misses the mark by leaving out too much of the Rolling Stones' history that took place after the 1960s

'Rolling Stones: Views from the Inside, Views from the Outside - 50 Years Pt. 1'

This review is part of a series of reviews of Rolling Stones books that have a 50th anniversary theme.
This is book is available as an eBook only.
"The Rolling Stones: Views from the Inside, Views from the Outside - 50 Years, Part 1" by Hanspeter Künzler is one of the more unusual Rolling Stones "50th anniversary" books that you're going to find because it is essentially an archive compilation of newspaper articles about the Rolling Stones. Since it's an eBook, it can accommodate a lot more pages than a regular binded book. This particular eBook has more than 2,000 pages.
"The Rolling Stones: Views from the Inside, Views from the Outside - 50 Years, Part 1" covers the years 1962 to 1986. "Rolling Stones: Views from the Inside, Views from the Outside - 50 Years, Part 2" is due out sometime in the autumn of 2012, according to the publisher. So that second volume will presumably cover the years 1987 to 2012.
Here is the publisher's description of how the book was compiled:

"After various British publishing houses have opened their archives for The eBook People, they collected old articles, interviews, audio files and images on the Rolling Stones. The articles then were selected, digitalised and transcribed. That way many of the articles are now digitally accessible for the audience for the first time. All of that was put together in a two-part ebook. Part One will feature the first 25 years of the band in 25 single chapters. The same goes for the second 25 years in Part Two. The whole project is edited and introduced by music journalist Hanspeter Künzler."

As for "Part 1," each chapter is divided by year. A chapter begins with a brief summary of what the Rolling Stones did that year, followed by the newspaper archives (which are in transcription form), the author's review of any Rolling Stones albums released that year, and then each chapter concludes with what the author believes to be other artists' "considerable albums" that were released that year.
The publications whose archived articles are in this eBook are from the United Kingdom: the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, NME (New Musical Express), the Evening Standard and the Daily Mirror.
The articles include news reports, feature articles with interviews, and reviews of Rolling Stones concerts and albums. Although the articles are typed transcriptions and don't show the original pages from the newspapers, many of the photos that accompanied the original articles are included. (As expected, they're mostly black-and-white photos.) There are also Getty Images photos placed throughout the book to spice up the layout.
The author's reviews of Rolling Stones albums through the years are comprehensive and well-written. There are separate reviews for the Rolling Stones albums that had a U.S. and a U.K. version.
What's great about this eBook is that it doesn't follow the usual formula of the rest of the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary books, because those other books usually consist of a chronological biography with several photos filling up the majority of the pages.
By contrast, most of the pages in this eBook do not have photos, but in return you get a fascinating look at Rolling Stones history, even if that history is presented by a select number of British publications. Many books about the Rolling Stones have quotes from old interviews that are just a tiny fraction of the interviews. In this eBook, you get to read the entire articles.
There are some articles that will really give a history lesson (especially to people who were too young to know or weren't even born at the time) about what was going on in the culture during a particular year. For example, there's an article from 1965 that reports that Tailor and Cutter magazine made an open plea to the Rolling Stones and other male pop stars to not wear as many open-buttoned shirts and to start wearing more ties to "save tie manufacturers from financial disaster." The magazine implored, “With position comes responsibility." It seems hilarious now, but back then it was a serious matter.
And, of course, in addition to being blamed for things like the "demise" of the tie industry, the Rolling Stones in the 1960s were also blamed for influencing people to commit crimes. The derogatory names that prominent members of society such as judges would publicly call the Rolling Stones would not go over well in today's politically correct climate if today's judges ever tried to blame rock stars for crimes committed by people whom the rock stars don't even know.
This eBook has plenty of newspaper interviews with members of the Rolling Stones, but there are also some interviews with wives/significant others of the Rolling Stones, including a rare interview that Shirley Watts did in 1964, shortly after she and Charlie Watts secretly got married.
Granted, there are limitations to what's presented in this eBook. First is the fact that the only publications included are British. Second, it's only a select number of publications (and many of them are British tabloids), no doubt because there are limitations on what the book is licensed to reprint. American publications such as Rolling Stone magazine or the New York Times would not license entire articles for a book like this. Third (and this is not a bad limitation), if you don't like reading long books, then you will have a very hard time reading this entire book.
But many Rolling Stones fans should enjoy this book because it has articles that most Rolling Stones fans have never seen before reading this book. It's likely that the Rolling Stones themselves haven't seen all of these articles, although they may remember what it was like to be in those articles, based on how they were treated by the media and the public in those days. The Stones certainly wouldn't remember everything they said in those interviews. And that in and of itself makes the book an interesting collector's item. And it is very easy to look through everything because the chapters are in chronological order, and the chapter menu is well-organized.
There are some spelling errors in the book, but those are minor flaws if you consider what you are getting for the low price of having all of these articles in one eBook.
"The Rolling Stones: Views from the Inside, Views from the Outside - 50 Years, Part 1" is available for purchase on Amazon and iTunes.
It will be interesting to see what "Part 2" will look like.

