Brian still alive in us... (+ 28th Feb 1942)

 Brian still alive in us... (+ 28th Feb 1942)

 Brian still alive in us... (+ 28th Feb 1942)

The Rolling Stones - 14 ON FIRE - First night back at the Tokyo Dome!

Stones roll on.!! 26-2-14

TOKYO —Stones roll on.!!

Japan Today’s Kamasami Kong and Metropolis movie critic Don Morton give us a report on the Rolling Stones concert at Tokyo Dome on Wednesday night.
The legendary rock band entertained 50,000 fans. Every seat was taken. The audience was comprised of a wide variety of people from young, mini-skirted ladies in their mid-20s to well over-60 geriatric men. Everybody I observed was definitely “into it” by clapping hands, stomping feet, dancing, singing along. head thrashing, fist-pumping and reliving and remembering the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s and the days of our youth.  by Kamasami Kong.

PHOTOS- TOKYO ON FIRE.!!- (FIRST NIGHT)- 26-2-2014.

PHOTOS- TOKYO ON FIRE.!!-  (1ST NIGHT)- 26-2-2014

PHOTOS- TOKYO ON FIRE.!!-  (1ST NIGHT)- 26-2-2014

Rock ’n’ roll’s favourite model Jerry Hall talks about ageism, poetry, not feeling bitter and what a good dad Mick's always been...

'We were totally the ‘me’ generation': Jerry Hall talks Mick Jagger, poetry and why her children are more sensible than she was

"What a drag it is getting old,” Mick Jagger* once sang. For his former wife, the Texan bombshell Jerry Hall, it doesn’t seem that way at all. On a chilly day in Richmond, she still drips glamour. At 57, she is still modelling, still a darling of the British press, still prompting headlines when she has her hair cut.

“I’m amazed it’s still going ohhnn!” she says in her gracious Southern accent, softened a little after twenty-odd years in Surrey. “When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.” And look at her now, is the implication.
Not content with a long career in fashion and sideline in rock’n’roll, she’s fresh from touring the stage version of The Graduate around Australia and has just had her poetry published in the prestigious literary journal Areté.
“Fashion is fun, but it’s not that important, really is it? It’s important to have other intellectual and creative interests,” she says.
She also gamely throws herself into charity work — just now, she’s campaigning for Give Up Clothes for Good, which encourages people to donate their unwanted outfits to TK Maxx which sorts them to raise funds for Cancer Research. “It’s a good charity and it sort of makes you feel less guilty as you buy more clothes.”
She easily drifts into reminiscence. Hall’s story always had a touch of the mythic, her Texan upbringing pure Southern Gothic. Her father returned from the Second World War with what they now believe was post-traumatic stress disorder. He was volatile, beat his daughters and once lost their house in a poker game. At 16, Hall won $800 compensation following a car accident and fled to France to try to become a model. After a single day on the Riviera, she was spotted — and it so happened that the first photographer to shoot her was the legendary Helmut Newton. “It was pure luck. Good genes helped of course…”
A private view of Bailey's Stardust, a exhibition of images by David Bailey supported by Hugo Boss, at the National Portrait Gallery on February 3, 2014 in London, England. Pic Shows: Jerry Hall; Suzanne Wyman Pic Credit: Dave Benett
Her glitzy, kinky shoots helped make her a sort of proto-supermodel but it was her rock star boyfriends who kept her in the public eye. First, Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music** and later Jagger, whom she first met in 1976. Their relationship lasted 22 years (though they were only married between 1990 and 1999) and produced four children: model Elizabeth (29), actor James (28), model Georgia May (22) and GCSE student Gabriel (16). Jagger’s philandering was well-documented at the time and earned Hall plenty of sympathy, but she bears no ill-will.
In fact publishers rejected a memoir of her time with Jagger as it was not “revealing” enough and she had to return the six-figure advance to Harper Collins. “I just can’t remember bad things. I guess I’m just lucky!” she says and laughs nervously. It’s quite convenient too, I remark. “Well, the truth is, I don’t like writing about things I know. I want to find out about things I don’t know.”
Her main way of doing so is through poetry and her verse is revealing in its own way. A poem from 2007, Icon, begins: “He is a hollow hyperbole...  he fucks their women / and fights their battles against mediocrity / but when he comes home to me / all that’s left is v.d.”
She says she sees poetry not only as a pleasure but also a calling. “So few people read poetry,” she says. “That’s sad isn’t it? Now Mick, he was a good poet…. Hey did you hear, they’re touring again!”
She was appalled at the snide comments The Stones received when they played Glastonbury that summer. “It’s so disrespectful... To get at things takes loooonng  — and they’re the best.” Does she think they’ve improved with age? “Definitely. I mean, listen to Keith’s guitar playing. You don’t play like that when you’re 20. And Mick’s vocals have gotten a lot better.”
Model daughter: Georgia May Jagger The snideness she puts down to sexual jealousy (“oh they had a lot of chicks”) and to ageism. “I don’t mind being older,” she says. “I’m proud of my age. I’ve achieved a lot. It’s the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn’t it strange that now we’re living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it’s a less valuable commodity?”
Nothing dodgy about a bunch of sexuagenarians singing about hitting on teenagers? “Oh young people think they’ve got that all for themselves!” she laughs, dirtily. I take this as a cue to enquire about her rumoured new boyfriend, the evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi, but receive a firm: “I’m not going to talk about that.”
Jagger is not off limits, however, and considering he was a serial cheat and concluded their marriage by having it annulled she is remarkably sanguine. “Oh we had a lot of fun too,” she’s quick to interject. “I think that’s very unhealthy, nursing negative feelings and misery.” And, she says, he has always been a fine father. “I mean, he wasn’t a big nappy changer — but then we always had such wonderful nannies. He has wonderful relationships with each of the children. He takes a huge interest in their education and he’s very keen on physical fitness, good manners. He’s quite old-fashioned in his way.”
She speaks proudly of their youngest son, Gabriel, and of level-headed Georgia who has just bought her first home. “How many young people can claim to have done that?”

