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The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The original line-up consisted of Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Jones left the less than a month prior to his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and has been on guitar in tandem with Richards ever since, following Wymans departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. Other touring keyboardists for the band have been Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, the band was first led by Jones, but after teaming as the bands songwriters, Jagger and Richards assumed leadership while Jones dealt with legal and personal troubles. The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in the US in 1964, and identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the group began a period of musical experimentation in the mid-1960s that peaked with the psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request. During this period, they were first introduced on stage as The Worlds Greatest Rock, the band continued to release commercially successful records in the 1970s and sold many albums, including Some Girls and Tattoo You, which were their most popular albums worldwide. From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split, however, they managed to patch up their friendship in 1987. They separated temporarily to work on projects and experienced a comeback with Steel Wheels. Since the 1990s, new recorded material from the group has been increasingly less well-received, despite this, the Rolling Stones have continued to be a huge attraction on the live circuit, with stadium tours in the 1990s and 2000s. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time, Voodoo Lounge Tour, Bridges to Babylon Tour, Licks Tour and A Bigger Bang Tour. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and their estimated album sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums,18 live albums and numerous compilations, Let It Bleed was their first of five consecutive number one studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers was the first of eight number one studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart, in 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, Jagger had formed a garage band with Dick Taylor, mainly playing Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin Wolf and Bo Diddley material. Jagger met Richards again in 1960 on platform two of Dartford railway station, the Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records that Jagger carried revealed a common interest that prompted their musical partnership
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Forty Licks
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Forty Licks is a double compilation album by The Rolling Stones. Four new songs are included on the second disc, the album was a commercial success, it reached No.2 on both UK & US charts and went on to sell over 7.5 million copies worldwide. Concurrently with the release, the Stones embarked on the successful, year-long international Licks Tour. Forty Licks has received positive reviews from music critics. AllMusics Stephen Thomas Erlewine felt that Forty Licks was similar to ELV1S,30 #1 Hits because both were influenced by The Beatles 1, but that Forty Licks had a concept than ELV1S. CANOE also felt that most fans already owned most of the songs on the album, rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone felt that there were several songs missing from the album, but that the compilation was exciting and the four new songs were much better than their other recent work. Stylus magazines Colin McElligatt felt that the band needed an all-inclusive collection, all tracks written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted
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No Security Tour
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The No Security Tour was a Rolling Stones concert tour to promote the concert album No Security. The tour spanned over 40 shows in North America and Europe in 1999 and they decided to do a tour with crowds less than 20,000 after the worldwide enormous Bridges to Babylon Tour with crowds of up to 100,000. The band insisted on smaller venues, with special effects, concentrating on the music. The tour supported their new album No Security – a live album of Bridges to Babylon Tour recordings, after rehearsing for twelve days in San Francisco, the No Security Tour began on 26 January 1999 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California. This set list is representative of the performance in Washington, D. C. on 7 March 1999 and it does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour
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A Bigger Bang (concert tour)
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A Bigger Bang was a worldwide concert tour by The Rolling Stones which took place between August 2005 and August 2007, in support of their album A Bigger Bang. It was the highest grossing tour of all time at that time and it earned $558,255,524, and now lies second, behind only U2s 2009 to 2011 U2360 Tour. In 2005, the Stones announced plans for world tour starting 21 August at a press conference. The A Bigger Bang Tour was expected to include dates throughout the United States and Canada before going to South America, Asia, during the Q&A, Mick Jagger told reporters that it would not necessarily be their last tour. All rehearsals for the tour took place in Toronto, Ontario, in a school, for the full stage rehearsals. In keeping with tradition, the Rolling Stones performed a surprise show on 10 August 2005 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre before an audience of 1,000. The tour had its start on 21 August 2005 with two shows at historic Fenway Park in Boston. At the end of 2005, it was announced by tour producer Michael Cohl that the A Bigger Bang Tour had grossed a record-shattering $162 million since opening at Fenway Park. This broke the previous North American record, held by the Stones themselves for their own 1994/1995 Voodoo Lounge Tour, in terms of revenue, the A Bigger Bang Tour was the largest tour in North America. The second largest was the Stones 1997/1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour, on 1 February 2006, The Stones played their first concert at the Baltimore Arena since 1969, the second smallest venue they have played for the entire tour. Their most intimate performance, save the surprise Phoenix show in Toronto, was in Radio City Music Hall on 14 March 2006 and this benefit concert was their only performance at the venue to date. Other intimate venues The Stones played during the tour was the Beacon Theater in New York City. While on the American leg of the tour, on 5 February 2006 the Stones played Start Me Up, Rough Justice, before performing Satisfaction, Jagger made an uncharacteristic comment on their longevity, This one we couldve done for Super Bowl I. Jagger was asked to leave out two sexually suggestive lyrics, the audio on his microphone was lowered twice for the two requested omissions, but Jagger still sang those lyrics. The outstanding scale of the tour was realised on 18 February 2006 when the Stones played a concert on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. The free concert was broadcast on television and broke records as the largest rock concert of all time. There were a reported 2 million people present on the beach, a special bridge was constructed for the band to cross from the stage to the hotel safely. Three days after the event, U2 played in São Paulo
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Concert tour
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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Voodoo Lounge Tour
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The Voodoo Lounge Tour was a worldwide concert tour by The Rolling Stones to promote their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge. This was their first tour without bassist Bill Wyman, and their first with touring bassist Darryl Jones, the tour grossed $320 million, replacing Pink Floyds Division Bell tour as the highest grossing of any artist at that time. This was subsequently overtaken by a few tours, but it remains The Rolling Stones second highest grossing tour behind their 2005–2007 A Bigger Bang Tour. There were lots of hacks out there who said we couldnt do it anymore, but maybe what they meant was they couldnt do it anymore. Anyway, once we started playing, all that died down and you can talk about it and talk about it – but, once were onstage, the question is answered. Production design was by Mark Fisher, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, graphic design and video animation was by Mark Norton. Total attendance 6.5 million. C. Its welded quite naturally with the old stuff, so when you hear Sparks Will Fly next to Tumbling Dice, it makes sense – its all Stones shit. Other songs played, No Expectations All Down the Line Wild Horses Its All Over Now Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Angie Stop Breaking Down Who Do You Love
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Set list
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A set list, or setlist, is a document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play, or has played, during a specific concert performance. Hand-written or printed, on paper, cardboard, or laminate, it is taped to the stage. Music fans also refer to the set list in the sense of what a performing artist chooses to play. For many artists, the set list is played for every performance on a given concert tour. For others this is not necessarily the case, and for their fan bases who follow the artist around on tour. The Grateful Dead are one example, having never played the set list twice in the bands entire existence. Web sites exist to track and report statistics on the set lists of those artists who change them from night to night. Roadies sometimes keep the set lists for themselves, and sell them up on eBay, instances of deviations of the actual show from the planned one are then spotted, these are called audibles after the American football term
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Toronto
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Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. With a population of 2,731,571, it is the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture. Aboriginal peoples have inhabited the area now known as Toronto for thousands of years, the city itself is situated on the southern terminus of an ancient Aboriginal trail leading north to Lake Simcoe, used by the Wyandot, Iroquois, and the Mississauga. Permanent European settlement began in the 1790s, after the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase of 1787, the British established the town of York, and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York, York was renamed and incorporated as the city of Toronto in 1834, and became the capital of the province of Ontario during the Canadian Confederation in 1867. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities at various times in its history to its current area of 630.2 km2. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canadas major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Toronto is known for its skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto and this refers to the northern end of what is now Lake Simcoe, where the Huron had planted tree saplings to corral fish. A portage route from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron running through this point, in the 1660s, the Iroquois established two villages within what is today Toronto, Ganatsekwyagon on the banks of the Rouge River and Teiaiagonon the banks of the Humber River. By 1701, the Mississauga had displaced the Iroquois, who abandoned the Toronto area at the end of the Beaver Wars, French traders founded Fort Rouillé on the current Exhibition grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. During the American Revolutionary War, the region saw an influx of British settlers as United Empire Loyalists fled for the British-controlled lands north of Lake Ontario, the new province of Upper Canada was in the process of creation and needed a capital. Dorchester intended the location to be named Toronto, in 1793, Governor John Graves Simcoe established the town of York on the Toronto Purchase lands, instead naming it after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Simcoe decided to move the Upper Canada capital from Newark to York, the York garrison was constructed at the entrance of the towns natural harbour, sheltered by a long sandbar peninsula. The towns settlement formed at the end of the harbour behind the peninsula, near the present-day intersection of Parliament Street. In 1813, as part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the towns capture, the surrender of the town was negotiated by John Strachan. US soldiers destroyed much of the garrison and set fire to the parliament buildings during their five-day occupation, the sacking of York was a primary motivation for the Burning of Washington by British troops later in the war