Rolling Stones’ Ireland 1965 Concert Film to Premiere at 50th New York Film Festival

What do the New York Film Festival and the Rolling Stones have in common? They’re both turning 50 this year, and the festival has decided to fall in line with everyone else saluting the Stones by announcing the World Premiere of ‘The Rolling Stones Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965′ concert film. The screening will take place Saturday, Sept. 29 at 7PM at the Walter Reade Theatre in New York City. An encore screening will follow at the same theatre Oct. 3 at 8:30PM.
The movie comes from ABKCO Films and has been meticulously restored to showcase the early days of the band. The footage primarily comes from the band’s trip to Ireland in 1965, and provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes diary of life on the road with the band mere weeks after ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ hit No. 1 on the charts. The professionally shot video features the frenzy surrounding the band as they were being mobbed at each stop.
Bits and pieces of the footage have surfaced over the years, but it’s never been seen in full film form until now. Included in the movie are the bands travels by train and cab, the cramped basement dressing rooms, impromptu motel room songwriting sessions, and a few future classics being born on the spot.
The film, originally directed by Peter Whitehead and produced by longtime Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham, is expected to be broadcast nationally, with an announcement coming soon. In addition, ABKCO Films have set Nov. 6 as the commercial release date. Included in the Super Deluxe Box Set packaging will be the director’s cut, the producer’s cut, and the new 2012 version.

Rolling Stones 50th anniversary books': Rolling Stones: 50x20' is like a 'greatest hits' book of Rolling Stones photos...

'Rolling Stones: 50x20' is like a 'greatest hits' book of Rolling Stones photos

"Rolling Stones: 50 x 20," edited by Chris Murray

This review is part of a series of reviews of Rolling Stones books that have a 50th anniversary theme.
Here are the best and worst things about the photo book "Rolling Stones: 50 x 20," edited by Chris Murray. The best thing: It has some of the most famous photos ever of the Rolling Stones. The worst thing: It has some of the most famous photos ever of the Rolling Stones, because the photos are so famous that they're already in many other books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
"Rolling Stones: 50 x 20" is a book celebrating the Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary with a compilation of photos from 20 prominent photographers who have taken iconic photos of the band.
The 20 photographers are Gered Mankowitz, Michael Cooper, Bob Gruen, Ross Halfin, Michael Joseph, Baron Wolman, Gus Coral, Bob Bonis, Mark Seliger, William Coupon, Eric Swayne, Jan Olofsson, Eddie Kramer, Barry Feinstein, Michael Putland, Chris Makos, Mark Weiss, David Fenton, Fernando Aceves and Claude Gassain.
Each photographer gets his own chapter of photographs, and each chapter has the photographer's personal recollections of working with the Rolling Stones. (In cases where the photographer is deceased, someone close to the photographer did the essay instead.) Some of the stories are bland, while others are more interesting and candid.
Putland has one of the best stories, because his first assignment to take photos of the Rolling Stones (in 1972) literally came the morning that he was clearing out his studio because he couldn't find work as a photographer and he was going to quit. Putland says of working with the band: "Obviously Mick [Jagger] and Keith [Richards] were fantastic to shoot. In all my contacts with Mick, in those days I found him a bit intimidating, although he's a very fair, terrific guy. Keith in those days was a little distant but he's always been great. And Bill [Wyman] -- he'll kill me for saying this -- maybe he wasn't the most photogenic, but he had a booty sort of look. He was the one who got all the girls anyway."
As for the photos in the book, the majority are from the 1960s and 1970s, when photographers had more access to the Rolling Stones. And as you look through this book, you can see how the band became less accessible through the decades. The photos from the 1980s and 1990s are mostly posed portrait sessions or concert photos instead of candid behind-the-scenes pictures. As for the 21st century years, this book has 144 pages, and literally less than 10 of those pages have Rolling Stones photos from the 21st century, and they are forgettable concert photos from 2002 and 2005. (No offense to the photographer, because he probably had a lot of limitations put on him over what kinds of photos he could take, when he could take them, and which ones could be released to the public.)
Let's put it this way: Would the Mick Jagger of today allow a professional photographer to take a picture of him napping in a hotel room, like Jagger did in one of the 1964 photos in this book? Hell no. It's no wonder that the best photos in this book are from the 1960s and 1970s.
If you're an avid Rolling Stones fan who is flipping through this book, you can almost hear yourself saying, "Oh, look, there's that that blurry outtake picture from the 'Between the Buttons' photo session. And hey, there's that 1968 photo of a crouching Keith Richards putting something up his nose at Joshua Tree. And wow, I don't know how many times I've seen that 1978 photo of Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh sitting together with big smiles on their faces. And oh yeah, there are those portraits of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that Rolling Stone magazine had in the 1990s."
You get the picture.
Essentially, this book is like a "greatest hits" of Rolling Stones photos. If you're a huge fan who collects Rolling Stones books, then you probably already have most these photos in other books. But, just like a greatest hits collection, there might be something previously unreleased that will entice you to buy it. The stories from the photographers could be that enticement. Just know in advance that when it comes to the photos in this book, what you're going to get is mostly great but mostly familiar.