Bailey's Stardust - who was there?

 Is the younger generation a little too sensible compared to her own? “I think they are!” she says. “I’m a bit worried. I mean, you want your children to be reasonable people of course, but there is always this primitive drive to go crazy. It’s much better to make those mistakes when you’re really young and no one’s watching than when you’re older and you have more to lose.”
Well, perhaps it simply falls to the children of the babyboomers to pick up the pieces left by their irresponsible parents? “Oh you sound like my daughter Elizabeth. She’s got so many funny causes. She’s always saying, ‘Mum, your generation is all me, me, me. You polluted the whole world and ruined everything and now we have to work to clean it up.’
Jerry Hall (Picture: Jason Bell) “We were totally the ‘me’ generation,” she admits, and bursts out laughing.
“If experience has taught me anything, it’s to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick,” she says.
*For younger readers, Mick Jagger was the Harry Styles of his day only his band was called The Rolling Stones. Pretty cool, huh?...By Richard Godwin.
Thx standar.com.uk

 Mick Jagger To Kickstart New British Airways Music Initiative

by WENN Sir Mick Jagger and singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright have shared their playlists with British Airways bosses as part of a new inflight programme that will allow fans to listen to their favourite tracks as they fly.
Kicking off the new initiative in March (14), Jagger will introduce passengers to artists like Malian singer Salif Keita and late Nigerian star Fela Kuti, while Wainwright will offer up songs by Angelique Kidjo and The Gloaming in April (14).
Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman, Brian Eno, Jamie Cullum and Steve Martin have also been approached by British Airways bosses and asked to create playlists of their favourite tunes.

Stones roll into Japan.!

Stones roll into Japan.!

PHOTO COMBO BY JUN SATO

From left: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones walk through the arrival terminal after arriving on a special plane at Haneda Airport on Sunday afternoon. The band will play three concerts at Tokyo Dome on Feb 26, March 4 and March 6. They were last here eight years ago. Tickets cost 18,000 yen, 16,000 yen and 14,000 yen.

Welcome to Japan!!! The Rolling Stones Haneda Airport.!!

INTERESTING: Rolling Stones Getting Satisfaction in the Middle East...

Rolling Stones Getting Satisfaction in the Middle East.