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Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto
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Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto was a benefit rock concert that was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 30,2003. It was also known as Toronto Rocks, Stars 4 SARS, SARSStock, SARSfest, SARS-a-palooza, the SARS concert, or, more descriptively, The Rolling Stones SARS Benefit Concert. Estimated to have between 450,000 and 500,000 people attending the concert, it is the largest outdoor ticketed event in Canadian history, and one of the largest in North American history. It was organized in about a month, upon the suggestion of headliners The Rolling Stones, when The Rolling Stones announced the concert, Toronto was still under a SARS warning from the World Health Organization. The publicity garnered by the SARS outbreak led to a downturn in Torontos tourism industry, the concert was held at Downsview Park in northern Toronto, a former military base which also accommodated 800,000 people when Pope John Paul II visited the city in 2002. The concert was hosted by actor/singer Dan Aykroyd, and vendors sold Alberta beef in support of the Canadian beef industry, North York General Hospital, which had been hit the hardest by the SARS outbreak in previous months, provided emergency on-site hospital services. The Toronto water department was supposed to provide free water by tapping the groundwater at the site. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and cable music station MuchMoreMusic provided coverage of parts of the concert throughout the day, each band performed for 15–20 minutes. Justin Timberlake was booed by the crowd, which was anticipating the harder-rocking second half of the concert, throughout his performance he had to dodge water bottles, toilet paper, muffins, and other items thrown by the audience. He later returned to duet with Mick Jagger on Miss You, the crowd was harangued by a visibly angry Keith Richards. Rush was the last band to be added to the lineup, according to drummer, Neil Peart, they more-or-less felt pressured to perform because of Toronto being their hometown, although they are not the type to do one-off concert performances. Peart later confessed to not feeling anything like he looked while performing, a documentary DVD entitled Toronto Rocks was released in 2004, showing highlights of the event. List of historic rock festivals Hong Kong Harbour Fest, a event held in Hong Kong to revive the economy after SARS. The Stones rock 450,000 fans in T. O, CBC Coverage Toronto Rocks at the Internet Movie Database
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E-Trade
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E-Trade Financial Corporation is a financial services company headquartered in New York City. It is an online discount stock brokerage firm for self-directed investors, investors can buy and sell such securities as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds via electronic trading platforms or by phone. E-Trade Financial also provides banking services to investors, such as sweep deposits. As of December 31,2016, the company had 3.5 million brokerage accounts, in 2016, the company processed 164,134 daily average revenue trades. The companys primary offices are in Alpharetta, Georgia, Jersey City, New Jersey, Arlington, Virginia, Sandy, Utah, Menlo Park, California, and New York City. In 1982, William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded TradePlus in Palo Alto, in 1991 Porter and Newcomb founded a new company, E-Trade Securities, Inc. with several hundred thousand dollars of startup capital from TradePlus. E*Trade offered its services via America Online and Compuserve. In 1994 its revenues neared $11 million, up from $850,000 in 1992, by June 30,1996, the company had 73,000 customers and processed 8,000 trades per day, with quarterly revenue of $15 million. In August 1996, the company executed an initial public offering, in 2001, the company acquired Web Street Securities, a publicly traded online brokerage firm, for $45 million in stock. Web Street had offices in Beverly Hills, Boston, Denver, in 2003, Toronto-Dominion Bank held talks to merge its TD Waterhouse discount brokerage with E*Trade, but the two sides could not come to an agreement over control of the merged entity. TD Waterhouse wound up merging with Ameritrade to form TD Ameritrade, after the merger, E*Trade continued talks to merge with TD Ameritrade but the two sides could not agree on price and governance rights. In August 2005, E*Trade Financial acquired Harrisdirect, formerly a discount brokerage service of Bank of Montreal, two months later, E*Trade acquired Brown & Company, formerly a discount brokerage service of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.6 billion in cash. In July 2007, Etrade Australia, which was a separately operated company owned 6% by E*Trade Financial, was purchased by Australian ANZ Bank for $432 million and this resulted in a net $2.2 billion reduction in assets on the companys balance sheet. Citadel received a seat on E-Trade Financials Board of Directors and Mitch Caplan resigned as E-Trades CEO. Although E-Trades management admitted that the deal was costly for the company, it removed the risk associated with the subprime investments, in November 2007, E*Trade revoked the brand name license from SBI E*Trade Securities in Japan. In March 2008, E*Trade named Donald Layton, formerly JPMorgan Chase vice chairman, Layton had joined E*Trades board of directors in November 2007, at the same time as the Citadel deal. In July 2008, E*Trade sold its Canadian division to Scotiabank for CAD$444 million, in December 2009, Robert Druskin, a former chief operating officer of Citigroup Inc. was named interim CEO and chairman. The company also announced it would seek approval for a 1-for-10 reverse stock split
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Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones song)
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Brown Sugar is a song by The Rolling Stones. It is the track and lead single from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No.495 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the song was written by Jagger with Marsha Hunt in mind, Hunt was Jaggers secret girlfriend and mother of his first child Karis. It is also claimed it was written with Claudia Lennear in mind, Lennear made this claim on BBCs Radio 4, saying that it was written with her in mind because at the time when it was written, Mick Jagger used to hang around with her. In the documentary film Gimme Shelter, a mix of the song is played back to the band while they relax in a hotel in Alabama. In the liner notes to the 1993 compilation album Jump Back, Jagger says, The lyric was all to do with the combination of drugs. This song was a very instant thing, a high point. The song is in compound AABA form, in the Rolling Stone interview with Jagger, he spoke at length about the song, its inspiration and success — including claiming credit for writing the lyrics. He attributed the success of the song to a good groove, after noting that the lyrics could mean so many lewd subjects, he again noted that the combination of those subjects, the lyrical ambiguity was partially why the song was considered successful. God knows what Im on about on that song, All the nasty subjects in one go. I never would write that song now, when Jann Wenner asked him why, Jagger replied, I would probably censor myself. Id think, Oh God, I cant, I cant just write raw like that. The lyrical subject matter has often been a point of interest, an alternative version was recorded on 18 December 1970, at Olympic Studios in London, after a birthday party for Richards. It features appearances by Al Kooper on piano, and Eric Clapton on slide guitar, Richards considered releasing this version on Sticky Fingers, mostly for its more spontaneous atmosphere, but decided on the original. The alternative version, which had previously been only on bootleg recordings, was released in June 2015 on the Deluxe. To promote the song, they performed on Top of the Pops with the performance taped sometime around late March 1971, in the US, Billboard ranked it as the No.16 song for 1971. In the UK the single was issued in mono using a now-rarely heard bespoke mono mix. This mono mix has never used on any compilation
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Tumbling Dice
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Tumbling Dice is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for The Rolling Stones 1972 double album Exile on Main St. and was the albums first single. The single peaked at number 7 on the US charts and number 5 in the UK, the lyrics tell the story of a gambler who cannot remain faithful to any woman. The music has a blues boogie-woogie rhythm, Tumbling Dice has been performed in many of the bands concerts. Cover versions of Tumbling Dice have been created in diverse styles as reggae, bluegrass. An updated version from a female perspective was a Top 40 hit single for Linda Ronstadt in 1978, an early version of Tumbling Dice, called Good Time Women, was recorded in 1970 during the sessions for Exile on Main Street. The song is a bluesy boogie-woogie, heavy on Ian Stewarts piano work, the two songs are similar in structure in that they have the same chord progression and a similar melody. Also, Jagger sings the hook to the accompaniment of Taylors lone lead guitar, however, Good Time Women lacked an opening riff, a background choir and the beat which propels the grove of Tumbling Dice. Tumbling Dice was recorded in the basement of the chateau Villa Nellcôte, near Villefranche-sur-Mer, the recording schedule for Exile on Main St. had the band sleeping all day and recording with whoever was around at night. The basic track of the song was recorded on 3 August 1971, Mick Taylor, the Rolling Stones second guitarist, played bass on the track, due to bassist Bill Wymans absence that night, and Mick Jagger plays guitar. In Rolling With the Stones, Bill Wyman said, On 3 August we worked on Good Time Woman, I hung around until 3am then left. Jagger said of the lyrics, Its weird where your lyric things come from, on Tumbling Dice, I sat down with the house keeper and talked to her about gambling. She liked to play dice and I really didnt know much about it and he concluded, Tumbling Dice was written to fit Keiths riff. Its about gambling and love, an old blues trick, recording engineer Andy Johns said, I know we had a hundred reels of tape on the basic track. That was a song, but it was really like pulling teeth. It just went on and on and on, Some have said that it may have taken as many as 150 takes to get the basic track of the song. The mixing of the album was also difficult, Jagger has never liked the final mix of the song. In an interview with Melody Maker, Jagger said, I think they used the wrong mix for that one, the single was released on 14 April 1972. Tumbling Dice peaked at number 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and it was the Rolling Stones 23rd single in the United States and their 17th in the United Kingdom
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Don't Stop (The Rolling Stones song)
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Dont Stop is a single by rock and roll band The Rolling Stones featured on their 2002 compilation album Forty Licks. Credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, Dont Stop was largely the work of Jagger, writing began during Jaggers preparations for his 2001 album Goddess in the Doorway. It might be useful in the coming months, but Ill leave it for now. On the recording, Richards said at the time, basically all Mick and he had the song when we got to Paris to record. It was a matter of me finding the guitar licks to go behind the song and we dont see a lot of each other. I live in America, he lives in England, so when we get together, we see what ideas each has got, Im stuck on the bridge. Well, I have this bit that might work, a lot of what Mick and I do is fixing and touching up, writing the song in bits, assembling it on the spot. In Dont Stop, my job was the fairy dust, with Jagger on lead vocals, both Richards and Ronnie Wood accompany on guitars. Dont Stop is one of the many later Stones songs to feature Jagger on rhythm guitar, Wood provides the two solos near the middle and at the end. Charlie Watts plays drums, Darryl Jones bass, and Chuck Leavell keyboards, released on 16 December 2002, Dont Stop reached number 36 on UK Top 75 Singles and number 21 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was performed heavily during the 2002–2003 Licks Tour in support of Forty Licks, Dont Stop –3,29 Dont Stop –4,00 Miss You –8,35 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Hot Stuff (The Rolling Stones song)
