ROLLING STONE ARTICLES
Blues Skies for B.B. King
It’s good to be the King — B.B. King, to be specific. In the last month, the legendary bluesman saw his collaboration with Eric Clapton, Riding with the King, debut at No. 3 on the nation’s album chart and his classy B.B. King Blues Club & Grill open in the tourist hotbed of New York’s Times Square. Of course, as…
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AC/DC Rock London
Veteran rockers AC/DC played a high-octane performance in front of 5,000 ticket-holders in London to celebrate the opening of the Hammersmith Apollo, formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon. The band had not played the venue in twenty-one years, and, in recognition, tickets were sold at 1982 prices: ten pounds ($16.00). The tickets were sold, however, using modern…
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MC5 Come Together in London
“We are not the MC5,” announced founding MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer during a Thursday press conference at London’s 100 Club. “This is not an MC5 show. This is not an MC5 reunion. It’s a celebration of the music of the MC5.” At the club that night, the band’s surviving members — Kramer, bassist Michael Davis and drummer…
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After Twenty-Year Layoff, Meters Don’t Miss a Beat
When, on the verge of a huge commercial breakthrough, a group fizzles out amid such business and financial chaos, allegations, accusations and still unresolved wrangling over publishing as the Meters did, it would normally take an act of Congress to get all the original members on stage performing together. But it being all too obvious…
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Family Toasts John Phillips’ 66th
Actresses and singers Mackenzie, Chynna and Bijou Phillips hosted a small reception in New York on August 28th to celebrate the release of Phillips 66, their father John Phillips’ posthumous new album, two days before what would have been his sixty-sixth birthday (hence, the album’s title). The party took place at the Phillips Club on —…
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Peter Green Still Has Blues
Very quietly, blues legend Peter Green has just released Time Traders, the fifth release by his band the Peter Green Splinter Group since it began in 1996. The former John Mayall guitar player and founder of Fleetwood Mac was once a leading light of the British blues scene as well as author of some of the era’s classic tunes like…
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