Its official, the Rolling Stones played their first ever concert in the Middle East and getting satisfaction was what it was all about.  As part of the 14 on Fire Tour, Mick Jagger and the guys played on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi on Friday to a crowd of 30,000, apparently mostly Western, cheering and excited fans.
Jagger, clad in red satin and black sequins, and even a red feather boa later in the show, strutted the stage like he always has, showing little sign of his advanced age.  Guitarists Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards along with drummer Charlie Watts kept up with him as always.
The band blasted out the favorites, including Honky Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, and Sympathy for the Devil, to the cheers and applause of the audience in their two-hour gig.  In total the band played 19 well-known and well-loved songs.
Unlike Madonna’s trip there in 2012, which featured some controversial and provocative outfits, the concert was accepted and enjoyed without any problems in the ultra conservative location.
Reportedly the mostly Western fans had traveled from all over the United Arab Emirates to enjoy the only show in the Middle East, as the Rolling Stones tour now moves on to Japan, Macau, Australia and New Zealand.
One British expat, Lisa Ball-Lechgar, was heard to say that “for their first gig in the Middle East, it was magic. It’s history.”
According to a review in The National, some people might not have been getting satisfaction and may, in fact, have been a little disappointed as the Rolling Stones played their first concert in the Middle East.  Apparently the band didn’t play those classic numbers, Get Off My Cloud, Ruby Tuesday and Wild Horses, which was disappointing indeed.  However, in general the report said that the Rolling Stones’ Abu Dhabi show was “a solid performance” and the band, all in their late 60s or early 70s, didn’t fail to impress.
A review in Time Out Dubai seems to agree, saying that the band gave an incredible two hour concert, “ brimming with bluster, groove, spirit, hits” and apparently great enthusiasm.
According to the reviewer, Jagger even attempted to drop in a bit of Arabic in his between song banter.  Apparently, the band made a couple of mistakes and Richards even laughingly sang the line “am I losing my touch?”, after messing up the line before, but even this didn’t matter to the fans.  Said reviewer also said that Jagger’s vocals have apparently “lost clarity with age,” but that he still trounced around the stage like a man half his age.
According to a commenter on the video rendition of I Can’t Get no Satisfaction at the Abu Dhabi concert featured below, he really enjoyed himself, saying, “What a blast! A once in a lifetime experience with the ‘greatest rock n’ roll band in the world!’”
While the next step in the 14 on Fire Tour is in Asia and Australasia, it has recently been announced that the band are planning on taking the tour to Europe in Summer 2014.  According to a Pollstar report which was published on February 4, the European tour dates and locations are yet to be announced, but this is exciting news indeed for European fans of the Stones.
Referred to in one review as the “wrinkly rockers” the Rolling Stones have definitely been getting satisfaction of their own, both at their first concert in the Middle East and elsewhere on tour.By Anne Sewell

FLASHBACK:Bill presents special award at the Music Producers Guild Awards 2014 ...

Bill presents special award at the Music Producers Guild Awards 2014

Bill Wyman attended the Music
Producers Guild Awards 2014 in London on February 14, presenting Sean
Davis with a special recognition award.





The annual Music Producers Guild Awards took place at the Park Plaza
Riverbank Hotel in London and is a music highlight, attracting top names
from the music industry. There were 15 Awards were presented, with the
top award for UK Producer of the Year going to Flood (Mark Ellis) and
Alan Moulder for their work on Foals album Holy Fire.


Bill was on hand to recognise the work of Sean Davis, who scooped the
Special Recognition Award. Sean was the first person to ever cut an
acetate for the Rolling Stones.


Now in its sixth year, the Music Producers Guild Awards recognises
the enormous contribution made by recording professionals to the success
of the UK’s music industry. This year’s event once again highlighted
the close relationship between artist and recording professional with
many artists attending the ceremony to present their producer with an
award.


Among them were Bill Wyman, Fyfe Dangerfield, Seal, Nigel Godrich, Tony Visconti and Colin Greenwood.


Steve Levine, chairman of the Music Producers Guild, said that
winning an MPG Awards represents the highest level of achievement
because it is an endorsement by one’s peers.


Find out more about the MPG awards at the Music Producer Guild Awards 2014 web site.

In case you missed it last time, Bill was also at the MPG Awards
2013, and gave this short interview about his long-time friend Glyn
Johns, who had won the MPG Inspiration Award 2013. We’ve included the
video below for your viewing.THANKS BILL.

