How some of the top rock stars pick up a few extra dollars performing at private parties.
It doesn't surprise me that Mr. Jagger is interested. Afterr all, he attended the London School of Economics. :-)
Four years ago, on the 40th anniversary of Dylan's release of Like a Rolling Stone, Ben MacIntyre of the London Times paid tribute:
“Come writers and critics who prophesy with your pen,” he invited. So, here goes: I predict that 40 years from now Like a Rolling Stone will still be voted the greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine; that we will still be arguing over whether Dylan wrote anything of comparable brilliance after 1966 to what had come before. I also prophesy that Professor Ricks will have written an Empsonian exegesis on Dylan with more footnotes than text; and that Dylan will have inspired more PhD theses than the rest of pop music put together.
They don't have enough from the incredibly talented Thomas Newman, but otherwise it's a pretty good list.
One of life's little mysteries: among the large--and seemingly growing--number of people who are furious at "the rich", there seems, to me, to be little resentment of leading entertainers.
I could conjecture about the reasons why, but instead I'm going to link to some purported pictures of entertainers' homes.
(If you're in the market for a big house, now might well be a good time to buy. A new, 27,000 square-foot home on two acres in Beverly Hills, originally listed for $45 million, just sold for a mere $31.5.)
#5 is the Stones's "I Can't Get No Satisfaction".
Anyway, the story goes that Richards got up and recorded the riff and the phrase "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" before dozing off. The next day, Keith and Mick fleshed out the track, and immediately Keith began to hate the shit out of his late night inspiration. At first his complaint was that the song was too "folksy." And we all know that the last thing the music buying public of 1965 wanted was "folksy" sounding rock music.
Martin Scorcese will direct a Frank Sinata biopic. Who should play the Chairman of the Board?
UPDATE: the New York Post reports the favorites are Johnny Depp and James Franco.
UPDATE, PART DEUX: the Telegraph quotes an unnamed source that Jamie Foxx is in the running.
UPDATE, PART TRES: the Sun reports that Leo is Scorcese's choice
Complete with an introduction by Kathryn Murray in which she says "rock and roll" with the same tone that somebody today might say "septic tank backup".
Brutally funny, and one reason why the record companies got into trouble.
Forty years after their first album, they're--some of them, anyway--still playing.