Rolling Stones Begin Recording in Paris

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The Rolling Stones have begun recording music — presumably new music — to mark their 50th anniversary. Mick Jagger tweeted a photo on Thursday of him sitting on a drum stool, holding a telecaster in front of a few racks of guitars and amplifiers. The band was also photographed entering or leaving a recording studio in Paris two days earlier. 
“Had fun in the Paris studio this week,” Jagger tweeted. The band has been meeting throughout the spring and summer to discuss their future. In April Keith Richards told Rolling Stone the band rehearsed much of their catalog in anticipation of a later tour.
“We’re just getting our chops together. It was like playing in the garage, a maintenance check, you know?” he said. Last month he told the BBC the band was indeed rehearsing for a tour. Shortly after Jagger hinted that the band were aiming for something in the fall, although it’s not clear drummer Charlie Watts is on board for that much fun.
Two weeks ago the Rolling Stones revealed an app on their website. The photo shows two dark eyes blinking while the band plays ‘Start Me Up.’ So far, ‘UView’ left fans with more questions than answers however.

Christopher Andersen's 'Mick' bio retreads Andersen's 'Jagger: Unauthorized'

The problem with writing an unauthorized biography about Mick Jagger or the Rolling Stones is that there isn't much to say or report that hasn't already been said or reported. And in the case of the unauthorized biography "Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger," by Christopher Andersen, much of what is in the book is a repeat of his 1994 book "Jagger: Unauthorized."
But even the updated content of Andersen's "Mick" book that covers Jagger's life after 1994 isn't that new or insightful. Most of the quotes were already in other books or interviews.
"Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger" takes a tabloid approach by focusing more on Jagger's sex life than on presenting a well-rounded view of his other interests. It's clear that the book's main goal is to tell as many salacious stories as possible about how Jagger seduced many of his conquests, rather than to include a more balanced perspective by having about the same number of pages describing Jagger's creative process as one of the most celebrated songwriters in rock history or his business acumen in masterminding some of the most lucrative concert tours ever.
It's not really shocking anymore to say in a book that Jagger has had more than 4,000 sexual partners in his life or that many of his sexual encounters have included spanking his partners. And the story about Jagger having a sexual affair with David Bowie was reported in the media back in the '80s. And who doesn't know that Jagger has a problem with being monogamous? Because even if he didn't say it in interviews over the years (and he has), his well-documented actions would make it obvious.
Will anybody really be surprised to find out that Jagger's conquests include his sex therapist and at least one nanny who was hired to take care of his son Gabriel? No. Will anyone really care that in 1999, Jagger went to a party with Angelina Jolie but left with Farrah Fawcett? No. And is it newsworthy to point out that Jagger prefers being with women who are young enough to be his daughter? No.
Don't expect any riveting interviews or a lot of interesting, new anecdotes about Jagger in this book. And the things that Andersen does dig up are really trivial footnotes in Jagger's life that Andersen blows up to be a bigger deal than they really are, such as the claim that Jolie's mother was so star-stuck by Jagger that she encouraged Jolie to have an affair with him. (As if she was the only mother in the world who would act this way.) Andersen obviously did not have access to a lot of people who are currently close to Jagger because the description of Jagger's life in the 1990s onward reads like someone Googled a bunch of articles about Jagger and the Rolling Stones, and then compiled parts of those articles into a book format.
Even the accuracy of this book is suspect: A few of the sources whom Andersen interviewed for this book have now come forward to say that they were misquoted. And there's a childhood photo of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts that is misidentified as a photo of Jagger.
The book goes off on a slightly bizarre tangent toward the end, by describing the courtship of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, who is one of Jagger's ex-lovers. It's as if the book should have really been titled "Mick Jagger's Six Degrees of Sexual Separation." If you want to know who else Jagger's famous ex-lovers were sleeping with before, during and/or after they had their relationships with Jagger, then this is the book for you. But if you're looking for a more substantial story of Jagger's life, then look elsewhere.

'Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue' is a quick read of Mick Jagger's life

"Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue" by Mark Spitz is less of an in-depth biography about Rolling Stones lead Mick Jagger and more of an extended essay arguing the theory that Jagger is underrated and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is overrated. It's not a bad premise to form the basis of a book (since there are so many other books about Jagger and the Rolling Stones), but unfortunately, Spitz misses the mark in many ways. The book won't take that long to read, but it might feel longer since so much of it is boring and pretentious.
At a little less than 300 pages (not including the bibliography and index), this book really does not reveal anything new about Jagger.
Instead, the author spends page upon page describing Jagger's life in comparison to Richards' life. That in and of itself is not something that needs to be avoided, but the comparisons get tedious in this book. What makes it worse is that Spitz has an underlying condescending tone in his writing that somewhat lectures the reader about what's "cool" and what "isn't cool." There's nothing worse than people telling others what's cool and what isn't.
Here's an example of this kind of pretentious prattle. This is a sentence from the book in which Spitz describes Mick Jagger's first wife, Bianca, who was married to Mick from 1971 to 1980: "Unlike Marianne [Faithfull] and Anita [Pallenberg], Bianca is still not cool, and therefore never given any credit for her crucial contribution to Mick's building of a '70s Stones model, only the lashing blame for exposing them to toxic celebrity culture."
Was Bianca famous before she got involved with Mick Jagger? No. How exactly did she "crucially contribute" to the band's songwriting, tours and/or business decisions that built the ''70s Stones model"? She didn't. And weren't the Rolling Stones famous for their partying lifestyle and got a lot of tabloid coverage because of that lifestyle, long before Bianca came into their lives? Yes. Enough said.
It's true that most Rolling Stones fans prefer either Jagger or Richards, in terms of their respective personalities. But the reality is that you don't have to be a Rolling Stones fan to know that saying either Jagger or Richards is "better" for the band is like saying either milk or sugar is "better" for ice cream: Both are essential components that make up the whole. Just like you can't have ice cream without milk and sugar, you can't have the Rolling Stones without Jagger and Richards, who are the co-writers of most of the band's songs.
The book loses a lot of credibility early on, in the introduction's description of Mick Jagger and his father, Joe Jagger: "Father and son looked alike, with lean but extremely long musculature, jutting ears, knowing brown eyes, and, most famously, pronounced, fleshy lips, thick and uncommonly rouged."
One might argue the accuracy of describing Joe Jagger's mouth as thick, uncommonly red lips (just look at any photos of Joe Jagger, and "thick, uncommonly red lips" do not immediately come to mind), but there's no arguing over this glaring mistake in the author's statement: Mick Jagger has green eyes, not brown eyes.
Any Mick Jagger biographer who can't even describe the correct color of Mick Jagger's eyes should hang his or her head in shame. It's hard to take any book seriously that can't even get that simple fact straight.

