Sunday 31 October 2010

Rolling Stones and Keith Richards...



























So there was a price to pay for free love after all - right keith? My findings about the article.

WORDS/PHRASES.
1.unbearable
2.fraught relationship
3.Mick Jagger
4.Ronnie Woods
5.Keith Richards
6.Charlie Watts
7.Brian Jones
8.Bill Wyman
9.free love
10.the 60s&70s
11.adolescent sniping
12.affair
13.revenge
14.Anita Pallenberg
15.Marrianne Faithfull
16.love
17.The Rolling stones
18.jelousy
19. Rockstar
20. Counterculture





FACTS
1. 1977, Queens silver jubilee

2. Stones released 22 UK studio albums. 24 US, and 8 UK concert albums. 9 US

3. Stones formed in 1962

4.Pallenberg is known for her romantic involvement with Rolling Stones band members Brian Jones, whom she met in 1965 in Munich,
and Keith Richards, for whom she left Jones in 1967. She remained in a relationship with Richards until 1980 although they never married.

5.RIchards suspected in 1969 that Jagger was having an affair with his sixties partner Anita Pallenberg.

6.Richards then had a "liason" with Jagger's girlfriend Marianne Faithfull.

7. It was the rock stars of the day who were at the pinnacle of this lifestyle, and gave out the message that it was a life not just full of thrills, but of
a much-needed political revolution to break the patriarchy and downright boredom of conventional relationships and the nuclear family. 

8. Author A. E. Hotchner mentions Pallenberg's influence on the development and presentation of the Rolling Stones from the late 1960s and through the 1970s. She played an unusual role in the male-dominated world of rock music in the late 1960s, acting as much more than just a groupie or partner of a band member.Jagger respected her opinion enough that tracks on Beggars Banquet were remixed when Pallenberg criticised them. In the 2002 compilation release of Forty Licks, Pallenberg is credited as singing background vocals on "Sympathy for the Devil".

9.She shared Richards's drug addiction. She was charged first in the 1977 Toronto heroin arrest that led to Richards being arrested on charges that could have led to a lengthy prison sentence. A warrant for Pallenberg's arrest was the reason police came to search the pair's hotel rooms; she pled guilty to marijuana possession and was fined, several weeks after Richards's arrest

10.In 1979, a 17-year-old boy, Scott Cantrell, shot himself in the head with a gun owned by Keith Richards, while in Pallenberg's bed. The youth had been employed as a part-time groundskeeper at the estate and was involved in a sexual relationship with Pallenberg. Richards was in Paris recording with the Rolling Stones but his son was at the house when the teen killed himself. Pallenberg was arrested. However, the death was ruled a suicide in 1980, despite rumours that Pallenberg and Cantrell had been playing a game of Russian roulette with the gun. The police investigation stated that Pallenberg was not in the room or on the same floor of the house at the time the fatal shot was fired.

11.Pallenberg and Richards together had three children: son Marlon (born 10 August 1969), daughter Angela (original name Dandelion, born 17 April 1972), and a second son, Tara (26 March – 6 June 1976), who died in his cot 10 weeks after birth.

12.The Free Love movement’s initial goal was to separate the state from sexual matters such as marriage, birth control, and adultery. It claimed that such issues were the concern of the people involved, and no one else.

13.New cultural forms emerged, including the pop music of the British bands and the concurrent rise of hippie culture, which led to the rapid evolution of a youth subculture that emphasized change and experimentation.

14.The Rolling Stones began as a blues band. Their greatest success came when the group reinvented itself as a rock band.

15.Formed in 1961 by schoolmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, what has become known as the world's greatest rock & roll band originally
 performed covers of other artists' hit songs. Their first album, in 1964, contained only one Jagger-Richards original




STATISTICS
1. Estimated to have sold 200 million albums.

2. Position     Album
 #7                Exile On Main Street
 #32                Let It Bleed
 #57                Beggar's Banquet
 #63                Sticky Fingers
 #108                Aftermath
 #114                Out Of Our Heads
 #181                The Rolling Stones, Now!
 #211                Tattoo You
 #269                Some Girls
 #355                Between The Buttons

3. Fans have used the major search engines to find Rolling Stones discography, lyrics, tab, stats,
CD's etc. over 160,000 times in a one month period.

4.In 2003 he ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". (Keith Richards)

5.Working virtually nonstop since their beginning, the group has released more than 50 albums

6.Hot Rocks 1964-71 was certified for 12 million units sold

7.Four Flicks obliterated records in 2004 with a certification of 19x Platinum.






OPINIONS
1.Richards is a had been wimp, no drugs, and he's cottoned onto Depp?
Why does this snoozepaper feature such a nonentititty?

