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Exclusive: Mick Jagger Says Working on New Songs for Next Rolling Stones Album Following Blues Hit...

The Rolling Stones are not done, by a long shot.
Mick Jagger told me a few nights ago that the next Stones album will not be covers but new songs. “I’m working on on new songs now.”
The Stones had a huge hit this winter with “Blue and Lonesome,” their album of blues covers. “B&L” was their biggest hit in years, and sustained itself on the charts much longer than anyone would have guessed.
Now, building on that momentum, Mick says the new album will be new. The Stones are eying their 55th anniversary next, after a triumphant 50th celebration that has almost never ended.
Mick brought three of his kids to the Vanity Fair Oscar party last night, and has never seemed in a better mood. He laughed when I asked him about a Tweet he put out the other day. A rumor started that he was bringing rising star Priyanka Chopra to the stars. “I’m not even going to the Oscars!” Mick Tweeted. And he didn’t.
But a new Stones album? Bring it on. I don’t care how old they are. It’s a sound I will never tire of!

By:  Roger Friedman http://www.showbiz411.com

Cool video: The Stones, paying tribute to James Brown in Werchter, Belgium, Tuesday June 5, 2007

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Videos: Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts – animated New York WNEW-FM 102.7 radio interviews ...

Fresh from the radio archives – watch these brilliant Radio.com animations of Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts being interviewed on touring with the Rolling Stones and the the future of the Stones.

When Bill was with the Rolling Stones, the band conducted hundreds of radio interviews – including these classics with New York’s WNEW-FM rock ‘n’ roll radio station in 1977, brought to life with Radio.com. The archived interviews have been turned into animations, so you can relive those interviews!
In this video from the vaults of WNEW-FM 102.7 – New York’s Rock’ n Roll station, Radio.com presents an interview from 1977, where the Rolling Stones’ rhythm section, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman, discuss the future of the band.

And, in this video from the vaults of WNEW-FM 102.7 – New York’s Rock’ n Roll station, Radio.com Minimation presents an archival interview from 1977, where Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones talk about the spectacle of their concerts included such high tech gimmicks as ramps and swings on stage. Things have changed a bit in the years since!

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So, Apparently Mick Jagger Wrote A Book…Too Bad You’ll Never Get To Read It..

Today in “ThinRolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger apparently wrote a memoir in the early 1980s, “baring his soul” and divulging all sorts of fun tales from life backstage and on the road as the frontman of one of the biggest bands to walk the earth. There’s just one problem: we’ll never get to read it. 

Here’s why: according to London publisher John Blake, the 75,000 page manuscript and a few of Jagger’s handwritten notes were acquired from a “mutual friend” about three years ago and he claims that the ‘delicious, heady’ memoir was turned down by publishers in the early 80s for being a little low in the sex, drugs, and rock and roll content they were looking for. Blake reached out to Jagger through his manager Joyce Smyth, who confirmed the authenticity of the memoir after receiving a copy and denied Blake’s request to publish the book:

“John Blake writes to me from time to time seeking permission to publish this manuscript,” she said, via her law firm.
“The answer is always the same: He cannot, because it isn’t his and he accepts this. Readers will be able to form a view as regards the matters to which John Blake refers when Sir Mick’s autobiography appears, should he choose to write it.”
Unfortunately for Rolling Stones fans, a Mick Jagger memoir doesn’t look to be on the horizon any time soon; he’s too busy reveling with his bandmates in the success of the band’s latest release Blue & Lonesome and with new son Deveraux on the scene, it’s pretty safe to say that Mick’s time is more or less occupied for the foreseeable future.
We are dying to know about the time he bought that country house while high on psychedelics, though…

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That time the ‘world’s dumbest’ terrorist blew up the Rolling Stones’ equipment ...

Despite what recent political rhetoric would have you believe, terrorism is hardly the sole property of Muslims from the Middle East. Timothy McVeigh and his pals blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the left-wing Red Army Faction in Germany killed as many as 34 people in multiple incidents, and the Weather Underground destroyed the sub-basement furnace room of a townhouse on West 11th Street in 1970. One can multiply the examples.
Indeed, depending on the time and place, there have been terrorist incidents where the most likely suspects—the suspects many would have instantly guessed—were radical French separatists in Canada. Such a case occurred in the summer of 1972 during the Rolling Stones’ legendary American Tour that year, when a bomb destroyed part of a truck and several speakers of the group’s gear several hours before a gig.


New Musical Express, July 22, 1972

Rolling Stone reported at the time:

The two equipment vans had arrived from Toronto and were parked on a ramp at the Montreal Forum. The dynamite blast that exploded under the ramp blew out a slew of windows in a nearby apartment and the cones of 30 speakers inside one of the trucks.
“Whoever it was was the world’s dumbest bomber,” said press agent Gary Stromberg. “First he put the bomb under the ramp instead of the truck, and the other truck was the one with most of the stuff inside.”

Air Canada bumped luggage from a flight out of Los Angeles to accommodate the replacement cones, and the show was able to go on just 45 minutes later than planned. However, some sort of unrelated snafu left 3,000 disappointed Stones fans outside the venue without a ticket—they proceeded to engage in significant civil unrest, including pelting the building and police with rocks, wine, beer bottles, and bricks. Jagger himself was hit by a flying bottle inside the venue.
In his essential book S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, Robert Greenfield provides this account:

Later that night the phone rings in Peter Rudge’s room. He picks it up, talks for a while, then begins making phone calls. “Rudge-O here,” he tells Gary Stromberg. “This is rather important. Could you come down to the hall? We’ve been bombed.”
Some person (or persons) has placed one to three sticks of dynamite underneath one of the trucks. Fortunately, it is the one that holds the steel loading ramp, so all it does is blow a four-by-eight hole in the bottom of the truck, disintegrate the ramp, and destroy all the cones in the speakers. The driver, who usually sleeps in the rig, is off somewhere, which saves him from at least a heart attack, if not actual death. All of the windows are broken in the apartment buildings on the street facing the Forum where the truck is parked.
The street is roped off. The police are making diagrams and gathering shards and pieces and a very French Sergeant de Detectif is in charge. Rudge persists in calling him “captain.” Someone says to him, “Certainly this is the work of one of your French separatists.”
“OH NO M’SEIU!” he replies with classic Gallic outrage. “C’est une American draft dodgeur. Zey are all over. Zey come up here with impunity.”
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The bomb at the Forum was just the first of four timed to go off at intervals during the day. They wake Jagger up to tell him about it. “Who did it?” he asks sleepily. No one knows. “Well,” he yawns, “why the fuck didn’t they leave a note?”
But he’s shook. The French separatists, it is well known, are cray-zee. They’ll stop at nothing, and all day long he keeps referring to the event uneasily, worried that they plan to pull something off at the show. But the show itself goes off peacefully, the bomb squad having turned the building upside down more than once. Outside the hall, the kids and the cops get down to it and fourteen people are injured, thirteen arrested, and a TV news cruiser is set on fire. UPI, in an inspired piece of fiction, reports that the Stones leave the Forum by means of a helicopter that takes off from the roof and circles the crowd announcing, “THEY HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING: GO HOME” in both French and English.

This difficult stretch of the tour was by no means over with. The very next day, in Rhode Island, the Stones’ entourage got into a fight with photographer Andy Dickerman, landing Jagger and Richards in jail.
New Musical Express image courtesy of the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.