Rolling Stones get fans ready for mysterious announcement (Video)

What's up with the Rolling Stones? According to the group, a mysterious announcement is in the works. They're about to reveal all very soon, but you can get a hint of it now.
Here's what you need to do: Get the free Uview app from the iTunes or Android store, then go to the page on the Stones website that says “Be part of our forthcoming announcement”. Point it at the image on the page, then watch your phone.

View slideshow: Rolling Stones mystery announcement

(Spoiler if you don't have a phone: What happens is the screen starts to move and the opening riff of “Start Me Up” begins to play. Next come the words “Keep Your Eyes Peeled.” See the pictures in the slideshow for screen shots.)
There's no word on what it all means, so for now we'll just have to guess. The Stones have done some unusual things to announce tours and performances. (Remember the blimp and the surprise appearance in Times Square?)

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Slideshow: Rolling Stones mystery announcement

The Rolling Stones in 1965.

Jade Jagger Opens Secret Garden...

Jade Jagger - Jade Jagger Opens Secret Garden

Jade Jagger Opens Secret Garden

Jade Jagger opened her first restaurant, Secret Garden, at Halikarnas nightclub in Turkey this week.
Jade Jagger opened her first restaurant, Secret Garden, in Turkey this week.
The designer has turned her hand to restaurant interiors for the first time with the outdoor eating area, part of recently reopened Halikarnas nightclub - which has just undergone a multi-million pound renovation - in Bodrum.
She said: ''I learnt to cook at a really early age, and good food and great flavours are hugely important to me. My own favourite flavours are quite Asian based especially as I live part of the year in India and I adore fish and seafood and of course love French cooking. The Secret Garden's chef Nicholas Le Toumelin has created a menu that nods to his own French heritage but also reflects the location of the Secret Garden by the sea in Bodrum. I have designed the space so it will appeal to a sophisticated diner.''
Jade first came to Turkey with her parents, The Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger, when she was six-years-old and says it has always been a special place for her.
She added: ''I have always loved this part of Turkey and have many happy memories holidaying here over the years.''
Jade and her new husband, Adrian Fillary, also recently completed their honeymoon with a week cruising along The Coast of the Turkish Riviera.
The opening party at the restaurant and nightclub - owned by businessman Suleyman Demir - saw a performance by dance pop act The Cuban Brothers, followed by a DJ set from the Jade Jagger Jezebel Soundsystem, as well as a number of dance performances from around the world.
Jade added: ''We are aiming to make Halikarnas a 24-hour daytime and night time experience and therefore the idea of a really good restaurant at a nightclub makes perfect sense. Next year we will be developing a day time yacht jetty and beach club as part of Halikarnas.''
Acts performing at Halikarnas this season include Paul Oakenfold, Boy George and David Morales.

Rolling Stones seen at recording studio in Paris; Mick Jagger says he 'had fun'

During the week of August 20, 2012, paparazzi photos surfaced of the Rolling Stones leaving a Paris recording studio, and now Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger has confirmed the studio sessions. The Rolling Stones have not announced why they were in the recording studio.
On August 23, 2012, this message was posted on the Rolling Stones' official Facebook page and Jagger's official Twitter account: "Had fun in the Paris studio this week!" The message had an accompanying photo (pictured here) of Jagger holding a guitar in a room with several guitars, presumably a room in a recording studio.
Fans are speculating why the Rolling Stones were in the studio. Some of the possibilities are:

• recording new songs for a Rolling Stones compilation
• recording new songs for a Rolling Stones album of all-new material
• remastering and/or remixing previously released Rolling Stones songs

Autumn 2012 is expected to be a busy time for Rolling Stones 50th anniversary activities.
As previously reported, Jagger told the London Evening Standard at the "Rolling Stones: 50" exhibit opening party in London on July 12, 2012, that the Rolling Stones will do 50th anniversary concerts in the autumn of 2012. Further details about the concerts are to be announced.
On August 17, 2012, the Rolling Stones' official Facebook page made available for download a uView app for people to download for upcoming "big news."
Since the Rolling Stones have already announced that they will not do a full-scale tour in 2012, there is speculation that there will only be a few Rolling Stones concerts this year that will take place in major international cities. Richards told Rolling Stone magazine in March 2012 interview that it is possible that the Rolling Stones will do a full-scale tour in 2013.
There is also the Rolling Stones' official 50th anniversary documentary film, which is directed by Brett Morgen.
The movie's title and cinema release date are to be announced, but it has already been announced that the film should be in cinemas for a limited time in September 2012, although that target month could change. Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the movie on DVD and Blu-ray in October or November 2012.
HBO will have the U.S. television premiere in the autumn of 2012, on a date to be announced.
In late April/early May 2012, the current members of the Rolling Stones (lead singer Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, drummer Charlie Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood) gathered for rehearsals in the New York City area. The rehearsals were reportedly filmed for the documentary.
In December 2011, Wyman and former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor did jam sessions in London with the current lineup of the Rolling Stones. These sessions will also reportedly be in the Rolling Stones' 50th anniversary movie.

