Rolling Stones

2022 - 8 - 28

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'My Life as a Rolling Stone' Is a Tribute to Charlie Watts -- and Gives ... (Rolling Stone)

Four-part docuseries shines a light on Mick, Keef, Ronnie and their late drummer, reminding us why they remain the gold standard of rock bands.

[Ron Wood](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/ron-wood/) episode is similarly eye-opening, not just for his chameleonic musicianship and Zelig-like role in mid-century British Invasion rock — as Rod Stewart’s foil in the Faces and owner of “The Wick,” the legendary London townhouse/studio/hangout — but also for his little-brother role in the Stones social dynamic. But Richards crammed on Beatles records, too, trying to suss out the secret of writing great pop songs, which he soon did — as Jagger points out, he’s the guy who wrote “As Tears Go By” and “Angie” alongside the haunted sorcery of “Gimme Shelter.” That a new generation of musicians can learn about that, and more, is justification enough for the whole project. Mirroring the call-and-response weaving of his guitar lines was the emotional weaving he did behind the scenes, shoring up bonds between Jagger and Richards when they were at their most frayed, and he’s credited here with literally saving the band. “The best drummer England has ever produced,” as Richards calls him, was the band’s oldest member, and Watts testifies in old clips about his love of jazz (as a young player, he aspired mainly to be Chico Hamilton backing up Gerry Mulligan), and how much he disdained the madness of fame (“I hated being chased by girls,” he declares unequivocally; “it was embarrassing”). Watts could perfectly mimic Dre’s beats on The Chronic, while his dressing room, known as “The Cotton Club,” was set up as a sanctuary where Ellington recordings reliably set the mood. And debate the merits of stadium-sized corporate Stones vs the more human-scaled ‘70s version all you like, but the sight of ecstatic Cubans feeling the band at Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana stadium in 2016 (see also: the The most compelling episodes of My Life, in fact, are about Watts and Wood; their stories map the band’s symbiosis, and nicely complicate the standard Jagger/Richards Glimmer Twins mythology. Joining these and subsequent Stones films, jostling for space in the flood of other pandemic-born music docs, is the four-part My Life as a Rolling Stone, which begs the inevitable question: Beyond cash-grab brand-building, what’s the point of yet another film about this band? But what’s striking about this surprisingly satisfying docuseries (currently running on Epix) whose dubious conceit is devoting a full episode to each of the group’s four tenured members, is how effectively it shows the Stones’ magic as being fully about the sum of its parts. For sure, there’s plenty of mythology, dished up in Sienna Miller’s History Channel narration and a parade of beheaded talking heads (virtually all non-Stones soundbites are delivered in voiceover). [The Rolling Stones](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/the-rolling-stones/) have been doing Rolling Stones documentaries for nearly as long as they’ve been a band, and given their early goes, it’s impressive they’ve kept at it.

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The Rolling Stones' 'Tumbling Dice': Admit It, You Don't Know the ... (Best Classic Bands)

You've sung it at a bar and in your car. You've even shouted them at the top of your lungs at a Stones concert. But do you know them all?

The Stones released a lyric video for the song on Aug. She says Jagger wrote out the lyrics for her. and #7 in the U.S., a success by most standards, though short of the Stones’ occasional #1 perch. for the first time. And as the lead single from the Stones’ great double album, 1972’s Exile on Main Street, you’ve heard it dozens, if not hundreds, of times. You’ve sung those lyrics from “Tumbling Dice” at a bar and in your car.

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The Rolling Stones' 'Tumbling Dice': Admit It, You Don't Know the ... (Best Classic Bands)

You've sung it at a bar and in your car. You've even shouted them at the top of your lungs at a Stones concert. But do you know them all?

The Stones released a lyric video for the song on Aug. She says Jagger wrote out the lyrics for her. and #7 in the U.S., a success by most standards, though short of the Stones’ occasional #1 perch. for the first time. And as the lead single from the Stones’ great double album, 1972’s Exile on Main Street, you’ve heard it dozens, if not hundreds, of times. You’ve sung those lyrics from “Tumbling Dice” at a bar and in your car.

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Takeaways From Rolling Stone's and Variety2022 Truth Seekers ... (Rolling Stone)

A key point in the event, documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple was awarded the Truth Seekers Award for Documentary Filmmaking. She joined Variety contributor ...

With Rolling Stone editor Brenna Ehrlich, the speakers discussed how to discover your story, the dramatic structure of a true crime tale, and the purpose the genre can serve for social change. Kamau Bell, executive producer and director of We Need to Talk About Cosby, took to the stage shortly after with Rolling Stone news director Jason Newman. Together, they discussed discerning truth in media and the importance of authenticity with Rolling Stone editor-in-chief, Noah Schachtman.

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Trump Bragged He Had 'Intelligence' on Macron's Sex Life (Rolling Stone)

The FBI seized a document with “info” on the French President during the Mar-a-Lago raid, and that has officials in both countries nervous.

Trump’s former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham also wrote in a memoir that Trump had privately called Macron a “a wuss guy” and “a hundred twenty pounds of fury.” During the 2016 presidential contest, Trump briefly ducked into his campaign “war room” and teased mid-level staffers with some alleged intel — on a pair of MSNBC hosts who weren’t yet public about their romance. But Macron shrugged off the flirtation with his rival and invited Trump as the guest of honor to a Bastille Day parade in 2017. “One day, I’ll tell you all about it.” Trump didn’t even know these campaign staffers’ names, [but felt comfortable dishing this to them](https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1223969503681433601). After disputes between the two leaders over Iran, Syria, and NATO, Trump could be heard blasting Macron as a “ Trump was so taken with the elaborate military pageantry on display that it inspired him to ask for a [military parade of his own](https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-july-4th-has-everything-tanks-trumpand-scandal). “It is often,” one of the sources says, “hard to tell if he’s bullshitting or not.” president once labeling his French counterpart “my guy” before the two fell out during Trump’s time in the White House. The officials in both nations wanted to know if this discovery signified some kind of national-security breach — or if it amounted to a frivolous, but stolen, keepsake. officials worked to figure out precisely what Trump had on Macron and France’s government, and if any of it was sensitive in nature, the sources said. And the former president even claimed that he learned about some of this dirt through “intelligence” he had seen or been briefed on, these sources say. But the mere revelation of its existence triggered a trans-Atlantic freakout, according to two other sources familiar with the situation.