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Hot Stuff is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones off their 1976 album Black and Blue. Brown on percussion, Bill Wyman adding a funky bassline, and extensive use of the Wah-wah pedal by guest guitarist Harvey Mandel, billy Preston plays piano on the recording and contributes backing vocals along with Richards and Wood. The video, however, features Wood on guitar playing Mandels part, the second and final single from Black and Blue Hot Stuff was not as successful as its predecessor, reaching #49 in the United States. In the Stephen King novel Rage, the song is played at a party, was the introduction song used by professional wrestler Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Honky Tonk Women
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Honky Tonk Women is a 1969 hit song by The Rolling Stones. Released as a single release, on 4 July 1969 in the United Kingdom. I met a gin soaked bar-room queen in Memphis Im sittin in a bar, tippin a jar in Jackson The band initially recorded the track called Country Honk, Brian Jones was present during these sessions and may have played on the first handful of takes and demos. It was his last recording session with the band, the song was transformed into the familiar electric, riff-based hit single Honky Tonk Women sometime in the spring of 1969, prior to Mick Taylors joining the group. In an interview in the magazine Crawdaddy, richards credits Taylor for influencing the track. The song was written as a real Hank Williams/Jimmie Rodgers/1930s country song. And it got turned around to this other thing by Mick Taylor, however, in 1979 Taylor recalled it this way, I definitely added something to Honky Tonk Women, but it was more or less complete by the time I arrived and did my overdubs. Honky Tonk Women is distinctive as it not with a guitar riff. The Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller performed the cowbell for the recording, the concert rendition of Honky Tonk Women on Get Yer Ya-Yas Out. Differs significantly from the hit, with a markedly dissimilar guitar introduction. During the North American leg of the 1989 Steel Wheels tour, there was an animated live visual for this song when it was performed in concert around 2002 and 2003. It featured a woman riding on the Rolling Stones tongue who was seen in the beginning of the concert. The single was released in the UK the day after the death of founding member Brian Jones where it remained on the charts for 5 weeks peaking at No.1 and you Cant Always Get What You Want was the singles B-side. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks from 23 August 1969 and it was later released on the compilation album Through the Past, Darkly in September. Billboard ranked it as the No.4 song overall for 1969, at the time of its release Rolling Stone hailed Honky Tonk Women as likely the strongest three minutes of rock and roll yet released in 1969. It was ranked No.116 on the list of Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in April 2010, the song was later put into the track listing for the video game Band Hero. Concert versions of Honky Tonk Women are included on the albums Get Yer Ya-Yas Out, love You Live, Live Licks, Sweet Summer Sun, Hyde Park Live, and Totally Stripped. Ike & Tina Turner covered the song on their 1969 album, waylon Jennings covered the song on his 1970 LP Singer of Sad Songs
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Route 66 (song)
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Route 66 is a popular rhythm and blues standard, composed in 1946 by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The song uses a twelve-bar blues arrangement and the follow the path of U. S. Route 66. Nat King Cole, as the King Cole Trio, first recorded the song the year and it became a hit, appearing on Billboard magazines R&B. Another version to reach the Billboard charts was that recorded by Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters on May 11,1946, the idea for the song came to Troup on a cross-country drive from Pennsylvania to California. Troup wanted to try his hand as a Hollywood songwriter, so he and his wife, Cynthia, packed up their 1941 Buick, the trip began on US40 and continued along US66 to the California coast. Troup initially considered writing a tune about US40, but Cynthia suggested the title Get Your Kicks on Route 66, the song was composed on the ten-day journey, and completed by referencing maps when the couple arrived in Los Angeles. The lyrics read as a mini-travelogue about the major stops along the route, listing several cities and towns through which Route 66 passes, viz. St Louis, Joplin, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Amarillo, Texas, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, Winona, Arizona, Kingman, Arizona, Barstow, California, and San Bernardino, California. Many artists who have covered the tune over the years have changed the lyrics, usually to It goes to St. Louis. Then continuing on with Oklahoma City and so on, of the eight states through which the actual route passes, only Kansas and its cities—US66 spends just eleven miles inside the state’s southeast corner—are not mentioned by the song. Chuck Berry famously mispronounces Barstow to rhyme with cow instead of pronouncing it to rhyme with go. Route 66 was first recorded in 1946 by Nat King Cole, Cole later re-recorded the tune in 1956 and 1961. The song has become a standard and has been recorded by numerous artists, the version recorded by Perry Como in 1959 is more lyrically complete, including the seldom-heard second verse and also the introductory verse. Chuck Berrys version was closest to its R&B roots, with jazz overtones, two of the leading British Invasion bands included Route 66 on their debut albums, Them and the Rolling Stones. Michael Martin Murphey covered the song on his 1989 album Land of Enchantment and his version was released as a single in 1990 and peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Little Willie Littlefield recorded a version for his 1997 album The Red One. Natalie Coles version of the song was one of many California-related songs played throughout Sunshine Plaza in the original Disney California Adventure, the song is also played in the 2006 Pixar film Cars and is sung at the end of the film RV, which was released the same year. Performance Artist Kalup Linzy performed the song on General Hospital in 2010
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Little Queenie
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Little Queenie is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry. It appeared on the 1959 album Chuck Berry Is on Top and was released as a double A-side with Almost Grown, Berry performed the song in the movies Go, Johnny Go. and Hail. It has been covered by artists, including the Beatles. One year earlier Berry had released Run Rudolph Run, a Christmas song with the same melody,7 Vinyl Almost Grown Little Queenie The song peaked at number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Allmusic calls the song an incredible rock & roll anthem and one of the greatest dance/sex ritualistic classics and it is included several of Berrys compilation albums, including The Great Twenty-Eight and Chuck Berrys Golden Decade. According to Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicles, the Beatles performed Little Queenie live from at least 1960 until 1963 with Paul McCartney on lead vocal, an audience recording of it was made and is on Live. at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany,1962. Per author Doug Sulpy in Drugs, Divorce and Slipping Image during the sessions for the album Get Back John Lennon sang the lead vocal on a fairly brief version of it. Paul McCartney and Wings guitarist Denny Laine recorded a jam of it the early 1970s. The Rolling Stones frequently performed the live, a version recorded in November 1969 at Madison Square Garden is on the album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out. Little Queenie is mentioned in Dance Franny Dance, a hit in 1964 for the Texas band the Floyd Dakil Combo, Shes our Little Queenie. The song helped to inspire Marc Bolan to write the T, rex song Get It On, which quotes Little Queenie as it fades out, And meanwhile, Im still thinking
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
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You Cant Always Get What You Want is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in its 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Although it was the track, You Cant Always Get What You Want was the first song recorded for the album. You Cant Always Get What You Want was recorded on 16 and 17 November 1968 at Olympic Sound Studios in London and it features the London Bach Choir opening the song, highlighting throughout, and bringing it to its conclusion. Jimmy Miller, the Stones producer at the time, plays drums on this instead of Charlie Watts. Al Kooper plays piano and organ, as well as the French horn intro, of the song, Jagger said, You Cant Always Get What You Want was something I just played on the acoustic guitar—one of those bedroom songs. It proved to be difficult to record because Charlie couldnt play the groove. Id also had this idea of having a choir, probably a gospel choir, on the track, jack Nitzsche, or somebody, said that we could get the London Bach Choir and we said, That will be a laugh. Jagger said in 1969, I liked the way the Beatles did that with Hey Jude, the orchestra was not just to cover everything up—it was something extra. We may do something like that on the next album, the three verses address the major topics of the 1960s, love, politics, and drugs. Each verse captures the essence of the optimism and eventual disillusion. Unterberger concludes, of the song, Much has been made of the reflecting the end of the overlong party that was the 1960s. Thats a valid interpretation, but it should also be pointed out that also a uplifting and reassuring quality to the melody. This is particularly true of the key lyrical hook, when we are reminded that we cant always get what we want, the song was originally released on the B-side of Honky Tonk Women in July 1969. to which the audience replies Cherry red. Live recordings appear on the albums Love You Live, Flashpoint, Live Licks, the 2014 revival on Broadway added the line, But If You Try Sometimes You Just Might Find You Get What You Nietzsche. The song was performed live with members of Voce Chamber Choir and London Youth Choir for the Stones 2012 reunion shows in London, November 25, the same choir also performed on the track at Glastonbury and two performances at Hyde Park in 2013. Donald Trump used the song at appearances in 2016. The Stones have publicly disapproved of Trumps use of their music, in support of this initiative, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards agreed to waive their royalties from the release
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Jumpin' Jack Flash