The Stones in Paris.!

All four members of the band are in Paris right now, in a recording Studio names "Studio Guillaume Tell". That of cause is great and good news!
What exactly is going on there is still not quite clear, but the most important fact is, that they all are together in one place and that whatever they are doing there, it obviously has something to do with music. Also there were reportedly Don Was, Darryl Jones and Chuck Leavell. Whether it is rehearsals for upcoming gigs or working on new material or re-checking older songs for another greatest hits compilation is still left to our imagination. Whenver new facts surface, I'll pin them down here, promised.!

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Recalling presentations: Time is Still on Their Side...

When the Rolling Stones strut out onto a stage, the press notices. Reporters take turns playing the historian, recalling the British music explosion of the 60's and the Stones' leading role in that blast. Something about a band with that kind of longevity that both intrigues and impresses. Articles are written, and photos snapped. Much is made of their senior ranking in a fickle business that promotes, perpetuates, and personifies youth. 
But the band's ability to transcend the spectrums of both time and space was evident at the Portland Rose Garden arena on Tuesday, November 1, 2005. The self-proclaimed "world's greatest rock-n-roll band" has produced a massive body of work that still lifts an arena full of fans to their jumping, dancing, stomping feet. And the hoards of parent enjoying the show with their kids clearly illustrated the power of the Stones' music to bridge generations. 
The tight two-hour set included "She's So Cold," "Tumbling Dice," "Brown Sugar," "Sympathy for the Devil," "Miss You," and "Honky Tonk Woman." The very receptive Portland crowd screamed and sang along to favorites from the Rolling Stones catalogue of classics, music that spans four decades. Three songs from the latest album were not as well received, but that could have been because front man Mick Jagger stepped back to let Keith Richards lead the effort. Not the best band decision. While Richards has more than established himself as an iconic guitarist, he lacks the charisma that Jagger effortlessly exudes with every swaggering step. Did Mick study dance? He seems to glide on his toes, and definitely still has the lithe form of a dancer. 
The show hit a peak, for both audience and performers, when Jagger dedicated a cover of "Night time is the Right Time" in memory of the song's composer, Ray Charles. Joined by their 9-piece horn section, the musicians clearly were enjoying this jam as much as their enthusiastic audience was. The horn section wailed and rocked along with the singers- yes, singers. Jagger's ever-strong voice, matched by Lisa Fischer's powerful, soulful vocals, reverberated through the packed arena. 
Sure, since their first show in July of 1962, these guys have aged- they are, after all, only human. But they certainly have both staying power and stamina in a business that is not always loyal to its artists. Maybe the real reason that we are just now checking the age box for rock musicians is that the very history of rock has yet to span the average human lifetime. We are still waiting for that spectrum to come full circle, and the Stones still have time on their side.

Ace Frehley’s Wobbly First Meeting with Keith Richards

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We all have our fantasies about meeting our favorite rockers. They usually involve telling our heroes about how much their music has meant to us and gotten us through hard times. In turn, the rocker is so overwhelmed by the praise and asks us to join the tour as a member of the band’s entourage and you become best buddies forever.
Stop laughing. You all know you’ve had that dream at some point in your life.
However, in reality the meetings are more likely to be anticlimactic, as a handshake, autograph and snapshot are all you’ll have time for before being whisked away by a personal assistant. Sometimes, they don’t even go that well, as Jeremie Ruby-Strauss recently described.
Ruby-Strauss, who has edited several best-selling hard rock memoirs including Motley Crue‘s ‘The Dirt’ and Ace Frehley‘s ‘No Regrets,’ talked about working with Frehley, who told Ruby-Strauss about what happened when the former Kiss guitarist was granted an audience with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
“I’ll never forget our initial meeting,” he told Slushpile. “He told a story of wanting to meet Keith Richards, but neither of them could physically stand up — so they were both propped up by assistants so they could shake hands briefly, before each slumped over.”
If it’s any consolation to the Spaceman, there’s a really good chance Richards doesn’t remember this even happening. Frehley has paid tribute to Richards on wax as well, taking lead vocals on Kiss’ version of the Stones’ ’2000 Man’

The Rolling Stones Tease ‘Big News’ With Newfangled App

The Rolling Stones have promised to reveal “big news” to the world shortly, and apparently they’re going to do it via a new mobile device app named uView.
In a new Twitter post this morning, the band announced that they “have some big news coming up! Get involved by downloading the uView app & point your device at this,” pointing to a picture of what appears to be a pair of animal eyes.” So we did as instructed — pointing our mobile phone at the picture on the computer screen — and our big reward was to see the eyes blinking, along with a text message reading “keep your eyes peeled.”
It’s been common news for some time now that the Stones were rehearsing for what’s expected to be a short tour in celebration of their 50th anniversary. So it’s pretty easy to speculate this announcement could be tied to the location of those performances.
If you look closely, you’ll see darker black rings around the eyes on this image. What’s left of our grade school memories tells us that could make this animal a panda bear, which could mean that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and company are heading to China. Or, they could be Jack Black’s co-stars in the animated film ‘Kung Fu Panda 3.’
Stay tuned!

