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2000 BRIT Awards

Because of his advanced state of intoxication he believed them and walked on to the stage, eventually ending up next to a bemused Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and actress Thora Birch, who were about to present the award for Best Soundtrack Album.

6′1″

Exile in Guyville was meant to be a song-for-song response to the Rolling Stones' 1972 album Exile on Main Street.

Anthony Thistlethwaite

During the 1990s which included contributions from the likes of: Kirsty MacColl, Eddi Reader and Ralph McTell as well as many musicians including ('Rolling Stones' guitarist) Mick Taylor and Sonny Landreth.

Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Ben Fong-Torres

He conducted interviews for Rolling Stone of entertainment figures including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, comedian Steve Martin and Linda Ronstadt's first cover story in 1975.

Brett Smiley

In 1974, Smiley—who, at the time, was managed and produced by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham—recorded an album, Breathlessly Brett. The album—which includes the songs "Va Va Va Voom" and "Space Ace"—remained unreleased until 2004, when RPM Records included it as part of its Lipsmackin' 70s collection.

Brno Exhibition Centre

The Rolling Stones chose the Brno Exhibition Centre for the 2007 A Bigger Bang European Tour.

Café Hafa

Opened in 1921, the cafe has retained its 1920s style of decor and through the years has been visited by numerous writers and singers, from Paul Bowles and William S. Burroughs, to The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

CB Simulator

For example, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones held the first online multimedia conference using CompuServe CB from London on December 7, 1995.

CHNO-FM

After the flip, the first song of the new variety hits format was "Start Me Up", by the Rolling Stones.

Da Marino

He also described the place as a favorite haunt of "celebrities", citing public statements from people like Mario Lopez, and naming frequent patrons from various television series, other actors, and famed musicians who sometimes take to the piano to spontaneously entertain the crowd like Sugar Hill Gang, Noth, or Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.

Dolton, Devon

It has a population of around 900 inhabitants, including the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts.

Drowning with Land in Sight

The music, their heaviest up to that point, ranged from the opening note-for-note Led Zeppelin cover to the straightforward Rolling Stones homage "Cold Cold Night" to Roy Orbison-influenced ballads "Film at 11", "The Jig Is Up," and "Alone Together." The lyrics primarily reflected the stress of singer Michael Roe's divorce, except for "Dave's Blues," about guitarist David Leonhardt's illness with cancer.

Elina Karokhina

With Anthony Thistlethwaite (formerly of “The Waterboys")- “All The Way” and “Welcome to the White Nights” on the album Crawfish and Caviar, recorded 10/95 (Demon Records) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with special guest Mick Taylor, formerly of the Rolling Stones.

Event cinema

The thrill of Live broadcasts means they are generally regarded as more popular than recorded events, but there are exceptions; artists with a loyal cult or teenage following tend to do particularly well in this area, as concert films featuring artists such as the Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam, JLS, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones have shown.

Ian Knight

From 1968 on, he helped stage a number of free concerts in Hyde Park, including the Rolling Stones, and a performance at the Royal Albert Hall including The Who and Chuck Berry on the same day.

IMac

The color rollout also featured two distinctive ads: one called 'Life Savers' featured the Rolling Stones song "She's a Rainbow" and an advertisement for the white version had the introduction of Cream's "White Room" as its backing track.

It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous

"Gimme Shelter" is a cover version of the Rolling Stones song that the group had recorded with Samantha Fox for the Shelter benefit single Putting Our House in Order, although this album version removes Fox's vocal.

Je suis un rock star

"(Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star" was a solo hit for Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones in 1981.

John L. Reese

That led to Guns N' Roses manager Doug Goldstein hiring him to become the band's tour manager for their 1989 Los Angeles Coliseum concerts with the Rolling Stones, then as the tour manager for the massive Use Your Illusion Tours and then as a partner and personal manager with Big FD Entertainment, representing a number of artists including Guns N' Roses, The Stone Roses, Blind Melon and many more.

