Ronnie Wood reveals The Rolling Stones "in talks" to perform at Olympics ceremonies
Ronnie Wood let slip that he HAS, in fact, been in conversations with London 2012 bosses over the wrinkly rockers joining the Best of British line-up
Somebody obviously didn’t get last week’s statement regarding The Rolling Stones not appearing at the Olympic Games.
Ronnie Wood let slip that he HAS, in fact, been in conversations with London 2012 bosses over the wrinkly rockers joining the Best of British line-up.
“Yeah, we’ve been asked. We were asked to open it with the Stones and close it with The Faces. I would be the first bi-athlete musician.”
(I don’t believe that last bit but it would be great telly).
Last week, his representatives said: “The Rolling Stones wish to point out that they are not performing at any concerts tied to the 2012 Olympic Games.” Ahem.
Danny Boyle, 55, will direct the launch ceremony and Sir Paul McCartney, 69, may take part, along with Adele, 23, and Blur.
But Ronnie, 64, says he might find it difficult to fit the gig into his schedule. “I’m busy with The Faces getting inducted into the Hall Of Fame in April and art shows,” he adds.
Mick Jagger slated to perform at White House
Mick Jagger and a host of blues luminaries will perform this month for U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
According to an article posted today (2/14/12) at Pollstar.com, The Rolling Stones lead singer will join an impressive list of artists including B.B. King, Buddy Guy,Jeff Beck and Keb Mo at the White House on Feb 21 for a celebration of blues music in recognition of Black History Month.
The event, titled “In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues,” part of the Obama’s ongoing musically eclectic “In Performance” series, will be streamed live on the White House Website.
The program will also be taped and televised by PBS public television in the U.S. on Feb 27 (2/27/12).
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Charlie Watts ready for Rolling Stones tour
Charlie Watts is ready to tour with The Rolling Stones' to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
The drummer is keen to reunite with bandmates Sir Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards for their milestone year in 2012, although he admits logistically it could be a problem.
He said: "It would be lovely to do some shows because it will be fifty years.
"Ronnie plays, I still play, Mick sings, he can do it anyway, I think Keith is doing some records.
"Anyway it would be great if we did, we are just getting to an age where it's getting a bit difficult to get it together and it's such a bloody performance getting us together."
Charlie also claimed the reason the band has lasted so long is because no one wants to be the person who breaks up the group.
He explained to radio station BBC 6 Music: "I think no one wants to quit because the others will say 'you quit'."
While Keith has long said he, Charlie and Ronnie are keen to mark a half century since the legendary group began, Mick has played down rumours they will stage any concerts, although he reportedly attended meetings to discuss how they should approach the milestone.
Keith said: "I don't see why in the world the Stones can't put together some kind of show next year. I'd almost count on it. It doesn't have to be the whole spectacle bull***t again, but we've got to find our own way through this."
Mick released a self titled debut album with his supergroup Superheavy last September.
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Rolling Stones Plan London Jam Session
'Mick's welcome, and I'm sure he'll turn up,' says Keith Richards
This month, Keith Richards will meet fellow Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts in a London studio. "We're just going to play a little together, because we haven't played for three or four years," Richards says. "You don't necessarily want to rehearse or write anything – you just want to touch bases. That's a good start: me, Charlie and Ronnie. Mick's welcome, and I'm sure he'll turn up, but right now we just want to get our chops down."
Beyond that, the Stones' plans for their 50th anniversary next year remain unclear. "I just hope we can perform live," says Wood. "It'd be great to see if that old spark is there."
For now, the closest fans will get is the stellar Some Girls Live in Texas DVD – shot on a hot night in Fort Worth during the Stones' brief summer 1978 tour. It's part of the upcoming Some Girls reissue – due November 21st and packed with extras including 12 previously unreleased tracks, which sent the band back to a period when Richards was awaiting trial for heroin possession, Mick Jagger was hitting the New York club scene hard, and the Stones were forced to confront changing times. "We were getting a certain kick up the ass from the punks," says Richards. "Not that I'm a really big punk fan, but their energy, and the fact that you realize another generation was coming up on top of you, was a kick up the ass. It felt time to get down to the nuts and bolts of it and not play around with glamorous female voices and horns and stuff."
Beginning in October 1977, the band hunkered down at a live rehearsal space in Paris' Pathé Marconi studios and jammed for months on end. "Everybody was exploding with riffs," says Wood. "The motto was 'More fast numbers.' " They churned out their most eclectic album ever, ranging from after-hours disco glitter ("Miss You") to speedy punk ("When the Whip Comes Down") and soulful ballads showing off Richards and Wood's newfound guitar-weaving majesty ("Beast of Burden" and "Just My Imagination"). Says Wood, "We'd go into a Western mode, we'd go into heavy rock n' roll mode, and we'd just go into songs in A."
With producer Don Was (who helmed last year's Exile on Main St. reissue), the Stones returned to Some Girls earlier this year, scouring hundreds of hours of tapes from the original sessions, using long-circulated bootlegs as a guide to highlights like "Claudine," a stripped-down boogie about French singer Claudine Longet, accused of murdering her boyfriend, ski racer Spider Sabich, in 1976, and "Tallahassee Lassie," a raucous Chuck Berry-style number cut during a stop on the Some Girls tour.
"There was a really great version of 'Miss You,' which is almost jazz," Richards says of one surprise the band found in the vault. "Mick didn't like his vocal on that. I would have loved to put that on, just because it's so different from the other one. But at the same time Mick said, 'No, I'm not cutting it.' The same would happen to me. … We go into a couple things like that, then we just look at each other and go, 'Oh, what a shame.'
Revisiting Exile and Some Girls in the last two years, Wood says, "has re-injected some past energy, and made us realize what a kicking live band we are."
The Some Girls and Exile reissues might only be the beginning: Was wants to tackle Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed or Sticky Fingers soon. "There's so much material," he says. "If they never went in the studio again, you could have a new Stones album every year for the next 50 years, and it would all be good."
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Keith Richards' Autobiography To Be Turned Into A Film?
The idea of finding someone for the lead is daunting, he says...
The Rolling Stones star Keith Richards has admitted that his autobiography Life, could be turned into a film.
The musician, who won Best Writer at the GQ Men of the Year Awards this week, admitted thathis novel could one day be adapted to the big screen.
He told The Daily Telegraph: "There are feelers out at the minute [but] I'm in no rush right at the moment."
Richards even discussed casting possibilites admitting that finding someone to play him would be daunting.
He joked: "How are they going to find me? The idea of a succession of Keith Richards coming down is horrifying."
Life, which was published last year, received good reviews from his former Rolling Stones bandmates expect for Mick Jagger, who thought it was 'a bit bitchy here and there'. In all fairness Richards did describe the former singer as 'unbearable' in his autobiography.
Rolling Stones Fuel Tour Rumors With London Meeting
All four members photographed leaving the same building
By Andy Greene
All four members of the Rolling Stones were photographed exiting a building in London yesterday, fueling rumors that the band is planning a 50th anniversary tour for 2012. The band is unlikely to confirm anything for the foreseeable future, partially because Mick Jagger wants all attention focused on his new band SuperHeavy. The Stones haven't played together since their Bigger Bang tour wrapped in August of 2007. When we asked Jagger about a possible Stones tour this past May he just chuckled. "I don't have any announcement to make at the moment," he said. "I'm just, uh, ya know…just doing this [SuperHeavy] right now."
We're putting this out to our readers: What do you think Jagger is holding in that photo? We think he probably saw that there were photographers outside and covered something up in a purple towel – but what?