Keith Richards,Blondie Chaplin, Steve Miller, Billy Gibbons, Slash Tribute Les Paul On New CD...

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Keith Richards, Steve Miller, Billy Gibbons, Slash Tribute Les Paul On New CD

08/16/2012
. Les Paul Trio guitarist Lou Pallo has an assembled an all-star cast of musicians to join him on a special tribute CD/DVD to Les Paul entitled Thank You Les, which will be released on September 11th. Here is the official word:The guest artists include guitarists Keith Richards, Billy F Gibbons, Steve Miller (who also penned the package's liner notes), Jose Feliciano, Slash, Johnny A, Bucky Pizzarelli, Arlen Roth, Nokie Edwards (The Ventures), Frank Vignola, Bob Leive, Tommy Doyle and Jon Paris, as well as singers Eddie Brigati, Jr. (The Young Rascals) Blondie Chaplin (Rolling Stones), Nicki Parrott (Les Paul Trio), Lexie Roth, Melinda Doolittle (finalist on "American Idol" season six) and members of the Les Paul Trio.

The 21 tracks, including many of Paul's personal favorites, were recorded organically on analog tape by Ben Elliott, Chief Engineer at Showplace Recording Studios. Thank You Les will be available as an individual CD and DVD, as well as in a combo package including both discs. The DVD documentary is a full-length, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album, and is loaded with interviews, rare photos, musical performances and bonus features.

The musical thread that runs throughout the CD and the DVD film documentary is the relationship between Les Paul and his long-time friend and rhythm guitarist, New Jersey-based Lou Pallo, who many credit with helping Les Paul revitalize his career as a live performer after they first met in 1963 and soon after began performing together. It was Pallo who stood on stage with Les for his extended run of weekly performances in New York City starting in 1984, first at Fat Tuesday's in Greenwich Village for 10 years, and later at the Iridium on Broadway, which became the "hot ticket" destination for not only thousands of music fans, but also for any musician in town who wanted to tip their hat and worship at "The House that Les Paul Built."
"Les was my guitar idol and I was honored to work beside him and call him my friend for so many years," says Lou Pallo. "This tribute allows Les' musicianship and sense of humor to take center stage giving everyone the opportunity to experience the Les Paul we knew well and the music he adored."
In his loving remembrance of Les Paul in the package's liner notes, guitar great Steve Miller fondly recalls not only Les Paul the musician, but also the family friend (Les was Miller's Godfather) who spent part of his honeymoon with Mary Ford visiting at the Miller family's house in Wisconsin. "Even after becoming one of the most influential musicians and inventors of the 20th century, Les Paul always had time for everyone from Tony Bennett to Johnny Rotten and anyone in between," writes Miller. "He never judged you by how you looked or what kind of music you played, but by your character and your commitment to music. It's a tribute to the kind of human being Les was that he was always willing to share his spotlight with any musician brave enough to come forward to say hello."
"So, this album is a tribute to Les Paul, truly one of the most enjoyable and creative musicians to ever live. He was a modest man who always gave more than anyone I've ever known. It's a heartfelt thank you from just a few of his many friends for his wonderful music, inspiration and friendship."
Plans are in the works to celebrate Thank You Les with a CD/DVD release show in New York City featuring Lou Pallo and special guests. Thank You Les – Partial Recording Credits
1) Avalon – featuring Frank Vignola – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
2) Mr. Day/Tell Me What's the Reason – featuring Steve Miller - guitar and vocal;
Lou Pallo - guitar
3) Caravan – featuring Nokie Edwards – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
4) Tennessee Waltz – featuring Lou Pallo – guitar; Nicki Parrott - bass and vocals
5) September Song – featuring Billy F Gibbons – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
6) It's Been a Long, Long Time – featuring Keith Richards - guitar and vocal; Lou Pallo - guitar and vocal
7) I'm Confessin' That I Love You – featuring Eddie Brigati, Jr. – vocal; Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
8) Mister Sandman – featuring Arlen Roth – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
9) Bésame Mucho – featuring José Feliciano - guitar, vocal, congas, shaker; Lou Pallo - guitar
10) Brazil – featuring Frank Vignola – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
11) Vaya Con Dios – featuring Lexie Roth – vocals; Arlen Roth – guitar; Frank Vignola – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
12) Deep in the Blues – featuring Slash – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
13) Nature Boy – featuring Steve Miller – vocal; Lou Pallo - guitar
14) Memories of You – featuring Tommy Doyle – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
15) Smile – featuring Blondie Chaplin – vocal; Lou Pallo - guitar
16) Carioca – featuring Frank Vignola – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
17) Just One More Chance – featuring Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
18) St. Louis Blues – featuring Jon Paris - vocal, slide guitar, harmonica; Lou Pallo - guitar
19) Sweet Georgia Brown – featuring Johnny A – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
20) Out of Nowhere – featuring Nokie Edwards – guitar; Lou Pallo - guitar
21) Over the Rainbow – featuring Melinda Doolittle – vocal;

Part 6 OF 6: Mick Jagger Remembers...