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Trump bragged to aides about having dirt on Macron's sex life: report (Business Insider)

Rolling Stone reported that Trump boasted to his close associates that he had scandalous information on French President Emmanuel Macron.

[berated Macron for making "very, very nasty" statements](https://www.businessinsider.com/nato-summit-trump-macron-nasty-comment-2019-12?_ga=2.264146639.230228052.1661760411-675496000.1645110371) on the sidelines of a NATO summit. [documents found by the FBI](https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-11-sets-classified-documents-mar-a-lago-raid-2022-8) during its raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this month. [Former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-called-french-president-emmanuel-macron-a-wuss-guy-book-says-2021-10) also wrote in her book that Trump privately called Macron "a wuss guy" and commented that the French leader was "all of hundred twenty pounds of fury." Rolling Stone spoke to two anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, who told the publication that Trump had been gossiping about Macron's love life — both during his time in the White House and after. ["great relationship" with Macron,](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-macron-loves-holding-my-hand-2017-7) this swiftly devolved after Macron [threatened to exclude Trump](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/frances-macron-threatens-rare-rebuke-of-trump-at-g-7-says-us-faces-isolation/2018/06/07/f73f3de8-6a99-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html) from a G7 joint declaration of unity in 2018. [Jennifer Palmieri](https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-clinton-aide-implies-trump-kompromat-macron-useful-putin-2022-8), a former aide to Hillary Clinton, speculated last week that this file could be "kompromat," a term for damaging information that can be used for blackmail.

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The TikTok Lesbian Breakup Apocalypse Is Upon Us (Rolling Stone)

From "Becky's So Hot" to JoJo Siwa and the infamous mukbang video, here's the origins of the TikTok lesbian breakup curse.

“Remixing my attitude to avoid the lesbian breakup curse that’s been going around,” says one such [video](https://www.tiktok.com/@ciara_appelbaum6/video/7128438613477559595?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexerto.com%2F&referer_video_id=7128438613477559595&refer=embed&referer_url=https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/why-are-tiktokers-scared-of-the-lesbian-breakup-curse-1911262/). [Don’t Let This Flop](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-let-this-flop-this-week-in-tiktok/id1582031442) is released Wednesdays on all audio streaming platforms, including [Apple ](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-let-this-flop-this-week-in-tiktok/id1582031442) [Podcasts](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/podcast/), [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/34Uvt9Zm4GUAAJVzP91HXA), [Amazon Music](https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6012d7bd-5a83-431c-8f05-b6ed615d9744/don%E2%80%99t-let-this-flop-this-week-in-tiktok), [Stitcher](https://www.stitcher.com/show/rolling-stone-dont-let-this-flop) and [more](https://pod.link/1582031442). [said](https://twitter.com/CFletcherNews/status/1549795734698049538?s=20&t=Zo9RufUp9QRhd58LjNH6nA) that she wrote the song after accidentally liking one of Missal’s photos on Instagram, in which Missal was wearing one of Beveridge’s vintage T-shirts, leading to the lyric “Becky’s so hot in your vintage T-shirt” in the chorus. Not everything has to be messy and gross because it’s not, and I just want to clear the air.” Despite Prew’s insistence that not everything had to be messy, however, people on TikTok immediately made it so. After first breaking up in November 2021, the two appeared to reunite in a cuddly Instagram post in Disney World in May 2022. (Sedona, a college basketball player, is 6’7″, while Rylee is 4’9″.) After releasing their tearful Fletcher recently broke up with Shannon Beveridge, a YouTuber (coincidentally, Beveridge also made headlines with her own breakup video from her ex Cammie Scott in 2016). Many on TikTok have responded with glee over the mess, but some have also questioned the ethics of her explicitly naming her ex-partner’s new girlfriend without her explicit consent. [said](https://pagesix.com/2022/08/18/jojo-siwa-and-kylie-prew-split-again-after-brief-reunion/) in the video. A real-life version of the Chart is currently unfolding on Fletcher has

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The Rolling Stones songs that Mick Jagger called “terrible” (Far Out Magazine)

Revisiting comments made by Mick Jagger ahead of the release about The Rolling Stones re-release of 'Goats Head Soup' when he called three songs "terrible".

The idea of Jimmy Page colliding with The Stones when they were in their golden eras seemed nothing but a pipedream, but the long-lost ‘Scarlet’ lived up to lofty expectations. That’s always my initial reaction, ‘They’re all useless!’ I mean, actually, I always liked the songs, but they weren’t finished”. Surprisingly, it didn’t even coincide with a notable anniversary of the album, and the reissue was strangely shared to celebrate the LP’s 47th birthday. Page’s work alongside The Rolling Stones needed to be heard by all fans, and after it had been tweaked slightly, Jagger agreed too. The idea to revisit the album came from Polydor Records, who had discovered the hat-trick of iconic songs hidden in their vault. With that sentiment, when the band stumbled upon some previously lost songs, Jagger initially resisted the urge to release the material and labelled them “terrible”.

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