Ronnie Spector‘s acclaimed 1990 memoir Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness has long been out of print — but the legendary singer was revising the book in the weeks before her death due to cancer at age 78 on Jan. 12, according to publisher Henry Holt, …
Read More »Who Knew We Needed This Unseen Altamont Footage So Badly?
Grace Slick in a blue velvet suit. Gram Parsons bashing a tambourine. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young appearing like they like each other. Altamont will be forever known as the death of the Sixties, but the Library of Congress just made it a little sunnier with previously unreleased footage. The …
Read More »Keith Richards on His New Box Set, the Next Stones LP and Who Really Inspired 'You Don't Move Me'
It’s late September, and Keith Richards is back at work after a six-month pause. He boasts that his temperature clocked in at 97.8 degrees (“I’m chilling,” he says) when he arrived at Manhattan’s Germano Studios to resume work on the Rolling Stones‘ next album. “I realized coming into the studio …
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