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Artist of the Year: The Rolling Stones | ARTICLE

As they relax backstage at the Pontiac Silverdome, outside Detroit, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards burst into giddy laughter at the very...
March 8, 1990 1:40 PM ET
Rolling Stones Wrap Up U.S. Tour With Eric Clapton, Axl Rose, John Lee Hooker | ARTICLE

The Rolling Stones closed the first leg of their tumultuously successful Steel Wheels tour with three shows at the 16,000-seat Convention Center,...
February 8, 1990 1:40 PM ET
Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour Stutters, Then Rolls | ARTICLE

The Rolling Stones' 'Steel Wheels' tour got off to a somewhat shaky start on August 31st in Philadelphia when, during "Shattered," the third...
October 19, 1989 3:25 PM ET
Steel Wheels | ALBUM REVIEW

Nothing reinvigorates Sixties icons like having something to prove. In the past few years the reverence typically shown both the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan has worn perilously thin. The Stones' last two albums, Undercover and...
August 29, 1989 12:00 AM ET
Flowers In The Dirt | ALBUM REVIEW

Flowers in the dirt were, of course, one of the most compelling anti-Sixties images of the punk movement: "We are the flowers in your dustbin/We are the poison in your human machine," Johnny Rotten spat out on...
June 29, 1989 12:00 AM ET
Library of Congress Recordings, Vols. 1-3 | ALBUM REVIEW

Perhaps the lone salvation of human tragedy is that occasionally it finds its poet, the one person who lends enduring meaning to suffering and rescues dignity from disaster. The Dust Bowl crisis of the Thirties found its...
May 4, 1989 12:00 AM ET
R.E.M.'s Brave New World | ARTICLE

'Okay, Listen! We need everybody here to act like professionals. We don't want to step on anybody's toes." One of the few adults on the...
April 20, 1989 7:10 PM ET
New York | ALBUM REVIEW

New York is Lou Reed's rock & roll version of The Bonfire of the Vanities. But whereas Tom Wolfe maintains an ultimately cynical distance from the urban disintegration he depicts in his novel, Reed is raging. In...
February 23, 1989 12:00 AM ET
Keith Richards: A Stone Rolls Alone | ARTICLE

With all the outlaw command of a loaded Saturday night special, Keith Richards took the stage November 29 at the Beacon Theatre, in...
January 12, 1989 12:00 PM ET
Keith Richards: A Stone Alone Comes Clean | ARTICLE

A drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, Keith Richards dances around the New York office of his personal manager,...
October 6, 1988 6:20 PM ET
INXS: New Sensation | ARTICLE

It's fifteen minutes before show time, and INXS guitarist Tim Farriss strolls over to a visitor in the band's dressing room at the Municipal Auditorium, in New Orleans. "Eric Clapton dies, right, and goes to...
June 16, 1988 9:55 AM ET
The Mona Lisa's Sister | ALBUM REVIEW

The Mona Lisa's Sister, Graham Parker's most compelling record in nearly a decade, is a raw meditation on desire and disappointment from a man who has felt — and feels — with a fierce intensity. In song...
May 19, 1988 12:00 AM ET
Naked | ALBUM REVIEW

And as things fell apart/Nobody paid much attention," sings David Byrne on "(Nothing but) Flowers," the energetic high-life romp that is the first single from the extraordinary new Talking Heads album, Naked. Byrne, however, is paying close...
April 7, 1988 12:00 AM ET
Monterey Pop Festival 1967 Live Tapes to Air | ARTICLE

Over the July 4th weekend, Radio Express will syndicate a nine-hour re-creation of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Drawing from tapes of the actual...
March 24, 1988 12:00 PM ET
The Lion And The Cobra | ALBUM REVIEW

Sinéad O'Connor's first album comes on like a banshee wail across the bogs. Blending the uncompromising force of folk music, the sonic adventurousness of the Eighties and lyrics that draw on classical history, ghost tales and the...
January 28, 1988 12:00 AM ET
The Lonesome Jubilee | ALBUM REVIEW

In dedicating his last album, Scarecrow, to his grandfather, who had recently died, John Mellencamp wrote, "There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands." That idea suffused the songs on Scarecrow, which was released...
October 8, 1987 12:00 AM ET
Keith Richards Set to Record First Solo LP | ARTICLE

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has signed a long-term record deal with Virgin Records worldwide and will soon begin work on his first...
September 10, 1987 12:00 PM ET
R.E.M. on Their 'Weird, Loose' Album 'Document' | ARTICLE

"This time around we wanted to make a tougher-edged record," says guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M.'s soon-to-be-released album, Document. "Lifes Rich Pageant...
August 27, 1987 4:05 PM ET
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) | ALBUM REVIEW

Despite the desperate surrender implied in the title, tom petty and the Heartbreakers come out standing tough and triumphant on Let Me Up (I've Had Enough). The eleven songs on the album chronicle characters who are reeling...
June 4, 1987 12:00 AM ET
Play Based On Dylan's Work To Open In San Francisco | ARTICLE

Dylan: Words and Music, a play based on the work of Bob Dylan, will open this April in San Francisco. Dylan has authorized...
March 12, 1987 11:45 AM ET