KEZE

From the late 1970s through the 1980s, the station enjoyed large audience appeal on the strength of playing the "classics" (e.g. Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin) as well as championing newer hard rock bands such as Night Ranger, Krokus, Ronnie James Dio, Ozzy Osbourne, and Def Leppard.

Kieran Goss

Growing up in a big family with diverse musical tastes meant that early on he was hearing his brothers’ Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson records, his mother’s Frank Sinatra records and his sisters’ Rolling Stones records.

KMFM Maidstone

Mike Russell was the first voice on air in 2003; the first song to be played was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones.

Lee Cooper

Lee Cooper jeans were adopted by the youth counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s and Harold capitalised on this association by sponsoring a Rolling Stones tour and working with Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin.

Meat Puppets II

Rykodisc reissued the album in 1999 with extra tracks and b-sides, including a cover of the Rolling Stones' Aftermath-era track "What To Do."

Music of Senegal

Xalam toured with groups like Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, finally achieving success in Senegal with 1988's Xarit.

Rising Up Angry

With profiles of figures such as Malcolm X and Fred Hampton, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, reviews of the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and The Wild Bunch, Rising Up Angry mixed political and cultural commentary with cartoons, montages, discussions of motorcycles and custom cars, with histories of labor activism and guerrilla warfare.

Robbie Gladwell

On his website, Gladwell claims to have worked in sessions and toured with The Rolling Stones, BB King, Suzi Quatro, Percy Sledge, Little Eva and to have shared stages with Dave Gilmour and Tom Jones.

Rock Therapy

Rock Therapy was a 1996 one-off project consisting of Queen guitarist Brian May, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, plus a number of guest vocalists including Sam Brown, Andy Fairweather-Low, Paul Rodgers and Lulu.

Rocka Rolla

The original "bottle cap" album cover art was initially intended by designer John Pasche for use with an unspecified Rolling Stones album.

Scala Browne Agency

Mim produced the first direct to disk album for the band Warsaw Pakt, before founding "ESP Music and Management", an agency which represented record producers, Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones), Stuart Levine (Simply Red) and B.B. King.

Shaved Fish

A Creem magazine reader's poll in 1975 included the album among the top five "Best Reissues" of 1975, placing fourth, behind two Rolling Stones compilations, Made in the Shade and Metamorphosis, and Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes.

South Salem, New York

Notable residents have included the 33rd Vice President of the United States Henry A. Wallace, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, the photographer O. Winston Link, the artist Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965), the pianist Hélène Grimaud, the composer and arranger Clare Grundman, the artist and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, the singer and musical stage headliner Sally Ann Howes, and the actress Colleen Dewhurst.

Sov gott Rose-Marie

Pärson Sound's drone-based experimental rock sound, inspired by The Velvet Underground, Terry Riley and the Rolling Stones, was filtered through a more folky, nationalist inspired sound, in hopes to "create a more temporary kind of rhythmic music that could play the same role as traditional folk music."

Stinky Fingers

The record sleeve by Wayne Shellabarger delivers a mighty Tom of Finland inspired revision of the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers album from 1971 – featuring a safety-pinned glans peeping out from the waistline and sperm dripping down from the denim pants (these rather explicit details can be discovered on the back-folded parts of the sleeve).

Strawberry Fields Festival

Chip Monck, who designed the stage lighting for Woodstock and became the impromptu emcee of that event had planned to emcee Strawberry Fields but the various changes in dates and venues pushed the festival into August and Mr.Monck was bound to honour a previous commitment to work the Rolling Stones European tour at that time.

The War Between the Tates

The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger appeared in a cameo role as the campus radical Joe Freedom.

Tigarah

Within months, she received press attention from Blender Magazine(U.S), URB(U.S), "XLR8R",(U.S) "Dazed & Confused"(UK/Japan) and the Los Angeles Times(U.S), BPM(U.S), Rolling Stones(AUS), Folha de São Paulo(Brazil), Sonic(Sweden, cover), NPR radio(U.S), etc.

Trash Box

The lamented deletions include legendary bands like Zakary Thaks and the Moving Sidewalks (where Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top started out), plus the remarkable track called "Makin' Deals" by the Satans that opened that LP, which has the same general theme and even some of the same lyrics as the later Stones classic, "Sympathy for the Devil".