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Jumpin Jack Flash is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1968. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, recording on Jumpin Jack Flash began during the Beggars Banquet sessions of 1968, regarding the songs distinctive sound, guitarist Richards has said, I used a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic tuned to open D, six string. Open D or open E, which is the same thing – same intervals –, then there was a capo on it, to get that really tight sound. And there was another guitar over the top of that, I learned that from somebody in George Jones band in San Antonio in 1964. The high-strung guitar was an acoustic, too, both acoustics were put through a Philips cassette recorder. Just jam the mic right in the guitar and play it back through an extension speaker, Richards has stated that he and Jagger wrote the lyrics while staying at Richards country house, where they were awoken one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. When Jagger asked what the noise was, Richards responded, Oh, the rest of the lyrics evolved from there. Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone that the song out of all the acid of Satanic Majesties. Its about having a time and getting out. Just a metaphor for getting out of all the acid things, and in a 1968 interview, Brian Jones described it as getting back to. The funky, essential essence following the psychedelia of Their Satanic Majesties Request, in his autobiography, Stone Alone, Bill Wyman has said that he came up with the songs distinctive main guitar riff on a piano without being credited for it. It topped the US Cashbox chart for one week, the first Rolling Stones album on which the song appeared was their 1969 compilation album, Through the Past, Darkly, one year after the single was released. The Rolling Stones have played Jumpin Jack Flash during every tour since its release and it ranks as the song the band has played in concert most frequently, and has appeared on the concert albums Get Yer Ya-Yas Out. Jones is heard clearly, mixing with Richardss lead throughout the song, the intro is not usually played in concert and instead the song begins with the main riff. The open E or open D tuning of the guitar on the studio recording has also not been replicated in concert. Richards is particularly fond of the main riff, often crediting it as his favorite among all of his most revered guitar riffs. In March 2005, Q magazine placed Jumpin Jack Flash at number 2 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, in 2004, Rolling Stone rated the song 124th on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. VH1 placed it at 65 on its show 100 Greatest Rock Songs, two promotional videos were made in May 1968, one featuring a live performance, another showcasing the band lip-syncing, with Jones, Jagger and Watts donning makeup
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Paint It Black
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Paint It Black is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, written by the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a single on 6 May 1966. It was later included as the track to the US version of their 1966 album. Paint It Black reached number one in both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, the song became The Rolling Stones third number one hit single in the US and sixth in the UK. The songs lyrics are, for the most part, meant to describe bleakness, initially, Paint It Black was written as a standard pop arrangement, humorously compared by Mick Jagger to Songs for Jewish weddings. The song sets the scene of a partner at a funeral. The song itself came to fruition when rhythm guitarist Brian Jones took an interest in Moroccan music and it was their first song to feature a sitar instrumental. This is evident in the Aftermath sessions, where, for the first time, in addition, Brian Jones, overshadowed by Jagger and Richards, grew bored with attempting to write songs, as well as conventional guitar melodies. To alleviate the boredom, Jones explored eastern instruments, more specifically the sitar, to bolster the groups musical texture, Jones had a background with the sitar as early as 1961, and talked at length about the technicalities of playing the instrument. A natural multi-instrumentalist, Jones was able to develop a tune from the sitar in an amount of time, largely due to his studies under Ravi Shankars disciple. The master take of Paint It Black was recorded on 8 March 1966, at RCA Studios in Los Angeles, however, while twiddling with a Hammond organ, Bill Wyman searched for a heavier bass sound, while playing the part on his knees. Wymans playing clicked with the group, and inspired the up-tempo, by all accounts, the sitar was brought into the mix when Harihar Rao happened to walk in the studio with the instrument in hand. The sitar was featured in the riff, which is considered as Joness most accomplished. Jones outright denied any connection, saying it was utter rubbish, nonetheless, Jones sitar playing immediately became influential in developing a whole subgenre of minor-key psychedelic music. Coupled with this striking instrumental motif, it is complemented by Jaggers droning, in addition, Paint It Black was highlighted by Wymans heavy bass, Charlie Wattss low-pitch drumming, and Richards bolero-driven acoustic guitar outro. Soon after, Richards noted that the conclusion of the track was over-recorded, Paint It Black was released to the US on 7 May 1966, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 during a stay of 11 weeks. In the UK, the song was released on 13 May 1966 and it was originally released as Paint It, Black, the comma being an error by Decca Records, but, nonetheless, stirred controversy among fans over its racial interpretation. Upon further reissues to the UK in 1990 and 2007, Paint It Black charted at number 61 and 70, respectively. Paint It Black has appeared on numerous Stones compilations, including Hot Rocks 1964-1971,30 Greatest Hits, Singles Collection, The London Years, Forty Licks, and GRRR
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Street Fighting Man
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Street Fighting Man is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Called the bands most political song, Rolling Stone ranked the song #301 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, originally titled and recorded as Did Everyone Pay Their Dues. Containing the same music but very different lyrics, Street Fighting Man is known as one of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards most politically inclined works to date. Jagger allegedly wrote it about Tariq Ali after he attended a 1968 anti-war rally at Londons US embassy and he also found inspiration in the rising violence among student rioters on Pariss Left Bank, the precursor to a period of civil unrest in May 1968. On the writing, Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner in Rolling Stone, in his review, Richie Unterberger says of the song. its a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses, Mick Jaggers typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution. Or perhaps they were even declaring indifference to the tumult, in 1976, Roy Carr assessed it as a great summer street-corner rock anthem on the same echelon as Summer in the City, Summertime Blues, and Dancing in the Street. Recording on Street Fighting Man took place at Olympic Sound Studios from April until May 1968, with Jagger on lead vocals and both he and Richards on backing, Brian Jones performs the songs distinctive sitar and also tamboura. Richards plays the acoustic guitars as well as bass, the latter being the only electric instrument on the track. Charlie Watts performs drums while Nicky Hopkins performs the piano which is most distinctly heard during the outro. Shehnai is performed on the track by Dave Mason, on the earlier, unreleased Did Everybody Pay Their Dues version, Rick Grech played a very prominent electric viola. Watts said in 2003, Street Fighting Man was recorded on Keiths cassette with a 1930s toy drum kit called a London Jazz Kit Set, which I bought in a shop. It came in a suitcase, and there were wire brackets you put the drums in. The snare drum was fantastic because it had a thin skin with a snare right underneath. Keith loved playing with the early cassette machines because they would overload, and we usually played in one of the bedrooms on tour. Keith would be sitting on a cushion playing a guitar and the kit was a way of getting close to him. The drums were really loud compared to the guitar and the pitch of them would go right through the sound. Youd always have a great backbeat, on the recording process itself, Richards remembered, The basic track of that was done on a mono cassette with very distorted overrecording, on a Phillips with no limiters
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Like a Rolling Stone
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Like a Rolling Stone is a 1965 song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Its confrontational lyrics originated in a piece of verse Dylan wrote in June 1965. Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus, like a Rolling Stone was recorded a few weeks later as part of the sessions for the forthcoming album Highway 61 Revisited. During a difficult two-day preproduction, Dylan struggled to find the essence of the song, a breakthrough was made when it was tried in a rock music format, and rookie session musician Al Kooper improvised the organ riff for which the track is known. However, Columbia Records was unhappy with both the length at over six minutes and its heavy electric sound, and was hesitant to release it. It was only when a later a copy was leaked to a new popular music club. Although radio stations were reluctant to play such a long track, critics have described the track as revolutionary in its combination of different musical elements, the youthful, cynical sound of Dylans voice, and the directness of the question How does it feel. Like a Rolling Stone transformed Dylans image from folk singer to rock star, Rolling Stone magazine listed the song at number one in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. The song has been covered by artists, from The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Rolling Stones to The Wailers. At an auction in 2014, Dylans handwritten lyrics to the song fetched $2 million, in a 1966 Playboy interview, he described his dissatisfaction, Last spring, I guess I was going to quit singing. I was very drained, and the way things were going, but Like a Rolling Stone changed it all. I mean it was something that I myself could dig and its very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself dont dig you. The song grew out of a piece of verse. In 1966, Dylan described its genesis to journalist Jules Siegel and it wasnt called anything, just a rhythm thing on paper all about my steady hatred directed at some point that was honest. In the end it wasnt hatred, it was telling someone something they didnt know, I had never thought of it as a song, until one day I was at the piano, and on the paper it was singing, How does it feel. In a slow pace, in the utmost of slow motion. During 1965, Dylan composed prose, poems, and songs by typing incessantly, footage in Dont Look Back of Dylan in his suite at Londons Savoy Hotel captures this process. However, Dylan told two interviewers that Like a Rolling Stone began as a piece of vomit that later acquired musical form
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You Got Me Rocking
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You Got Me Rocking is a song by the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, on their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge. The song received remixes by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne, changed to a straightforward rocker in the vein of Start Me Up, the song quickly evolved into a powerful rock single as Richards made the transition from piano to guitar. Recording on You Got Me Rocking lasted from mid-summer to early winter 1993, the song was released as a single in the UK in September 1994, where it reached number 23. It was also released as a single in the US but only reached a failing number 113 in 1995, the B-side is the little-known Jump on Top of Me which also appears on the soundtrack to Prêt-à-Porter. You Got Me Rocking appeared on the soundtrack to The Replacements in 2000 and you Got Me Rocking is notable as it remains one of the Stones most enduring live songs, a rarity for a late album song. The song was performed some fifty times during the 2005–2006 A Bigger Bang Tour, a recording from the 1997–1998 Bridges to Babylon Tour opened the 1998 live album No Security. It was also included on the Stones 2002 career retrospective, Forty Licks
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Angie (song)
