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- 'Grrr!': Rolling Stones release greatest hits
- Taylor Swift to headline 'New Year's Rockin' Eve'
- Mick Jagger's love letters to singer Marsha Hunt up for auction
| 'Grrr!': Rolling Stones release greatest hits Posted: 10 Nov 2012 05:12 AM PST PARIS: The Rolling Stones on Monday release a greatest hits album titled "Grrr!" featuring two new tracks recorded over the summer in Paris, as fans count down to a string of 50th-anniversary concerts. The first new single, "Doom and Gloom" was released online last month, and is available to stream from the band's official website, www.rollingstones.com, while the second, "One More Shot", was put online on Thursday. "Dirty, swaggering and perfectly Stonesy," is how the Daily Telegraph's reviewer described the latest track. The songs are the Stones's first new recordings together in seven years. "Grrr!" will be released in several formats, including 50- and 80-track box sets, featuring such classics as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Honky Tonk Women". Celebrating a half-century in rock and roll this year, the Stones played their first concerts in five years at two small venues in Paris late last month. They have announced four major concerts in Britain and the United States to mark the anniversary. But they have run into criticism from fans over the ticket prices, with London seats costing hundreds of pounds (euros/dollars) on the official website, and tickets appearing on re-sale websites for more than 13,000 each. The Rolling Stones play London's O2 Arena on November 25 and 29, followed by gigs at New Jersey's Newark Prudential Center, just outside New York, on December 13 and 15. Currently rehearsing in Paris, the band have hinted there could be more shows to come. - AFP |
| Taylor Swift to headline 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' Posted: 09 Nov 2012 09:22 PM PST LOS ANGELES: Country-pop star Taylor Swift will ring in the New Year in the United States as the headline act on TV special "New Year's Rockin' Eve," which will feature a two-hour tribute to late host Dick Clark, organizers said on Friday. Swift, whose new album "Red" racked up more than 1 million copies in first week U.S. sales, will perform live in New York's Times Square on Dec. 31, just before the ball drops to bring in 2013. The New Year's Eve music special for ABC television was hosted for four decades by legendary TV and music producer Clark before his death in April at age 82. This year the show will be helmed again by Clark's recent co-host - "American Idol" host and radio DJ Ryan Seacrest - under the title "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest," ABC and dick clark productions said. The evening will kick off with a two-hour tribute to the host of TV dance show "American Bandstand" that will feature clips of Clark's long career, and remembrances by musicians and industry celebrities. The 5-1/2 hour show will also feature other musical guests, yet to be announced, and report on New Year celebrations around the globe.-Reuters |
| Mick Jagger's love letters to singer Marsha Hunt up for auction Posted: 09 Nov 2012 04:47 PM PST Love letters written by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to American singer Marsha Hunt, discussing poetry and his personal turmoil, will hit the auction block next month. Hunt, with whom Jagger had his first child, Karis, told Britain's Guardian newspaper she was selling the letters, written in July and August 1969, because she had been unable to pay her bills. "I'm broke," Hunt, who lives in France, told the newspaper. The Guardian said on Friday the 10 letters would be sold by Sotheby's on Dec. 12. The auction house values the letters from between 70,000 and 100,000 pounds ($111,000-$160,000). Jagger wrote them to Hunt while filming the Tony Richardson movie "Ned Kelly" in Australia. They are described as showing a sensitive side of the then-young singer, who wrote about the poetry of Emily Dickinson, meeting author Christopher Isherwood and an unrealized multimedia project. Jagger's relationship with Hunt, who is African-American, was kept under wraps until 1972. "The sale is important," Hunt told The Guardian. "Someone, I hope, will buy those letters as our generation is dying and with us will go the reality of who we were and what life was." Hunt has said she was the inspiration for the Rolling Stones' song "Brown Sugar," which Jagger wrote while in Australia. The rock star also cites in the letters the disintegration of his relationship with singer Marianne Faithful, whom he was also dating at the time, and the death of Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones. |
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