Mick Jagger Remembers

Of the new bands: Are any of them going to take on the stadium show?
It took us 20 years of doing shows before we actually put on these big stadium concerts. It will be interesting to see if any of these bands today ever do the kind of shows we're doing. I don't think they will, because they don't seem to be that interested in it. You have to be really interested in showbiz to do this; you have to be interested in theater, otherwise there's no point doing it. It's only interesting if you're in control of it. And to be in control of it, you have to initiate it. I wonder if there's anybody that's going to do that.
And there has to be somebody central to it like yourself, who's a great impresario as well.
Yeah, you can't just be playing guitar in the corner. It's never going to work.
That's one of the things that distinguishes you from all the other songwriters, singers and performers: You're a great producer.
Well, you have to laugh at that, don't you? Now the whole ethos is to not be that. Which I understand. But it doesn't lead you to anything theatrical. None of these bands in America have that. The Chili Peppers have a sort of sense of the theatrical, but they can't take it anywhere. It's become a bit cliché, just a guitar thing. Everybody wants to be Neil Young, and Pearl Jam is trying to drive ticket prices down. Doing that, they will never get themselves on a stage this big.
Can you define rock & roll for me? What is it about? Is it about sex, violence, energy, anger?
All those things: energy, anger, angst, enthusiasm, a certain spontaneity. It's very emotional. And it's very traditional. It can't break too many rules. You have certain set rules, certain forms, which are traditionally folk-based, blues-based forms. But they've got to be sung with this youthful energy – or youthful lethargy, because youth has this languorous, lethargic, rebellious side to it as well. So they can be sung as an alternate mode of thrashing, this slightly feminine languor, the boredom of youth as well as the anger, because youth has those two things. To represent those emotions, this form seems to work very well.
Boredom and anger, which are both a form of rebellion.
Yeah, a statement of rebellion. Drawing the line where your generation is.
So the energy, the sexuality, is from this youthful aspect?
Yeah, but the sexuality is very potent and very obvious. There's nothing understated about it. That really comes from black music. The overt sexuality of black music was the precursor of all that.
And the violence?
Well, violence is mostly in the posing aspect of it. There's some in the lyrics, but it's also the attitude, the bad-attitude thing. I mean, it's very violent. Rock & roll in its very early days came with expressions of violence.
There were riots.
Not so much Elvis, but Bill Haley, when he was in Blackboard Jungle, do you remember? "Rock Around the Clock" was featured in this movie Blackboard Jungle. And when it was shown, there were riots everywhere. And rock & roll was associated with violence very early on.
All these things are about youth: sex, violence, energy, boredom, anger. Has your attitude toward rock & roll changed as you've gotten older? Do you still have the same feeling for it?
No.
What has changed?
Well, it's much older. Rock music was a completely new musical form. It hadn't been around for 10 years when we started doing it. So we were playing with something new. I imagine it's a bit like walking into New Orleans after jazz had only been going eight years. I was there at the beginning. And we were going to change it – bring this rhythm & blues thing into it.
And at the beginning you felt like you were one of the chosen few, one of the only ones in the whole world who would get to play with this new toy.
We had evangelical fervor. So it was exciting, and no one knew where it was going, if it was going to last. When it first came out, people thought it was a dance craze like the cha-cha-cha or the calypso. Rock history is full of songs about hoping it would never die. It could have easily passed on.
So I have a very different attitude now. It's 40 years old. I still love performing it, but it's no longer a new, evangelical form. It's still capable of expression, and it's capable of change and novelty. But it's not as exciting for me. It's not a perfect medium for someone my age, given the rebelliousness of the whole thing, the angst and youth of it. In some ways it's foolish to try and re-create that.
Do you ever look back at your career and evaluate what you've done?
I'm afraid of doing that. Either you have this satisfied feeling, or you say, "What a bunch of shit. What a waste of time." You can say, "Well, it's something I should have done for a few years and given up, done something else."
Does that thought cross your mind?
Of course. It would be nice to have another shot. Instead of me being a rock singer, I could have done something else. You hope you've done something right, you've spent an awful long time on it, so you better be bloody right. "Did you waste a lot of time?" Yes, you've wasted a lot of time. "Did you use your intellectual and physical gifts?" Yes and no. Because I don't think rock & roll is as intellectually taxing as other things. It's not particularly challenging. So you get intellectually lazy. I don't think anyone is ever satisfied with what they've done.
Are the Stones the greatest rock band in the world?
It's just a stupid epithet. It just seems too Barnum and Bailey to me – like it's some sort of circus act. The first time we heard it said was to introduce us every night. So I used to say, "Will you please not use that as your announcement? It's so embarrassing. And what does that mean? Does it mean the best, the biggest, the most long-lasting?" You know?
Taking It All Off
What does your new record, "Stripped," tell you about the Stones today?
To me it was never a kind of life-shattering event, this record. We tried to get a twist on a live record 'cause I didn't want to go back and repeat the previous live record. I thought we just had to give something different. We eventually got into it and developed a more intimate record. And we got a few unusual tracks going on, which is always good for a live record – not original songs but reworked. I think "Like a Rolling Stone" was unusual to do. We've never done a Dylan song before.
What appeals to you about that song?
Well, melodically I quite like it. It's very well put together; it's got a proper three sections to it, real good choruses and a good middle bit, and great lyrics. It's a really well-constructed pop song, in my opinion.
