Mick Jagger and James Fox’s Disorienting Fever Dream
Performance, starring Mick Jagger and James Fox, thrives on disorientations, making this time-capsule movie a timeless puzzle that resonates.
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Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (excerpt)
Ikette Claudia Lennear, rumored to be the inspiration for Mick Jagger's "Brown Sugar", often felt disconnect between her identity as an African American woman and her engagement with rock. Enjoy this excerpt of cultural anthropologist Maureen Mahon's Black Diamond Queens, courtesy of Duke University Press.
Rolling Stones, Covered in Blues
On Chicago Plays the Stones, ten Chicago-based blues artists remake a dozen Rolling Stones compositions, with mixed results.
Dave Stewart’s Charmed Life, Page by Page
The Eurythmics co-founder gives an in-depth account of how he went from being a football-loving kid to one of our greatest writers and producers. And man, has he got a lot of friends.
Rock’s Bad Boy Mick Jagger Is Not Bad Enough for ‘Ned Kelly’
Tony Richardson’s 1970 Down Under biopic Ned Kelly provides lovingly filmed scenery–and Mick Jagger–but he seldom seems to be the “wild colonial boy”.
‘Ain’t it Time We Said Goodbye’ Is a Reader’s Digest-like Condensation of the Rolling Stones Story
Veteran Stones scribe Robert Greenfield captures a band, and its key relationship, in turmoil and on the cusp of change.
Pete Townshend’s ‘Who I Am’ Answers Age-Old Question with Aplomb
This is Pete Townshend laid bare; offering us tales from the cradle to the hearing aid.