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Angie is a song by the rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup. The songs distinctive piano accompaniment, written by Richards, was played on the album by Nicky Hopkins, the strings on the piece were arranged by Nicky Harrison. An unusual feature of the recording is that singer Mick Jaggers vocal guide track is faintly audible throughout the song. Released as a single in August 1973, Angie went straight to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and reached No.5 on the UK singles chart. The song was also a No.1 hit in both Canada and Australia for five weeks each and topped the charts in countries throughout Europe. Because of the length, some radio stations made edits to shorten it to 3 minutes, omitting the longer coda. There was speculation that the song was about David Bowies first wife Angela, the actress Angie Dickinson, Keith Richards newborn daughter Dandelion Angela, and others. In 1993, in an interview for the notes to the Rolling Stones compilation album Jump Back, The Best of The Rolling Stones. According to NME, Jaggers contributions to the referred to his breakup with Marianne Faithfull. Concert renditions were released on the albums Stripped and Live Licks, in the documentary Protagonist, the former German terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein remarks that the song inspired him to adopt Angie as the moniker he used during his militant activities in the 1970s. In 2005, the German political party CDU used the song in its campaign for Angela Merkel. Two music videos were shot to promote the song, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Miss You (The Rolling Stones song)
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Miss You is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It was released as a single by The Rolling Stones on Rolling Stones Records in May 1978, one month in advance of their album Some Girls, an extended version, called the Special Disco Version, was released as the bands first dance remix on a 12-inch single. Keith Richards is credited as co-writer as was the case for all Rolling Stones originals written by either partner or in tandem. Jagger and Ronnie Wood insist that Miss You wasnt conceived as a song, while Richards said. Miss You was a damn good disco record. In any case, what was going on in discotheques did make it to the recording, charlie Watts said, A lot of those songs like Miss You on Some Girls. were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four-to-the-floor and the Philadelphia-style drumming, for the bass part, Bill Wyman started from Prestons bass guitar on the song demo. Chris Kimsey, who engineered the recording of the song, said Wyman went. to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out, Jagger sang a good part of the chorus using falsetto oohs often in unison with harmonica, guitar and electric piano. Unlike most of Some Girls, Miss You features several studio musicians, the 12 version of the song runs over eight minutes and features additional instrumentation and solos, particularly on guitar. It was remixed by Bob Clearmountain, then an upcoming mixer and engineer, the extended version can be found on the Dont Stop CD single and in edited form on the album Rarities 1971–2003. Personnel per Some Girls CD credits and it hit the top on 5 August 1978, ending the seven week reign of Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb. It also reached three in the United Kingdom. The song was nearly nine minutes long, but was edited to nearly five minutes for the album version. In order to edit the radio single without audible bumps and glitches. The B-side of the single was another track, Far Away Eyes. A live recording was captured during the Rolling Stones 1989-1990 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, other live versions have been recorded and/or filmed, including a July 2013 performance featured on Sweet Summer Sun, Hyde Park Live and a July 1995 performance on Totally Stripped. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine rated Miss You number 498 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the song featured in the première episode of the TV series Miami Vice, Brothers Keeper and at the beginning of the film At Close Range. List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1978
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
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Satisfaction is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, Richards three-note guitar riff—intended to be replaced by horns—opens and drives the song. The lyrics refer to sexual frustration and commercialism, Satisfaction was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on radio stations. It later became the Rolling Stones fourth number one in the United Kingdom, in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed Satisfaction in the second spot on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006, Richards recorded the rough version of the riff in a hotel room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. He ran through it once before falling asleep and he said when he listened back to it in the morning, there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and then me snoring for the next forty minutes. The Rolling Stones first recorded the track on 10 May 1965 at Chess Studios in Chicago, the Stones lip-synched to a dub of this version the first time they debuted the song on ABCs Shindig. The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, with a different beat, the songs success boosted sales of the Gibson fuzzbox so that the entire available stock sold out by the end of 1965. Author Gary West cites a different source for the release of Satisfaction in interviewing WTRY radio DJ Joe Condon, in the interview, Condon clearly states that his radio station began playing Satisfaction on 29 April 1965, making the above recording date impossible. It can be assumed that Satisfaction was probably recorded earlier in April, like most of the Stones pre-1966 recordings, Satisfaction was originally released in mono only. In the mid-1980s, a stereo version of the song was released on German. The stereo mix features a piano and acoustic guitar that are audible in the original mono release. The song opens with the riff, which is joined by the bass halfway through. It is repeated three times with the drums and acoustic guitar before the vocal enters with the line, I cant get no satisfaction. The key is E major, but with the 3rd and 7th degree occasionally lowered, the accompanying chords are borrowed from the E mixolydian scale, which is often used in blues and rock. The title line is an example of a negative concord, Jagger sings the verses in a tone hovering between cynical commentary and frustrated protest, and then leaps half singing and half yelling into the chorus, where the guitar riff reappears. Jagger also describes the stress of being a celebrity, and the tensions of touring, the reference in the verse to not getting any girl reaction was fairly controversial in its day, interpreted by some listeners as meaning a girl willing to have sex
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Start Me Up
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Start Me Up is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on the 1981 album Tattoo You. Released as the lead single, it reached #1 on Australian Kent Music Report, #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The basic track Start Me Up was recorded between the January and March 1978 sessions for the Rolling Stones album Some Girls, the song was at first cut as a reggae-rock track named Never Stop, but after dozens of takes the band stopped recording it and it was shelved. Start Me Up failed to make the cut for the album, of the songs history, Richards has commented, It was one of those things we cut a lot of times, one of those cuts that you can play forever and ever in the studio. Twenty minutes go by and youre still locked into those two chords, sometimes you become conscious of the fact that, Oh, its Brown Sugar again, so you begin to explore other rhythmic possibilities. As I said, that one was pretty locked into a rhythm for quite a few weeks. We were cutting it for Emotional Rescue, but it was nowhere near coming through, in 1981, with the band looking to tour, engineer Chris Kimsey proposed to lead singer Mick Jagger that archived songs could comprise the set. While searching through the vaults, Kimsey found the two takes of the song with a rock vibe among some fifty reggae versions. Overdubs were completed on the track in early 1981 in New York at the recording studios Electric Ladyland, on the bands recording style for this track in particular, Kimsey commented in 2004, Including run-throughs, Start Me Up took about six hours to record. You see, if they all played the chords in the right time, went to the chorus at the right time and got to the middle eight together. Dont forget, they would never sit down and work out a song and they would jam it and the song would evolve out of that. It was there where final touches were added to the song, including Jaggers switch of the lyrics from start it up to start me up. The song opens with what has become a trademark riff for Richards. It is this, coupled with Charlie Watts steady backbeat and Bill Wymans echoing bass, lead guitarist Ronnie Wood can clearly be heard playing a layered variation of Richards main riff. Throughout the song Jagger breaks in with a bridge of You make a grown man cry. Percussion by Mike Carabello and handclaps by Jagger, Chris Kimsey and Barry Sage were added during overdub sessions in April and June 1981. Start Me Up peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Charts in September 1981, in Australia, the song reached #1 in November 1981. It also spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard Top Tracks chart, the B-side is a slow blues number called No Use in Crying which also featured on Tattoo You
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Sympathy for the Devil is a song by The Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Sung by Jagger, the song is an homage to The Devil, written in the first-person narrative from his point of view. It is performed in an arrangement with a samba rhythm. It first appeared as the track on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. Rolling Stone magazine placed it at No.32 in their list of Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Sympathy for the Devil was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, though the song was largely a Jagger composition. In the 2012 documentary Crossfire Hurricane, Jagger stated that his influence for the song came from Baudelaire and from the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakovs novel The Master, the book was given to him by Marianne Faithfull. In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaires, I think, sometimes when I look at my Baudelaire books, I cant see it in there. But it was an idea I got from French writing, and I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it. I wrote it as sort of like a Bob Dylan song and it was Richards who suggested changing the tempo and using additional percussion, turning the folk song into a samba. Further more, Jagger stated in the Rolling Stone interview and its a very long historical figure — the figures of evil and figures of good — so it is a tremendously long trail hes made as personified in this piece. The song was written with the line I shouted out Who killed Kennedy. After Robert F. Kennedys death on 6 June 1968, the line was changed to I shouted out Who killed the Kennedys, Jagger sings the final lines of the coda, before the fade, in a high falsetto. The recording of Sympathy for the Devil began at Londons Olympic Sound Studios on 4 June 1968 and continued into the next day, personnel included on the recording include Nicky Hopkins on piano, Rocky Dijon on congas and Bill Wyman on maracas. Richards plays bass on the recording, and also electric guitar. Jones is seen playing a guitar in the film. In the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones, Watts said, the first time I ever heard the song was when Mick was playing it at the front door of a house I lived in in Sussex. He played it entirely on his own, on the overall power of the song, Jagger continued in Rolling Stone, It has a very hypnotic groove, a samba, which has a tremendous hypnotic power, rather like good dance music. It doesnt speed up or slow down, so to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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U2
