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rock-critically correct
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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"Rolling Stone" Shines A Light On Its Inspiration
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Rolling Stone:
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shine a light (so i can pack this thing)
Why is Keith Richards having problems writing his autobiography? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards eating cigarettes on stage? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards laying on a beach, complaining that he's read every book ever written, so someone better hurry up and make more? Because he got high, because he got high, because he got high. "I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time. There, you've got it," Keef told The Sun in a new interview. "But that's my benign weed. That's all I take, that's all I do. But I do smoke and I've got some really good hash."
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Keith Richards In "I've Got Some Really Good Hash!" Shocker
Why is Keith Richards having problems writing his autobiography? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards eating cigarettes on stage? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards laying on a beach, complaining that he's read every book ever written, so someone better hurry up and make more? Because he got high, because he got high, because he got high. "I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time. There, you've got it," Keef told The Sun in a new interview. "But that's my benign weed. That's all I take, that's all I do. But I do smoke and I've got some really good hash."
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From the "Your Continuing Existence Actually Refutes Your Own Claim" department: "The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards has warned Amy Winehouse off drugs, stating that she 'isn't going to be around long if she doesn't stop." [NME]
Perhaps feeling left out of the annual UK Christmas music blitz, Keith Richards is releasing his 1978 holiday single "Run Rudolph Run" on iTunes next Tuesday, along with his recent cover of Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop." The song was popularized in the late '50s by Chuck Berry, whose version Richards presumably thought was not mumbly enough. [Reuters]
"Mick Jagger's son, James, will be asked to play his father in a new film about the Rolling Stones, according to reports." In related news, Salacious Crumb, Jabba the Hutt's right-hand man, is in talks to play Keith Richards. [Gigwise]
baby wants his bottle
Completely erasing whatever bad-ass goodwill he may have recently generated by smoking on stage—and then eating a cigarette on stage, which is just foolish, as any first-year smoker who's gotten a little tobacco from a broken cigarette in their mouth knows—Keith Richards has penned a nasty note to a Swedish newspaper after one of them uppity European critics shrugged that a recent Stones performance was sub-par and daring to imply that Richards may have in fact been (the hell you say) "superdrunk":
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Keith Richards Whines Like A Little Girl
Completely erasing whatever bad-ass goodwill he may have recently generated by smoking on stage—and then eating a cigarette on stage, which is just foolish, as any first-year smoker who's gotten a little tobacco from a broken cigarette in their mouth knows—Keith Richards has penned a nasty note to a Swedish newspaper after one of them uppity European critics shrugged that a recent Stones performance was sub-par and daring to imply that Richards may have in fact been (the hell you say) "superdrunk":
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my iron lung
Here's a fun game for the afternoon: Count how many news outlets, even playfully, cast the Rolling Stones as avenging rock'n'roll angels because they dared to flaunt a smoking ban at a U.K. show. Christ, I'm a smoker and even I find this shit embarassing. Dear international media: Please don't reduce unkillable zombie bad-ass Keith Richards to the level of Denis Leary tediously sticking it to anti-smokers because Richards was probably too drunk and/or indifferent and/or old to remember that he couldn't smoke on stage. Dear Keith Richards: Just because cancer itself would shrivel and die if introduced into your toxic, possibly irradiated body, don't go teaching the children of Generation Z that smoking is cool. Because it ain't.