PHOTOS-Concert rewiew: The rolling Stones.ABU DHABI 21-2.14

Concert rewiew: The rolling Stones.ABU DHABI 21-2.14

Abu Dhabi set list

• Start Me Up

• It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)

• You Got Me Rocking

• Tumbling Dice

• Emotional Rescue

• Angie

• Doom And Gloom

• Paint It Black

• Honky Tonk Women

• Slipping Away (with Keith Richards on lead vocals)

• Before They Make Me Run (with Keith Richards on lead vocals and Mick Taylor)

• Midnight Rambler (With Mick Taylor)

• Miss You

• Gimme Shelter (the UAE’s favourite Rolling Stones song)

• Jumpin’ Jack Flash

ENCORE 1

• Sympathy For The Devil

• Brown Sugar

ENCORE 2

• You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with the Al Khubairat Singers)

•(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (With Mick Taylor)

The band kicked off their latest jaunt in the capital with a two hour performance that may have lacked in surprises but packed with enough hits to keep both the faithful and first-timers happy. The concert also cemented du Arena as the region’s leading concert venue.
The Yas Island music hub has hosted many top stars but the Rolling Stones’ mammoth stage-set up was arguably one to be rivalled.
However, those used to extra space in the Fire Pit and Golden Circle areas of the arena received a rude shock; the combination of over 30,000 people and the 40 metre T-Shaped stage split both sections in two, cramming fans in on both sides.
Fortunately the stage was elevated to such a height that even the vertically challenged had a decent view of the wrinkly rockers.
Arriving on stage to the sound of tribal drumming, the Stones launched into Start Me Up for their opening number.
Frontman Mick Jagger was up for it. Dressed in a sparkly red jacket — the first of nearly half a dozen costume changes — the 70-year-old’s voice was in fine form as he delivered the lines with utter conviction.
The energy was maintained with the follow up, the stomping It’s Only Rock’n’roll.
The song was another demonstration of the band’s influence on the rockers who followed in their footsteps; when Jagger stretched the lyric “strange” in the opening verse it was hard not to think of Oasis singer Liam Gallagher who made this vocal technique his stock in trade.
The cobwebs were truly blown away with You Got Me Rocking.
Anchored by Charlie Watts’s powerful drumming, guitarist Keith Richards and Ronnie Woods locked onto a sturdy groove while a howling Jagger — supported by long-time backing vocalists Lisa Fischer and Bernard Fowler — delivered that memorable chorus that conquered stadiums for two decades.
The band then turned away from their primal rock sounds to explore some of their more musically adventurous material.
Tumbling Dice remains one of their most dynamic offerings, its magic lying in how that standard rhythm and blues riff majestically swells into emotional gospel refrains.
Brought back from a near thirty year retirement, the funk-inspired Emotional Rescue gave the crowd plenty of opportunity to practice their falsettos before the tempo died down with the stinging acoustic led ballad Angie.
Jagger remained a consummate frontman throughout the show. Ever so gracious, he kept peppering his banter with Arabic phrases such as “shukran jazeelan” (thank you very much) and “kaifa halek?” (how are you?).
The best moment was when he exercised his UAE knowledge by attempting to mention the seven emirates. Astonishingly the tongue twister Umm Al Qaiwain got a mention but Ajman was forgotten.
After a few more high points with the tetchy Paint It Black (the crowd singing the famed sitar parts) and the rollicking Honky Tonk Women, the set took a worryingly slow turn with Keith Richards taking the lead on the languorous bluesy numbers Slipping Away and Before They Make Me Run.
This was followed by an epic take of the evocative Midnight Rambler.
The performances remained strong throughout — particular Richards growly take on Before They Make Me Run — but sequenced together it represented a rather large chunk of the set where the pace remained too languid.
Another disappointing feature was the low-key welcome guitarist Mick Taylor received as part of the show.
The former Stone simply walked on stage to assist Richards on Slipping Away before really shining (and being properly introduced) during Midnight Rambler where he traded guitar licks with Jagger’s harmonica. It seemed a rather odd way to treat a special guest, particularly one that was responsible for many of the band’s best musical moments.
The set went back on track with Gimme Shelter (voted by fans online as the UAE’s favourite Rolling Stones song) and the set closer Jumpin’ Jack Flash with its riffs inspiring a mass of air guitars.
The two encores boasted Brown Sugar and the elegiac You Can’t Always Get What You Want, the choral accompaniment in the latter performed splendidly by the Abu Dhabi group The Al Khubairat Singers.
The band called it a night with I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, the crowd po-goed along with the hip-swivelling Jagger with the final notes triggering fireworks from the roof of the venue.
Not everyone would have been satisfied with the band’s set list. Some of the glaring omissions this time around included Get Off My Cloud, Ruby Tuesday and Wild Horses.
That said, The Rolling Stones’ Abu Dhabi show was a solid performance.
The 14 On Fire Tour may not be that different to their previous performances, but it remains another celebration of rock’n’roll by a revered band who fifty years on, are still showing us how it’s done.