Volkswagen Golf Mk3

During the 1990s, Volkswagen sponsored three high-profile rock bands' European tours, and issued a special-edition Golf, with distinctive exterior markings, for each: the Golf Pink Floyd Edition (1994), the Golf Rolling Stones Edition (1995), and the Golf Bon Jovi Edition (1996).

Yiewsley

Ronnie Wood, guitarist in rock bands the Rolling Stones and The Faces, grew up in Yiewsley, attending St Stephen's Primary School and St Matthew's Church of England Secondary School

Young@Heart

In later years she appeared “on stage” via video, performing the Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want.


see also

Anybody Seen My Baby?

It features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by The Rolling Stones to include sampling (Bridges to Babylon is the only Rolling Stones album to include sampling).

Black and Blue

In December 1974, the Rolling Stones returned to Munich, Germany—the recording site of their previous release It's Only Rock 'n' Roll—and began the recording of their new album at Musicland Studios, with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (as the Glimmer Twins) producing again.

Burnin' Sky

Burnin' Sky was recorded in France at Château d'Hérouville in July and August 1976 with future Rolling Stones engineer Chris Kimsey but its release was delayed until March 1977 as to not compete with the band's then-current album Run with the Pack.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

The number was part of the Rolling Stones' concert repertoire during their Licks Tour in 2002–2003 and A Bigger Bang Tour in 2005–2007.

Charles Watts

Charlie Watts (born 1941), English rock and jazz drummer with The Rolling Stones

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

The first map of the Legions of the Damned campaign in "Servants of the Dark" is titled Beggar's Banquet, after the Rolling Stones album of the same name, the first album to feature the song "Sympathy for the Devil" - the Legions being the demonic race of the game.

Eltingville, Staten Island

Fashion model Patti Hansen, a Tottenville native, who visited her Norwegian grandparents often in Eltingville and attended the Eltingville Lutheran Church with her family, is best known for having married Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards.

From Acid to Zen

David Fricke of Rolling Stone selected the album as his "Fricke's Pick", writing, "From Acid to Zen is a big step in a bigger gamble", and, "It’s a shotgun buffet, like those early U.S. LPs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones that combined album tracks and singles from unrelated sessions, and it succeeds the same way: like an instant greatest-hits record".

Hazel Stone

Hazel's first published appearance was as Hazel Stone in The Rolling Stones (1952), where she lives in the Moon with her son, his wife, and their four children.

Heinlein juveniles

The Mars of several of the books (Red Planet, Between Planets, The Rolling Stones, and Time for the Stars) has indigenous, intelligent (even dangerous) life, but not necessarily the same Martians in each book.

I Want to Be Loved

"I Want to Be Loved", a 1955 blues song written by Willie Dixon, performed by Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones

King Bee

"I'm a King Bee", a song composed by Slim Harpo, and covered by Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd

Lelia Doolan

She taught at the College of Commerce, Rathmines (now part of the DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Irish course in Media Communications, teaching Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.

Lenticular printing

Some notable lenticular prints from this time include the limited-edition cover of the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request, and Saturnalia's Magical Love, a picture disk with a lenticular center.

Little Red Rooster

"The Red Rooster" was one in a string of Willie Dixon-penned songs that Howlin' Wolf recorded in the early 1960s that were later popularized by rock artists ("Back Door Man" – The Doors, "Spoonful" – Cream, "Little Red Rooster" – The Rolling Stones, and "I Ain't Superstitious" – The Jeff Beck Group).

The recording session took place at the Chess Studios in Chicago, the same studios where Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, et al. recorded their blues classics (the Rolling Stones instrumental "2120 South Michigan Avenue" was named after the studio's address).

Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988

Richards' set during the tour was composed primarily of material from his solo debut album – he played ten of the eleven songs from the record – and also included many of his Rolling Stones vocal highlights, with "Happy", "Connection" and "Too Rude" appearing on the official release, though "Before They Make Me Run" and "Little T&A" only turned up on popular bootlegs such as L.A. Connection.