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U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, initially rooted in post-punk, U2s sound grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music, yet has maintained an anthemic sound. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes, popular for their live performances, the group has staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career. The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency, within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album War, by the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The groups fifth album, The Joshua Tree, made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US, With or Without You, facing a backlash and creative stagnation, U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. This experimentation continued through their album, Pop, and the PopMart Tour. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records All That You Cant Leave Behind and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history. The groups thirteenth album, Songs of Innocence, was released at no cost through the iTunes Store, U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the worlds best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the schools notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Mullen later described it as The Larry Mullen Band for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge. Martin, who had brought his guitar and amplifier to the first practice but could not play, did not remain with the group, the group settled on the name Feedback because it was one of the few technical terms they knew. Most of their material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte. Some of the earliest influences on the band were emerging punk rock acts, such as the Jam, the Clash, Buzzcocks, the popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful. In April 1977, Feedback played their first gig for an audience at St. Fintans High School. Shortly after, the changed their name to The Hype
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Bono
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Paul David Hewson, known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock band U2, Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, frequently using religious, social, during U2s early years, his lyrics contributed to their rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with the other members, Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organised and played in several concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised for his activism and involvement with U2, together with Bill and Melinda Gates, Bono was named Time Person of the Year in 2005, among other awards and nominations. Bono was born in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on 10 May 1960. He was raised in the Northside suburb of Finglas with his brother by their mother, Iris, a member of the Church of Ireland, and their father, Brendan Robert Bob Hewson and his parents initially agreed that the first child would be raised Anglican and the second Catholic. Although Bono was the child, he also attended Church of Ireland services with his mother and brother. He went to the local primary Glasnevin National School, Bonos mother died on 10 September 1974, after suffering a cerebral aneurysm at her fathers funeral. Many U2 songs, including I Will Follow, Mofo, Out of Control, Lemon, Bono attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, a multi-denominational school in Clontarf. During his childhood and adolescence, Bono and his friends were part of a surrealist street gang called Lypton Village, Bono met one of his closest friends, Guggi, in Lypton Village. The gang had a ritual of nickname-giving, Bono had several names, first, he was Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang, then just Huyseman, followed by Houseman, Bon Murray, Bono Vox of OConnell Street, and finally just Bono. Bono Vox is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to good voice and it is said he was nicknamed Bono Vox by his friend Gavin Friday. He initially disliked the name, however, when he learned it translated to good voice, Hewson has been known as Bono since the late 1970s. Although he uses Bono as his name, close family and friends also refer to him as Bono. After he left school, his father Bob Hewson, told him he could live at home for one year but if he was not able to pay his own way, Bono is married to Alison Hewson. The couple have four children, daughters Jordan and Memphis Eve and sons Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q, Bono is almost never seen in public without sunglasses, as he suffers from glaucoma
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It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
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Its Only Rock n Roll is the lead single from English rock band the Rolling Stones 1974 album Its Only Rock n Roll. Writing is credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the reached the top ten in the British charts. The song was recorded one night in a studio at Woods house, The Wick in Richmond. David Bowie was backing singer to Jaggers lead, and Willie Weeks played bass with Kenney Jones on drums, the song on the album is similar to that original recording, with the Stones keeping the original rhythm track. The meaning of the lyrics was summed up by Jagger in the notes to the 1993 compilation Jump Back. I was getting a bit tired of people having a go, all that, oh, the single sleeve had a picture of me with a pen digging into me as if it were a sword. It was a lighthearted, anti-journalistic sort of thing, Jagger also has said that as soon as he wrote it, he knew it was going to be a single. He said it was his answer to everyone who took seriously what he or the band did, according to Richards there was opposition to it being a single but they persisted, saying it had to be the next single. He said that to him that song is a classic, the title alone is a classic and thats the whole thing about it. The song was promoted by a video directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, showing the band dressed in sailor suits. The froth was detergent and, according to Richards, the idea for the suits came about at the last minute because none of the members wanted to get their own wardrobe ruined. Jagger said the filming process was most unpleasant and was also extremely lengthy. The cameras and lights could not be inside the tent for fear of electrocution, because of this risk, in order for the video to be filmed at all, the band had to be insured for quite a reasonable sum. Richards is quoted as saying, Poor old Charlie nearly drowned, because we forgot he was sitting down. Released in July 1974, Its Only Rock n Roll reached number sixteen in the United States, the B-side was the ballad Through the Lonely Nights, which was not featured on any album until the 2005 compilation Rarities 1971-2003. According to Richards, the song was recorded in the wrong key, juliana Hatfield covered the song for her 2009 Daytrotter session. The song was covered by rock band Twisted Sister. Weird Al Yankovic also did a cover of the song as the first and longest of his Hot Rocks Polka
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Dr. John
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He performed a wildly theatrical stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes, and voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack has recorded more than 20 albums and in 1973 scored a hit with Right Place Wrong Time. The winner of six Grammy Awards, Rebennack was inducted into the Rock, in May 2013, Rebennack was the recipient of an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Tulane University. He was jokingly referred to by Tulanes president, Scott Cowen, born in New Orleans in 1940, Dr. John has said that his French lineage took root there some time in the early 1800s. Growing up in the Third Ward, he found musical inspiration in the minstrel tunes sung by his grandfather. He did not take lessons before his teens, and only endured a short stint in choir before getting kicked out. Throughout his adolescence his fathers connections enabled him access to the rooms of burgeoning rock artists such as Little Richard. From these exposures he advanced into clubs and onto the stage with varying local artists, most notably, and I thought, Wow, I never seen nobody dressed like this guy. Just everything about the man was totally hip, and he had gloves on him, too, beautiful silk gloves. At age 16 he was hired by Johnny Vincent as a producer at Ace Records, There, he worked with artists like James Booker and Earl King, his musical experience expanding notably. He struggled through intermittent years of high school, while a student at Jesuit High School, he was already playing in night clubs, something the Jesuit fathers disapproved of. They told him to stop playing in clubs or leave the school. According to lore, this was the seed of his classic, Right Place, eventually he focused entirely on music. Thereafter an entry into heavy narcotics use would fuel his desire to get out of New Orleans and move to California where his character and he had a regional hit with a Bo Diddley-influenced instrumental called Storm Warning on Rex Records in 1959. During these days he was an A&R man producing, with Charlie Miller, monophonic singles on 45s for Johnny Vincent and Joe Corona for such labels as Ace, Ron, Ric. For these sessions he oversaw A&R and the section while Miller wrote the horn arrangements. It was a team until Miller decided to move to New York. After the injury, Rebennack concentrated on guitar before making piano his main instrument
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
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Madison Square Garden
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Madison Square Garden, often called MSG or simply The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. The Garden is used for basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown and it is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and residency to singer-songwriter Billy Joel. The Garden opened on February 11,1968, and is the oldest major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area and it is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and the second-oldest arena in the National Basketball Association. MSG is the fourth-busiest music arena in the world in terms of sales, behind The O2 Arena. At a total construction cost of approximately $1.1 billion and it is part of the Pennsylvania Plaza office and retail complex. Several other operating entities related to the Garden share its name, Madison Square is formed by the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in Manhattan. It was named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States, two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, the first from 1879 to 1890, and the second from 1890 to 1925. The first Garden, leased to P. T. Barnum, had no roof and was inconvenient to use during inclement weather, Madison Square Garden II was designed by noted architect Stanford White. The new building was built by a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, P. T. Barnum, Darius Mills, James Stillman and W. W. Astor. It was 200 feet by 485 feet, and the main hall and it had a 1, 200-seat theatre, a concert hall with a capacity of 1,500, the largest restaurant in the city and a roof garden cabaret. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968, groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9,1925. Designed by the theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, it was built at the cost of $4.75 million in 249 days by boxing promoter Tex Rickard. The arena was 200 feet by 375 feet, with seating on three levels, and a capacity of 18,496 spectators for boxing. Demolition commenced in 1968 after the opening of the current Garden and it finished up in early 1969, and the site is now where One Worldwide Plaza is located. The new structure was one of the first of its kind to be built above the platforms of a railroad station. It was an engineering feat constructed by Robert E. McKee of El Paso, public outcry over the demolition of the Pennsylvania Station structure—an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts architecture—led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Mark Fisher (architect)
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Mark Fisher, OBE, MVO, RDI was a British architect best known for his rock music stage sets. He was born in Warwickshire, England, Fisher graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1971. He was a Unit Master at the AA School from 1973 to 1977, in 1984 he set up the Fisher Park Partnership with Jonathan Park. The partnership was dissolved in 1994 when he established Stufish, the Mark Fisher Studio, in 2000, he created the Millennium Dome Show with Peter Gabriel. He designed the sets for Laura Pausinis Inedito World Tour. Fisher also designed Lady Gagas Born This Way Ball tour stage, the stage consisted of a large medieval castle that moves throughout the concert. Fisher died in his sleep on 25 June 2013 at the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead, UK, leaving an estate, before taxes and his design for Elton Johns Diving Board Tour debuted posthumously. International Movie Data Base entry Stufish http, //www. arcspace. com/architects/fisher_mark/mark_fisher_features. html http, //online. wsj. com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575504293302648522. html
