Pete Townshend on Mick Jagger’s father
I’m not sure if it’s been reported widely before, but Pete Townshend recently revealed that he used to bump into Mick Jagger’s dad around London and that Joe Jagger suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
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The Charlie Watts Auction – Gifts from Mick & Keith on the Block
Rolling Stones fans will be thrilled by a fascinating subset of items in the upcoming Charlie Watts auction of books and jazz ephemera at Christie’s. Among the 475 lots are eight that were gifts from the late drummer’s bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
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Jann Wenner’s Back Pages: Memoirs of a Rolling Stone Groupie
LIKE A ROLLING STONE
A Memoir
By Jann S. Wenner
Little, Brown & Co. $35 list; $17.50 at Target and on Amazon at review date.
Eddie Cochran’s last ride
A little over a year after “the day the music died”—when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash—Eddie Cochran met a similarly violent fate on April 17, 1960, dealing another critical blow to the fledgling rock ‘n’ roll genre.
Read moreThe Rolling Stones in New Zealand, 1965 + 1966
I came across these photos at the National Library of New Zealand. For more about the Rolling Stones and me, click here.
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