The album includes several Rolling Stones songs, including "Too Rude" (from Dirty Work), "Time Is on My Side", "Happy" (from Exile on Main St.), and "Connection" (from Between the Buttons.)

Live Licks

Of the special guests taking part, Sheryl Crow appears on "Honky Tonk Women", while Solomon Burke sings on his own "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", which The Rolling Stones originally covered on The Rolling Stones No. 2 in 1965.

Los Blops

Los Blops formed in Chile in 1970 when Eduardo Gatti (vocals and guitars), Julio Villalobos (guitars), Pedro Greene (drums), Andres Orrego (keyboards) and Juan Pablo Orrego (bass) performed covers (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Kinks) in a local club in Isla Negra, with additional changes in the band with the addition of members Sergio Bezard (drums) and Juan Contreras (flute and keyboards).

Peter Tosh

That same year, Tosh appeared in the Rolling Stones' video Waiting on a Friend.

Rock 'n' Rolling Stones

Rock 'n' Rolling Stones is a compilation album by The Rolling Stones released in 1972.

Rolling Stones Records

It was discontinued in 1992 when the band signed to Virgin Records, but the tongue-and-lips logo remains on all post-1970 Rolling Stones releases.

Sam Cutler

Following the Hyde Park show, Cutler was asked to be the personal tour manager to The Rolling Stones during their 1969 Tour of America, which culminated in the infamous Altamont Free Concert where a young black man brandished a gun to defend himself, due to Hell's Angels anger over his date/girlfriend, who was white.

While The Rolling Stones were performing "Under My Thumb", a young black man named Meredith Hunter became involved in an altercation with some Hells Angels and drew a long-barreled revolver.

Singles 1965–1967

The second in a series of repackages by ABKCO Records, who licence The Rolling Stones' 1963–1970 recorded works, Singles 1965–1967 is the second of three successive volumes to commemorate their non-LP releases during this era.

Sitting on a fence

"Sittin' on a Fence," Rolling Stones song first released by Twice as Much

Sugar Blue

This led to him playing on several The Rolling Stones tracks ("Some Girls", "Send It to Me" and the aforementioned "Miss You").

Talk Is Cheap

Richards teamed up with Steve Jordan, who had worked on Dirty Work, and the pair wrote several new songs (one of which, "Almost Hear You Sigh", would be placed on the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels in 1989 with lyrical modifications by Jagger).

The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record

The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record is a 1976 book by music journalist Roy Carr, published by Harmony Books.

The Tin Man Was a Dreamer

Further recording was carried out in Los Angeles, prior to Hopkins' participation in the Rolling Stones' 1973 Far East tour.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

The film was the inspiration for a promotional film made for the Rolling Stones song "We Love You"; the 1967 film, directed by Peter Whitehead, featured Mick Jagger as Wilde, Keith Richards as the Marquis, and Marianne Faithfull as Bosie.

The Yuppie Pricks

Recorded at Bubble Studios by Chris 'Frenchie' Smith (ex-Sixteen Deluxe, Young Heart Attack), and mixed by Mark Hutchins (Rockland Eagles), Brokers Banquet, which parodied the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet cover art, featured a more hard-edged 'rock' influence, combined with the tongue-in-cheek lyrics and punk-fueled aggression of the first album.

Twiggs County, Georgia

Chuck Leavell, an American musician and current tree farmer in Twiggs County, Georgia, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their 1970's popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and long-time touring member of The Rolling Stones.

Ventilator Blues

The Rolling Stones have only performed the song live once, at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, B.C on opening night of the 1972 North American Tour in support of Exile on Main Street.

Ways of Hearing

The book includes short essays on a number of performers, including alternative rocker Blixa Bargeld, contemporary composer John Cale, Captain Beefheart, The Chemical Brothers, hip-hop artists Missy Elliott and Eminem, Montreal avant-garde band Godspeed You Black Emperor!, heavy metal singer-bassist Lemmy, Meatloaf (singer), Rolling Stones guitarist Cliff Richard, Pet Shop Boys and country rockers Wilco.