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Charlie Watts
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Charles Robert Charlie Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. Originally trained as a graphic artist, he started playing drums in London’s rhythm and blues clubs, where he met Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards. In 1963, he joined their group, the Rolling Stones, as drummer, while doubling as designer of their record sleeves and he has also toured with his own group, the Charlie Watts Quintet, and appeared at London’s prestigious jazz-club Ronnie Scott’s with the Charlie Watts Tentet. In 2006, Watts was elected into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame, in the same year, in the estimation of noted music critic Robert Christgau, Watts is rocks greatest drummer. In 2016, he was ranked 12th on Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time list and he attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School from 1952 to 1956, as a schoolboy, he displayed a talent for art, cricket and football. As a child, Watts lived in Wembley, at 23 Pilgrims Way, many of Wembley’s houses had been destroyed by German bombs during World War II, Watts and his family lived in a prefabricated home, as did many in the community. Wattss neighbour Dave Green, who lived next door at 22 Pilgrims Way, was a childhood friend, Green recalls that as boys, we discovered 78rpm records. Charlie had more records than I did and we used to go to Charlies bedroom and just get these records out. Watts earliest records were jazz recordings, he remembers owning 78 RPM records of Jelly Roll Morton, Green recalls that Watts also had the one with Monk and the Johnny Dodge Trio. Charlie was ahead of me in listening and acquisitions, Watts initially found his transition to rhythm and blues puzzling, commenting, I went into rhythm and blues. When they asked me to play, I didnt know what it was, I thought it meant Charlie Parker, played slow. Watts parents gave him his first drum kit in 1955, he was interested in jazz, after completing secondary school, he enrolled at Harrow Art School, which he attended until 1960. After leaving school, Watts worked as a designer for an advertising company called Charlie Daniels Studios. In 1961 he met Alexis Korner, who invited him to join his band, at that time Watts was on his way to a sojourn working as a graphic designer in Denmark, but he accepted Korners offer when he returned to London in February 1962. Watts played regularly with Blues Incorporated and maintained a job with another advertising firm of Charles, Hobson and Grey. The band surprised the throng of waiting reporters by driving and playing Brown Sugar on the back of a truck in the middle of Manhattan traffic. Watts remembered this was a way for New Orleans jazz bands to promote upcoming dates. Watts has been involved in activities outside his life as a member of The Rolling Stones
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Mick Jagger
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Sir Michael Philip Mick Jagger is an English singer and songwriter, the lead singer and one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones. Jaggers career has spanned over 55 years, and he has described as one of the most popular. Jaggers distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards guitar style, have been the trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band, Jagger gained press notoriety for his admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure. In the late 1960s, Jagger began acting in films, to mixed reception, in 1985, he released his first solo album, Shes the Boss. In early 2009, Jagger joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy, in 1989 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones. In 2003, he was knighted for his services to popular music, Michael Philip Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent. His father, Basil Fanshawe Joe Jagger, and grandfather, David Ernest Jagger, were both teachers and his mother, Eva Ensley Mary, born in Sydney, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jaggers younger brother, Chris, is also a musician, although brought up to follow his fathers career path, Jagger was always a singer as he stated in According to the Rolling Stones. I always sang as a child, I was one of those kids who just liked to sing. Some kids sing in choirs, others like to show off in front of the mirror, I was in the church choir and I also loved listening to singers on the radio–the BBC or Radio Luxembourg–or watching them on TV and in the movies. In September 1950, Keith Richards and Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School, in 1954, Jagger passed the eleven-plus and went to Dartford Grammar School, which now has the Mick Jagger Centre installed within the schools site, named after its most famous alumnus. Jagger left school in 1961 after obtaining seven O-levels and three A-levels, Jagger and Richards moved into a flat in Edith Grove in Chelsea, London with a guitarist they had encountered named Brian Jones. In their earliest days the members played for no money in the interval of Alexis Korners gigs at a basement club opposite Ealing Broadway tube station, at the time, the group had very little equipment and needed to borrow Alexis gear to play. This was before Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager, the groups first appearance under the name the Rollin Stones was at the Marquee Club in London, a jazz club, on 12 July 1962. They would later change their name to the Rolling Stones as it seemed more formal, victor Bockris states that the band members included Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart on piano, Dick Taylor on bass and Tony Chapman on drums. However, Richards states in Life that The drummer that night was Mick Avory--not Tony Chapman, avory himself has categorically denied on many occasions that he played with the Rollin Stones that night. In fact he only rehearsed twice with them in the Bricklayers Arms pub, Some time later the band went on their first tour in the United Kingdom, this was known as the training ground tour, because it was a new experience for all of them. The line-up did not at that time include drummer Charlie Watts or bassist Bill Wyman, by 1963 they were finding their musical stride as well as popularity
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Patrick Woodroffe (lighting designer)
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Patrick Woodroffe, OBE, RDI is a lighting designer working in the worlds of music, dance, fashion, art and architecture. Patrick Woodroffe grew up in Singapore and Germany and was educated at Marlborough College and he is married to Lucy Woodroffe with whom he has two children. He also has a daughter from a previous relationship and his brother, Simon Woodroffe, is the founder of Yo. Woodroffe has worked with The Rolling Stones since 1982 as the lighting designer and he lit Martin Scorseses Shine a Light, the record of the Stones live performances at the Beacon Theatre. In 2009 Woodroffe lit the This Is It show for Michael Jackson, in opera, ballet and dance he has lit many productions, including Vienna State Opera and Finnish National Opera where the lighting took the place of the scenery. He lit Derek Deane’s large scale production of Swan Lake for the English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall and he also lit the Queens Jubilee concert in 2002 that took place in the gardens at Buckingham Palace. He has been responsible for lighting all the Vanity Fair Oscar parties in Los Angeles and Cannes for the last seventeen years and he has created temporary light installations at the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath and the gardens at Highgrove House for the Prince of Wales. In 2000 Woodroffe was involved with the then Millennium Dome, lighting both the show inside and the exterior of the building, with impresario Steve Wynn he created The Lake of Dreams at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. In 2012 he lit the opening and closing ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympic Games, in 2013 he created the lighting consultancy, Woodroffe Bassett Design with long-term associate Adam Bassett. In 2013 he was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA, Patrick Woodroffes Website http, //www. woodroffebassett. com Patrick Woodroffes IMDB listing http, //www. imdb. com/name/nm0940414/
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Jeff Koons
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He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least one world record price for a work by a living artist. Balloon Dog was one of the first of the Balloon dogs to be fabricated, critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance, others dismiss his work as kitsch, crass, and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated there are no hidden meanings in his works. Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, to Henry and Gloria Koons and his father was a furniture dealer and interior decorator, his mother was a seamstress. When he was nine years old, his father would place old-master paintings copied and signed by his son in the window of his shop in an attempt to attract visitors, as a child he went door to door after school selling gift-wrapping paper and candy to earn pocket money. As a teenager he revered Salvador Dalí so much that he visited him at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, Koons studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. While a visiting student at the Art Institute, Koons met the artist Ed Paschke and he lived in Lakeview, and then in the Pilsen neighborhood at Halsted Street and 19th Street. After college, Koons moved to New York in 1977 and worked at the desk of the Museum of Modern Art while establishing himself as an artist. During this time, he dyed his hair red and would often cultivate a pencil mustache, in 1980, he got licensed to sell mutual funds and stocks and began working as a Wall Street commodities broker at First Investors Corporation. After a summer with his parents in Sarasota, Florida, he returned to New York and found a new career as a broker, first at Clayton Brokerage Company. He did this job when he encountered the problem of financing his first series, and I would always know that I didnt need the art market. Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists who explored the meaning of art in a media-saturated era. He gained recognition in the 1980s and subsequently set up a studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston Street. It was staffed with over 30 assistants, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work—in a similar mode as Andy Warhols Factory. Today, he has a 1,500 m2 factory near the old Hudson rail yards in Chelsea, Koons developed a color-by-numbers system, so that each of his assistants could execute his canvases and sculptures as if they had been done by a single hand. I think art takes you outside yourself, takes you past yourself, I believe that my journey has really been to remove my own anxiety
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Leipzig
