Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut album until he was 33 — he was never young in public. Faithfull was …
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Ask Bill Wyman what people should expect fromThe Stones and Brian Jones,documentarian Nick Broomfield’s new film about the late, doomed founder of the band, and he’s pretty straightforward about it: “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but!” That may be a slight exaggeration, but there’s no denying that the …
Read More »The Rolling Stones' Hell-Raising Original Ringleader
According to this very publication, the Rolling Stones’ new album Hackney Diamonds is the best the English rockers have sounded “in about half a century,” so there’s no better time for the new documentary The Stones and Brian Jones to hit theaters (and VOD). When documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield was …
Read More »It's 2023, and the Rolling Stones Have Made a Record You'll Want to Play More Than Once — Seriously
Not counting their blues covers record from 2016, the last time the Rolling Stones bequeathed us with an album of fresh material was during George W. Bush’s presidency.That record, 2006’s A Bigger Bang, was feisty but not especially memorable, and in the nearly two decades since, maybe even the Stones …
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