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| This regular feature will throw the spotlight on two issues of Beggars Banquet -- one from ten years ago and one from twenty years ago. I hope the audio and video clips will bring some of the events back to life. --Bill German | |
TEN YEARS AGO IN BEGGARS BANQUET |
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| This issue from 1992 (Volume 3, Number 9) details the Stones' reunion in London. Three-fifths of a reunion, that is. During England's National Music Day Festival, Mick, Ronnie, and Charlie each played a solo set at the Hammersmith Odeon, before teaming up for two songs at the end of the night. Keith, meanwhile, was back home in New York, working on his "Main Offender" album. (With the X-Pensive Winos, he would tour Europe and Argentina later in the year.) Ronnie was getting ready to tour the U.S. in the fall of 1992 and release his "Slide On This" album. And Charlie would go on to complete a six-night stint with his jazz quintet at the Blue Note in New York. (This issue is still available for purchase on the Issues page.) | |
| AUDIO: Click here to listen to Mick performing "Everybody Knows About My
Good Thing" during his 1992 National Music Day appearance at London's
Hammersmith Odeon. VIDEO: Click here to view Ronnie's video for "Somebody Else Might," a track off his 1992 "Slide On This" album. |
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TWENTY YEARS AGO IN BEGGARS BANQUET |
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| This issue, from 1982 (Volume 1, Number 27) details the Stones' "Tattoo
You" tour of Europe that year. The Stones kicked off their journey
with four surprise warm-up shows in Scotland and England -- which the band
referred to as "commando raids." For the three gigs in Scotland, the
average capacity was less than 3,000 people. And for the "commando
raid" in London, at a tiny nightclub on Oxford Street, the audience numbered
a few hundred. In the band's repertoire that night was the Big Bopper
chestnut, "Chantilly Lace." The scheduled part of the tour kicked off
in Holland, where, on a night off in The Hague, Mick joined George Thorogood
in a nightclub to perform "Around And Around." Meanwhile, back in the
U.S., Rolling Stones Records was releasing "Still Life," the fourth live
album of the Stones' career.
VIDEO: Click here to view the promotional video for "Time Is On My Side," released in conjunction with the "Still Life" album.
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