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Leipzig is the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. With a population of 570,087 inhabitants it is Germanys tenth most populous city, Leipzig is located about 160 kilometres southwest of Berlin at the confluence of the White Elster, Pleisse, and Parthe rivers at the southern end of the North German Plain. Leipzig has been a city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, Leipzig was once one of the major European centers of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing. Leipzig became an urban center within the German Democratic Republic after the Second World War. Leipzig later played a significant role in instigating the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, through events which took place in, Leipzig today is an economic center and the most livable city in Germany, according to the GfK marketing research institution. Since the opening of the Leipzig City Tunnel in 2013, Leipzig forms the centerpiece of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland public transit system, Leipzig is currently listed as Gamma World City and Germanys Boomtown. Outside of Leipzig the Neuseenland district forms a lake area of approximately 300 square kilometres. Leipzig is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means settlement where the linden trees stand, an older spelling of the name in English is Leipsic. The Latin name Lipsia was also used, the name is cognate with Lipetsk in Russia and Liepāja in Latvia. In 1937 the Nazi government officially renamed the city Reichsmessestadt Leipzig, the common usage of this nickname for Leipzig up until the present is reflected, for example, in the name of a popular blog for local arts and culture, Heldenstadt. de. Leipzig was first documented in 1015 in the chronicles of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg as urbs Libzi and endowed with city, Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world. During the Thirty Years War, two battles took place in Breitenfeld, about 8 kilometres outside Leipzig city walls, the first Battle of Breitenfeld took place in 1631 and the second in 1642. Both battles resulted in victories for the Swedish-led side, on 24 December 1701, an oil-fueled street lighting system was introduced. The city employed light guards who had to follow a schedule to ensure the punctual lighting of the 700 lanterns. The Leipzig region was the arena of the 1813 Battle of Leipzig between Napoleonic France and a coalition of Prussia, Russia, Austria and Sweden. It was the largest battle in Europe prior to the First World War, in 1913 the Monument to the Battle of the Nations celebrating the centenary of this event was completed. The railway station has two entrance halls, the eastern one for the Royal Saxon State Railways and the western one for the Prussian state railways
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Angus Young
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Angus McKinnon Young is an Australian guitarist, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter and sole constant member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits. Young was ranked 24th in Rolling Stone magazines 100 greatest guitarists of all-time list, in 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The youngest of eight children of William and Alexandra Young, Angus was born in Glasgow, in 1963 he emigrated from Scotland to Sydney, with his parents, older brothers Malcolm and George, and older sister Margaret. He dropped out of Ashfield Boys High School at age 15 and his older brother, Alex, remained in Scotland and later formed the London-based group Grapefruit. His oldest brother Stephen was the father of his future AC/DC bandmate Stevie Young, Young first started playing on a banjo, re-strung with six strings. He first started playing guitar on an acoustic model purchased second-hand by his mother. I bought it second-hand, it was about a 67 and it had a real thin neck, really slim, like a Custom neck. Prior to forming AC/DC, Young played in a group called Kantuckee. Kantuckees line-up included Bob McGlynn, Angus Young, Jon Stevens, the band split and was later called Tantrum with the following line up, Mark Sneddon, Angus Young, Jon Stevens and Trevor James. Can I Sit Next To You Girl, their first single, was later re-recorded with Bon Scott as their vocalist and they decided upon the name AC/DC after seeing the letters AC/DC on the back of their sister Margarets sewing machine. To match this image the press and public were told that Young was born in 1959, the original uniform was created by his sister Margaret and when it fell apart from wear and tear, he used his uniform from Ashfield Boys High School in Sydney. I dont like to play above or below peoples heads, basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up. AC/DC released their album, High Voltage on 17 February 1975. Over the next 3 years AC/DC cemented themselves as a hard rock act, especially in Australia, with the follow-up albums. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Let There Be Rock and Powerage and their 1979 studio album, Highway to Hell, became their best-selling at the time and launched them to new heights of fame. Shortly after this, however, lead singer Bon Scott died from alcohol poisoning, AC/DCs next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, cemented their position as the most popular hard rock act of the time. However, their 1990 studio album, The Razors Edge, brought back into the spotlight, reaching 5x multi-platinum in the US alone
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Malcolm Young
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Malcolm Mitchell Young is an Australian retired musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC. Except for an absence in 1988, he was with the band from its November 1973 beginning until retiring permanently in 2014. Young and the members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock. Though his younger brother Angus is the visible of the brothers, Malcolm has been described as the driving force. He also added that despite his retirement from the band, AC/DC was determined to continue making music with his blessing. As the rhythm guitarist, he was responsible for the sweep of the bands sound, developing many of their guitar riffs. He is married to Linda Young and has two children, Cara and Ross, Young took a leave of absence from AC/DC in April 2014, to receive treatment for dementia. In September 2014, the management announced that he would be retiring permanently. One of eight children of William and Alexandra Young, Malcolm was born in Glasgow, in 1963 he emigrated from Scotland to Sydney, with his parents, brothers George and Angus, and older sister Margaret. An older brother, Alex, remained in Scotland and later formed the London-based group Grapefruit and his oldest brother Stephen was the father of his future AC/DC replacement Stevie Young. After the breakup of the Newcastle-based band The Velvet Underground, Young founded AC/DC in November 1973 and they began national touring in 1974 with singer Dave Evans. AC/DC relocated to the UK in 1976, and began a schedule of international touring and recording. After the death of lead singer Bon Scott in 1980, they recorded their biggest selling album Back in Black with singer Brian Johnson, Young missed the majority of AC/DCs Blow Up Your Video World Tour to address his drinking problem. He eventually became sober and returned to the band, during his absence he was replaced by his nephew, Stevie Young with some fans not realising that he had been replaced as Stevie Young bears a striking resemblance to his uncle. In April 2014, Young became seriously ill and was unable to continue performing, on 16 April 2014, AC/DC released a note stating that Young would be taking a break from the band due to ill health. However, singer Brian Johnson stated that earlier reports, AC/DC are not retiring. Were going to pick up guitars, have a plonk and see if anybody has got any tunes or ideas, if anything happens well record it. In July, Johnson revealed that Young was in hospital receiving treatment for a condition and during May recording sessions had been replaced in the studio by Stevie Young
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AC/DC
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AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. A hard rock/blues rock band, they have also considered a heavy metal band, although they have always dubbed their music simply rock. AC/DC underwent several changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975, Malcolm. Membership subsequently stabilised until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977 for the album Powerage, within months of recording the album Highway to Hell, lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group considered disbanding, but buoyed by support from Scotts parents, decided to continue, ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was auditioned and selected to replace Scott. Later that year, the released the new album, Back in Black. The album launched them to new heights of success and became their all-time best-seller, the bands next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was their first album to reach number one in the United States. Drummer Phil Rudd was fired in 1983 and replaced by ex-A II Z drummer Simon Wright, the band experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s with the release of The Razors Edge. Phil Rudd returned in 1994 after Chris Slade, who was with the band from 1989 to 1994, was asked to leave in favour of him, Stiff Upper Lip, released in 2000, was well received by critics. The bands line-up remained the same until 2014 with Malcolm Youngs retirement, in 2016, Johnson was advised to stop touring on account of worsening hearing loss and Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose stepped in as the bands vocalist for the remainder of that years dates. Long-term bass player Cliff Williams subsequently indicated that he would retire from the band on the completion of their current world tour, Back in Black has sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the second-highest-selling album by any artist – and the highest-selling album by any band. The album has sold 22 million units in the US alone, AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and were named the seventh Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time by MTV. In 2004, AC/DC ranked No.72 on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Producer Rick Rubin, who wrote an essay on the band for the Rolling Stone list, referred to AC/DC as the greatest rock, in 2010, AC/DC were ranked number 23 in the VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland, George was the first to learn to play the guitar. He became a member of The Easybeats, one of Australias most successful bands of the 1960s, in 1966, they became the first local rock act to have an international hit, with the song Friday on My Mind. Malcolm followed in Georges footsteps by playing with a Newcastle, New South Wales and their oldest brother Alex Young chose to remain in Britain to pursue musical interests. Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the name after their sister, Margaret Young
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Rock Me Baby (song)
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Rock Me Baby is a blues standard that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. Kings recording of Rock Me Baby was released in 1964, it became his first Top 40 hit and it is based on earlier blues songs and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists in a variety of styles. Kings Rock Me Baby is based on Rockin and Rollin, a recorded by Lil Son Jackson in 1950. Kings lyrics are identical to Jacksons, although instrumentally the songs are different. Rockin and Rollin is a piece, with Jacksons vocal and guitar accompaniment. Muddy Waters song Rock Me, recorded in 1956, is based on Jacksons song. Some of Jacksons lyrics were used, but Waters incorporated a couple of verses from his 1951 song All Night Long, muddy Waters Rock Me also uses Jacksons guitar figure and the starting of the vocal on the IV chord and he interpreted it as an unusual fifteen-bar blues. Muddy Waters recorded a version of Rock Me for his 1978 album Im Ready. Lil Son Jacksons Rockin and Rollin was inspired by earlier blues songs, big Bill Broonzys 1940 song Rockin Chair Blues makes frequent use of the phrase rock me baby as in Rock me baby now, rock me slow. Now rock me baby, one time before you go, arthur Crudups 1944 song, Rock Me Mama, is based on Broonzys song and repeats the same refrain, but uses mama in place of baby. Curtis Jones 1939 song Roll Me Mama shares a couple of phrases with Rockin and Rollin, Rock Me Baby is a medium-tempo twelve-bar blues notated in the key of C in common or 4/4 time. In addition to Kings vocal and guitar, the features a tight. Kent part-owner Joe Bihari recalled the pianist as Kings frequent collaborator Maxwell Davis, although others have suggested, such as Lloyd Glenn. The arrangement provides a structure that allows King room for biting guitar work. There is some confusion as to when B. B. King recorded Rock Me Baby, although King had signed to ABC-Paramount Records in January 14,1962, his former label, Kent Records, continued to release singles well into the 1970s from many unreleased King masters. Thus forcing King to compete with himself, recording dates have been estimated as about 1958 to before 1962. The song was released shortly after Kings Paramount release How Blue Can You Get in 1964, Rock Me Baby was the first of six B. B. King records to reach the pop Top 40. In 1997, King re-recorded the song with Eric Clapton for the album Deuces Wild, over the years, many blues and other artists have interpreted and recorded Rock Me Baby