2.He certainly hasn't given up the booze, that's pretty evident from their live shows...
God, what a sad, old conceited goat he's become

3.Keith Richards mystifies me. When you look at pictures of him in the 60s and 70s and then look at
him now, it's not like a man who has aged: he just doesn't look like the same man. Different
shaped head and face altogether. And he wonders where his mate Mick has gone.

4.s greatest 'lost' comedian of the 20th century... just keeps getting better with age! nice one Keith.
I think judging by his slow uptake as to who Johnny Depp was, Lucifer may have to re-introduce himself

5."[Keith Richards] was the big Lord Byron figure. He was mad, bad, and dangerous to know."

6.In 2010, Peter Hitchens wrote of Richards that he is "a capering streak of living gristle who ought to be exhibited as a warning
to the young of what drugs can do to you even if you're lucky enough not to choke on your own vomit".

7."Wasn't this the era of free love, sexual liberation, anything goes and we're all friends afterwards?" (David Lister-writer of article)

8."chances are his girlfriend never actually slept with jagger or anyone else, so for him to do that to jaggers girlfriend makes him worse in my opinion"
(chrus lawson)

9."Regardless if its free love there should still be boundries that you have with yourself and respect others BUT to sleep with another mans women just because you suspect they are yours is wrong." 
(marty edwards)

10. "I think that's quite silly, sleeping with someone else girlfriend through suspicion... he's out of his little mind box he is! You do know hes not a real person? more of an enigma, a guitar playing enigma."
(Niall Cruickshank-Sutton)

RELATED ARTICLE: THE MAIL: Could Keith's memoirs destroy the Stones: Jagger and Richards have been feuding for 59 years... and it's coming out into the open.

Theirs is not quite a rocky marriage, nor a case of sibling rivalry - although Mick once said that they were like brothers who had been born by chance to different parents.
No, the partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is all these things and yet far more - a complicated and 'completely dysfunctional' relationship; a 59-year association which can lay claim to being the greatest partnership in rock.
'With those two,' says a friend of the band, 'it's all about the niggle - there's always a niggle between them. They are like a couple of soap-opera queens.'
Now, Keith has completed his autobiography, entitled Life, which will be published in October by Little, Brown.


It contains a full account of his views on Mick Jagger, including hundreds of critical words devoted to Mick's womanising and drug taking.
Keith's opinion, I'm told, is that Mick 'has never been able to handle chicks', and he expounds this theory at some length throughout the book, criticising his old friend for destroying his marriage to Jerry Hall and for his cruelty to Marianne Faithfull.
There are also passages about Mick's use of cocaine and marijuana in the Seventies, which are said to be making the publisher's lawyers turn several different shades of green.
It sounds like rather more than a 'niggle', then - indeed, the question is, will it be enough to cause a permanent rift between them? Might this book finally split the Rolling Stones?

Keith Richards reveals all in rock'n'roll memoirs...

The drugs and the music, working with Mick Jagger and sleeping with his girl, being jailed and falling in love - Keith Richards' memoirs, revealed Saturday, are every bit as rock'n'roll as he was.
Extracts of his autobiography "Life", published in The Times newspaper, give the ultimate inside story of how the Rolling Stones raised hell as they became one of the most revered and influential bands of the 20th century.
The no-holds barred account of Richards' life reveals a fraught relationship with his songwriting partner, Jagger, who he calls "Your Majesty" or "Brenda" and who says became "unbearable" from about the early 1980s.
"I used to love Mick, but I haven't been to his dressing room in 20 years. Sometimes I think, 'I miss my friend'. I wonder, 'Where did he go?'," recalls Richards, now an unrepentant 67 years old, in the book.
He also reveals that Jagger has a "tiny todger", a detail apparently passed on to him by Jagger's one-time girlfriend Marianne Faithfull.
Faithfull was involved in a series of complicated love trysts involving the Stones, which began when Richards stole his bandmate Brian Jones' girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, on a drug-fuelled trip to Spain.
Later, Richards became convinced that Pallenburg was having an affair with Jagger and so took it upon himself to bed Faithfull - only to be caught in flagrante and forced to escape through a window.
Jones died in a swimming pool in 1969, but Richards and Pallenberg went on to have three children together.
In the book, Richards recalls how they got together: "I still remember the smell of the orange trees in Valencia. When you get laid with Anita Pallenberg for the first time, you remember things."
They were in Spain after fleeing Britain following a drugs bust at Richards' home in London, where he and Jagger were arrested and subsequently jailed, although Richards' conviction was overturned and Jagger's sentence quashed.
In the memoirs, Richards describes the bust, which came after a heavy night on acid.
"There's a knock on the door. I look through the window and there's this whole lot of dwarves outside, but they're all wearing the same clothes!
"They were policemen, but I didn't know it. They just looked like very small people wearing dark blue with shiny bits and helmets. 'Wonderful attire! Am I expecting you? Anyway, come on in, it's a bit chilly out.'"
"Life" by Keith Richards with James Fox is published on October 26.