Smoking Stones Show They're Still Stage Rebels [USA Today]
The Rolling Stones: Old Gods Almost Out Of Newport Lights
Here's a fun game for the afternoon: Count how many news outlets, even playfully, cast the Rolling Stones as avenging rock'n'roll angels because they dared to flaunt a smoking ban at a U.K. show. Christ, I'm a smoker and even I find this shit embarassing. Dear international media: Please don't reduce unkillable zombie bad-ass Keith Richards to the level of Denis Leary tediously sticking it to anti-smokers because Richards was probably too drunk and/or indifferent and/or old to remember that he couldn't smoke on stage. Dear Keith Richards: Just because cancer itself would shrivel and die if introduced into your toxic, possibly irradiated body, don't go teaching the children of Generation Z that smoking is cool. Because it ain't.Smoking Stones Show They're Still Stage Rebels [USA Today]
Keith Richards did indeed snort a line of his dad's ashes as if it was cocaine, but only because he didn't have a Dustbuster handy. If Richards is blithely revealing this sort of perversity to the NME, one can only imagine what sort of taboo-busting secrets he's saving for the $7.3 million autobiography. If he remembers he's supposed to write a $7.3 million autobiography. [NME]
deals
The bidding war for Keith Richards' autobiography has ended, and Little, Brown will shell out a reported $7.3 million to the rights for Keef's life story, which he'll write with White Mischief author James Fox. While $7.3 million might seem like a hefty figure to anyone who hasn't looked at the Rolling Stones' ticket prices lately, it's probably fair to say that the first-person account of Keith being trepanned—in Richards' words, "having your fucking skull cut open" and allowing a neurosurgeon to see the thoughts "flying around" within—is probably worth at least a couple of bucks. (Why said neurosurgeon hasn't been pursued by publishers yet is beyond me.) And hey, perhaps he'll go through the experience again, despite previous disavowals, since the book isn't slated to come out until 2010.
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Keith Richards Falls Out Of The Coconut Tree, Into A Pile Of Publishing Money
The bidding war for Keith Richards' autobiography has ended, and Little, Brown will shell out a reported $7.3 million to the rights for Keef's life story, which he'll write with White Mischief author James Fox. While $7.3 million might seem like a hefty figure to anyone who hasn't looked at the Rolling Stones' ticket prices lately, it's probably fair to say that the first-person account of Keith being trepanned—in Richards' words, "having your fucking skull cut open" and allowing a neurosurgeon to see the thoughts "flying around" within—is probably worth at least a couple of bucks. (Why said neurosurgeon hasn't been pursued by publishers yet is beyond me.) And hey, perhaps he'll go through the experience again, despite previous disavowals, since the book isn't slated to come out until 2010.
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A publishing industry insider says that the price for a Keith Richards autobiography has reached "Bill Clinton money," with HarperCollins and Little, Brown tossing around millions of dollars for the Glimmer Twin's life story. I dunno, $7 million seems a small price to pay for what will likely be the first comprehensible things Richards has said in decades. [New York Business via The Daily Swarm]
polls
The full Keith Richards interview is now up on NME's site, and it turns out, the father-snorting story isn't the only bit that makes for a good soundbite:
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One Or Two More Lines From Keith Richards, And Then We're Done
The full Keith Richards interview is now up on NME's site, and it turns out, the father-snorting story isn't the only bit that makes for a good soundbite:
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feuds
In a move that'll surely inspire the droniest dis tracks ever, a member of Mogwai has taken to the band's blog to decry Keith Richards' confession that he snorted his dad, and his follow-up assertion that as far as music goes, "There ain't nothing out there that's worth shit.... I listen to my shit, baby, Motörhead, reggae, Moroccan music. All kinds of shit."
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Richards' Snorting And Scoffing Gets Scottish Post-Rocker's Nose Out Of Joint
In a move that'll surely inspire the droniest dis tracks ever, a member of Mogwai has taken to the band's blog to decry Keith Richards' confession that he snorted his dad, and his follow-up assertion that as far as music goes, "There ain't nothing out there that's worth shit.... I listen to my shit, baby, Motörhead, reggae, Moroccan music. All kinds of shit."
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Keith Richards Gives His Review Of Last Night's Hall Of Fame Ceremony
Ol' Keef is all thumbs as he and his cavernous, cavernous rib cage address the press room.
[Photo: WENN]
Ol' Keef is all thumbs as he and his cavernous, cavernous rib cage address the press room.
[Photo: WENN]