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Mick Taylor helps Rolling Stones recapture glory days
If you liked the way the Rolling Stones sounded back in the late 1960s and early '70s -- darker and bluesier than more recent conjurings -- you have a chance to hear that signature growl once again. The Stones' 50 & Counting tour, which returns to...
Tags: Entertainment, Mick Jagger, Human Interest, Honda Center, Music
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Review: The Rolling Stones rock Staples in first gig of tour
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.The first measures heard at Staples Center as the Rolling Stones began their 26th (give or take) concert in Los Angeles didn’t include Keith Richards’ riffs, Mick Jagger’s sweet falsetto, Ron Wood’s delicate guitar lines or...Tags: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dodger Stadium, No Doubt (music group), Mick Jagger, Bars and Clubs
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Rolling Stones invade Echo Park, perform an hour of classics
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticDuring 50 years of performing, the Rolling Stones have done some peach gigs: They’ve stood before Hells Angels at Altamont, sold out Wembley Stadium and Madison Square Garden, gigged the Palladium in Hollywood, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium...Tags: Staples Center, Entertainment, Mick Jagger, Music, Madison Square Garden
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For Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones on new ground
The 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' birth in 1962 has had no shortage of commemorative activities: Last year the group was the subject of a retrospective film documentary, a triple CD survey of their recorded output and a handful of celebratory...
Tags: Los Angeles Kings, National Hockey League, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney
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Rolling Stones unveil 2013 world tour
In the better-late-than-never department, the Rolling Stones on Wednesday announced a 2013 tour, as close to a full-fledged 50th anniversary "50 and Counting" tour as "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band” could muster, opening in May in Los...
Tags: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, National Hockey League, The Rolling Stones (music group), Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger
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Review: Rock legends take over Sandy concert
Critiquing the broadcast of the 12-12-12 Sandy benefit concert on Wednesday night is like assessing the food at a bake sale: Maybe the muffins are oversalted or the cookies are stale, but that's not the point. The point is charity and drawing attention to...
Tags: Coldplay (music group), Eric Clapton, Robin Hood, Folklore and Mythology, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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Rolling Stones may face fine after violating London curfew
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Maybe the Rolling Stones should work up Chuck Berry’s “Reelin’ and Rockin’ ” -- the proto-rock hit in which the singer keeps checking his watch -- now that the group...
Tags: The E Street Band (music group), Entertainment, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones (music group), Mick Jagger
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Guns N' Roses reunites minus Axl Rose for Hall of Fame induction
Pop & HissGuns N' Roses: Axl Rose was absent -- as promised -- but former members of GNR reunited for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in Cleveland. Rose had vowed to boycott the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame event over differences with his former band... -
Album review: Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Mean Old Man'
Pop & HissItâs hard to think of another artist who could bring together so many collaborators from disparate corners of the music world as those who turn up on the Killerâs latest outing, which include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood...... -
Bo Diddley, 79; singer-songwriter's beat marked rock 'n' roll
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPrimal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley, who helped cast the sonic template of rock more than 50 years ago with a signature syncopated rhythm that became universally recognized as "the Bo Diddley beat," died Monday. He was 79. Diddley died of heart...Tags: Duke Robillard, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Little Richard, Rock and Roll (genre)
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1989: Still the Greatest
Times Staff WriterThe winner and still champ: the Rolling Stones. On a night when rock 'n' roll's most celebrated survivors played with such passion and fire at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that they looked as though they could go on convincingly for another 10...Tags: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones (music group), Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Music Industry
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