When Keith Richards first met Gram Parsons in 1968, he felt he’d known him all his life. “There was an immediate recognition,” he wrote in his autobiography, Life. “What we could have done if we’d known each other earlier.” It’s easy to discern the influence Parsons had on Richards. Parsons …
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Prince, Sign O’ the Times: Deluxe Edition (Warner) On this 1987 masterpiece, Prince’s second double LP in less than five years, the R&B futurist responded to the serial crises in his personal life — the end of an affair; the firing of his band, the Revolution; escalating wartime with his …
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Keith Richards has teamed up with director Jacques Naudé to create a new video for “Hate It When You Leave,” which he cut for his 1992 solo LP Main Offender. Naudé (who is married to Keith’s daughter Alexandra Richards) shot ordinary Americans from all stages of life for the video, …
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Mick Jagger got a call from his label recently with some news: While working on a reissue of the Rolling Stones’ 1973 album Goats Head Soup, the crew found some unreleased tracks. “I remember thinking, ‘Oh, no,’” Jagger says. “Unreleased tracks, to me that always means a lot of work. …
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The Rolling Stones are rereleasing their 1973 LP Goats Head Soup as a deluxe box set featuring rarities, outtakes and alternative mixes from the sessions, a new stereo mix of the original album, a complete show from the accompanying tour and three previously unreleased tracks from the period. One of …
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Groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank — best known to rock fans as the director of the notorious 1972 Rolling Stones fly-on-the-wall tour documentary Cocksucker Blues — died September 9th at his home in Inverness, Nova Scotia. He was 94. “We’re very sad to hear the news that the visionary …
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