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Keith Richards Meets the Mounties and Faces the Music | ARTICLE
My cab is cruising through the winding entrance of the Harbour Castle Hilton in Toronto, temporary home for the Rolling Stones, and I...
October 17, 2012 1:07 PM ET -
Doc Watson and His Tall Drink O' Water Merle | ARTICLE
Merle Watson has a strong set of credentials for a young musician. Besides being the 24-year-old son of the preeminent guitar picker, Doc Watson, Merle is also his father's extremely competent accompanist on banjo and second guitar....
May 30, 2012 11:25 AM ET -
The Unsinkable Dolly Parton | ARTICLE
There are few vistas more majestic than Central Park in autumn from the twenty-sixth floor of a Fifth Avenue apartment. Late-afternoon sunlight softly gilds...
December 11, 1980 4:35 PM ET -
The Rolling Stones Grow Old Angrily | ARTICLE
I'm 'fraid rock & roll has no future," Mick Jagger said. His famous lips formed a perfect moue of distaste, as if they...
August 21, 1980 9:30 AM ET -
Silver | ALBUM REVIEW
Good news from the Cash-Carter camp: Johnny Cash, after years of phonographic complacency, has shaken the dust off his career and given us a splendid LP, Silver, which marks his twenty-fifth year as a recording artist. Surprisingly,...
February 7, 1980 12:00 AM ET -
After the Who's Cincinnati Concert Disaster, A Promoter Under Fire | ARTICLE
Less than two years ago, Peter Wertimer, a former employee of promoter Larry Magid's Electric Factory Concerts, warned of the possibility of just such...
January 24, 1980 12:00 PM ET -
Rock and Roll Tragedy: Why Eleven Died at The Who's Cincinnati Concert | ARTICLE
At about 7:15 on the evening of December 3rd, 1979, Larry Magid sat down to dinner with Frank Wood in the luxurious Beehive Club,...
January 24, 1980 12:00 PM ET -
Teenager Dies in Keith Richards' New York Home | ARTICLE
A seventeen-year-old boy was found dead July 20th in Keith Richards' bed in his palatial home in South Salem, New York. Scott Cantrell,...
September 6, 1979 2:20 PM ET -
Stones Serve Out Keith Richards' Sentence | ARTICLE
As The New Barbarians — Ron Wood and Keith Richards' quasi-Stones group - finished their first set at Civic Auditorium, the stage lights...
May 31, 1979 11:55 AM ET -
Sweet Memories | ALBUM REVIEW
I own Willie Nelson records on the following labels: Columbia, Lone Star, RCA, United Artists, Liberty, Atlantic, Capricorn, Diplomat, Sunset, Double Barrel, Plantation and a couple of others I forget right now. Obviously, the man has been...
April 19, 1979 12:00 AM ET -
Willie And Family Live | ALBUM REVIEW
I own Willie Nelson records on the following labels: Columbia, Lone Star, RCA, United Artists, Liberty, Atlantic, Capricorn, Diplomat, Sunset, Double Barrel, Plantation and a couple of others I forget right now. Obviously, the man has been...
April 19, 1979 12:00 AM ET -
Face Of A Fighter | ALBUM REVIEW
I own Willie Nelson records on the following labels: Columbia, Lone Star, RCA, United Artists, Liberty, Atlantic, Capricorn, Diplomat, Sunset, Double Barrel, Plantation and a couple of others I forget right now. Obviously, the man has been...
April 19, 1979 12:00 AM ET -
Keith Richards Guilty — But Free | ARTICLE
In a surprise decision here October 24th, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards received a one-year suspended sentence and was placed on a...
November 30, 1978 10:15 AM ET -
The Rolling Stones: The Road Ain't What It Used to Be | ARTICLE
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was . . . -Daniel 12:1
September 7, 1978 4:55 PM ET -
Rolling Stones Gather Momentum | ARTICLE
It may have been the most patchwork tour they ever threw together — Stones insiders still insist that Mick Jagger...
July 27, 1978 12:35 PM ET -
Hot Stuff From Mick and Keith | ARTICLE
NEW YORK—Mick Jagger – looking almost anonymous in his black-leather flak jacket and jeans – settles into a back table at his favorite Chinese restaurant here and, armed only with chopsticks, prepares to fend off questions...
November 3, 1977 11:40 AM ET -
Keith Richards Busted: Stone's Future Cloudy | ARTICLE
Toronto — Keith Richards' view from the Harbour Castle Hilton is the slate gray Toronto harbor. Across that bleak expanse is a low...
April 7, 1977 10:50 AM ET -
More Clouds Over Dylan's Hurricane Benefit | ARTICLE
New York — Partly because of a Rolling Stone investigation (RS 233) and partly due to requests from constituents, United States Representative Edward...
March 24, 1977 3:25 PM ET -
'Hard Rain,' Hard Rock, Hard Sell | ARTICLE
It may be Bob Dylan's greatest achievement to seem impenetrable even when engaged in the utterly ordinary. "Enigmatic like a fox," the New...
October 21, 1976 3:00 PM ET -
Mick Jagger Breaks Down 'Black and Blue' | ARTICLE
NEW YORK — With a new album and European and American tours planned this year, the Rolling Stones are back and Mick...
May 6, 1976 12:00 PM ET
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