Do you like singing Dylan lines?
This is really a good one; it's very much to the point, it doesn't waffle too much. I sang it a lot of times on the European tour – maybe 50 times. So I really got inside it, and I enjoyed it. I love playing the harmonica on it.
What else on this album is unusual?
"Shine a Light," which is a song from Exile. We had never done that before, being something that was just hidden. And I was really surprised when we first did it – that people knew it. The audience starts singing along, and I was like "Uh."
Why would you go back and pick out "The Spider and the Fly"? What is it about that song?
I wasn't really that mad about it, but when you listen to it on record, it still holds up quite interestingly as a blues song. It's a Jimmy Reed blues with British pop-group words, which is an interesting combination: a song somewhat stuck in a time warp.
You said you liked "time-and-place albums," ones that reflect the Stones at a particular period of time.
This is the Stones doing their small shows, doing a much more intimate show.
What does this say to you about the Stones as a band that other records haven't said? What's new about this?
I think it's more relaxed. It's more soft. Most of the album is songs that we were doing on the road that are acoustic songs. It's the Stones as a smaller club band; there's blues and country, and we're showing that side of the Stones rather than the big, huge stadium version.
Is there a version to the Stones that you prefer one to the other – the stadium version vs. this club version?
I like the club version of the band. But this is the quieter moments of the club version without the raucous parts of the club version.
Why did you reject making this part of the MTV Unplugged series?
Because everyone has done it, and I didn't want to particularly come to New York and do Unplugged in the middle of the European tour. And I felt that we would take the best element from Unplugged, the intimate thing of it, without actually doing it completely unplugged.
Do you think it's a little too retro coming off "Voodoo Lounge"?
Any live record would be bound to contain a lot of old material. There's a danger that you would fall into it – as I've said in this interview quite a few times. I don't think there's any virtue in being completely, only contemporary, but I think you do have to balance the two.
The Rolling Stones should do something adventurous for their next album, but I never thought you could, around the time of the tour, do a completely groundbreaking record. It would have been nice, but I don't think that was possible.
When you do your own records, you seem a lot more oriented toward dance music and rhythms.
My tastes are very much dance music of the '70s, which always enjoys a lot of popularity – people will always love it because it's got a lot of different time signatures – but it's not necessarily ground-breaking. On all three solo albums you can hear it. And it's quite obvious that that's what I like to do. And if I do another solo record, I'll probably take that a lot further.
Will you do another solo record?
I don't know when I'm gonna do it. But I'll probably do one. I look forward to it very much.
Tell me why you want to make another solo album.
I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down. But I'm much less tied down than with the Rolling Stones. I can go in any direction that I want. And if I want to go in a traditional direction and play Irish music, I can.
Is it hard coming off tour?
No. I've been really busy since I finished the tour. I haven't really had any break, with all this stuff that we're doing – the record, the CD-ROM and all that. It's the same as being on tour, except that I haven't been doing shows in the evening [Laughs]. I'm doing my day job.
What are you gonna do next?
Take a vacation. Then I'm gonna write some songs, and then I'm gonna work on my movie-development stuff, and then it's Christmas, and then it's the next bit of shows. We're gonna be doing some shows in the Far East and maybe one or two in South America.
In a general sense, what is in the future for the Rolling Stones?
It's a mystery. I don't know what's gonna happen with the Rolling Stones. I mean, one is always very confident about the future. But what's actually gonna happen is a mystery.
Why is it a mystery?
'Cause anything can happen in life and quite frequently does. We don't have set plans. But I dare say the Rolling Stones will do more shows together. But I don't know exactly what framework the next tour in the United States would take, nor do I know what form the next Rolling Stones music will take. But I'm sure there will be Rolling Stones music and there will be Rolling Stones shows.
But the Stones do seem a lot more stable than, say, 10 years ago.
I think the Rolling Stones have always been mostly stable; they've got a terrific history, a long tradition. It's very steeped in all kind of things. The Rolling Stones are a very admired band, much copied and so on. And very flattering – it always is.
How do you feel about rock's staying power now?
I'm kind of surprised by the resurgence of it as a young force.
Why would you be surprised?
Well, because there seemed to be a period when it was rather flat. It could have become dinosaur music. It's still very similar music to the music in the '60s. It's got its own spin on things, but it's still very traditional. Maybe that's what makes the staying power work, because jazz went up such a difficult-to-understand alley when it went into bop; it lost a lot of mass audience. And rock hasn't really done that. I mean, it's kept its popular base by not only going into intellectual areas where it can't be followed by most people.
It stays with the beat.
Stays with that same beat, really. Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently now than they moved 30 years ago, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.
What about your own staying power?
I think it's a question of energy, really. I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.
How's your hearing?
My hearing's all right. But we worry about it because they play far too loud. Sometimes I use earplugs because it gets too loud on my left ear.
Why your left ear?
Because Keith's standing on my left. [Laughter.]
How would you sum up the last 30 years?
Ah. God. You fuck. I'm just not gonna do that one. I'm just totally unable to. I think you just have to end now.