................ Promo-card for upcoming book celebrating Rolling Stones 50th

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This last is great!

* His Majesty, Prince Jones smiled as he moved among the crowd *

wow - sense-surround!

..................... art of england --- Issue 88 -- December 2011

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From the booklet of the American Folk Blues Festival Box

Just watching the DVD tonight:


















"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

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That woman has one xpression

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This might be my new favorite latter day Keith picture. he looks liker a witch doctor.

......................... HELLO! - January 2012

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............... Indestructable - 50 years With A Rolling Stone - Andrew P Street
.....................Australian Guitar - Vol89 - 2012

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Check out the book Brian is reading to compliment his dulcimer playing...In Cold Blood... peace

ohh thank you Rock Man

In Cold Blood ...... yeah and then later on Truman went on
the road with the Stones and Keef squashed a hamburger onto his hotel door

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Great new Keef's front-cover magazine Rockman!
Can you post a good quality A4 size scan of this front-cover please?
Thanks in advance!

Chris

Great new Keef's front-cover magazine Rockman!
Can you post a good quality A4 size scan of this front-cover please?
Thanks in advance!...........Chris....

here ya go chris...hope it's what ya want....






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Yes,it is my friend!

Thanks for your kind help!

Regards from Paris!

Chris

................................................................ Rhythms - January 2012

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great article on Keef, and Eagle company.
Lookforward tothe docu
Thanks Rockman!!
jeroen

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................. I Prefer You --- Chess Studio, Chicago - 16 October 1966

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Legendary producer Winston Riley is dead
by Howard Campbell Observer senior writer

Saturday, January 21, 2012




WINSTON Riley, the singer/producer whose career spanned 50 years, died Thursday evening at the University Hospital of the West Indies. He was 65 years old.

Kurt Riley, one of Riley's children, told the Observer that his father had been hospitalised since last November when he was shot in the head at his St Andrew home.


Riley had been in an induced coma and had briefly come off life support, his son said.

The police have made no arrest in the incident which came months after Riley's landmark store, Techniques record store on Orange Street, downtown Kingston, was destroyed by fire.

Kingsley Goodison honoured Riley for his contribution to the development of Jamaican music at the 2009 staging of his Tribute To The Greats awards ceremony. He described him as an 'unsung hero' of the local music business.

"He really produced some outstanding songs. Very few people in the business worked harder than Winston Riley," Goodison said.

Four years ago, Riley established a museum dedicated to the history of Jamaican pop music in downtown Kingston.

Born in the west Kingston community of Denham Town, Winston Riley started his career in the early 1960s as a performer on the Vere Johns Opportunity Hour. In 1964, he became a member of harmony group, The Techniques, which recorded for producer Arthur 'Duke' Reid's Treasure Isle label.

Led by the gifted singer, Keith 'Slim' Smith, the original Techniques line-up had hits in the ska era with Little Did You Know. The group excelled when ska evolved into rock steady, becoming one of the genre's top acts.

Riley was with the Techniques during their glory years, appearing on big hits like Love Is Not a Gamble, My Girl and Travelling Man. He left the group in the late 1960s and went into production, launching his Techniques label.

He had instant success with Double Barrell, a massive hit in Britain in 1971 for Dave Barker and Ansell Collins. Around the same time, Riley produced Come Back Darling which was done by singer Johnny Osbourne.

In the 1970s, Riley teamed with Collins and the Soul Syndicate Band to cut the Stalag 'riddim' which has spawned some of the biggest hits in dancehall music, such as General Echo's Arlene and Ring The Alarm by Tenor Saw.

Ring The Alarm was recorded on an updated Stalag in the 1980s when computerised beats took over Jamaican popular music. Riley embraced the new sound and had an impressive run throughout the decade with several upcoming artistes.

Some of the acts who scored for Riley during this period were Super Cat (Boops), Sister Charmaine (Granny Advice), Red Dragon (Hol' A Fresh), Sanchez (Loneliness) and Spanner Banner (Life Goes On).

Kurt Riley says his father never stopped trying to break new ground.

"He always wanted people to be creative and original, he didn't want people to re-create the wheel," Kurt Riley said. "He wanted reggae and dancehall to cross new boundaries."

Winston Riley was pre-deceased by his wife Yvonne and younger brother Buster, also a producer. He is survived by several children and grandchildren.

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................................ THE AUSTRALIAN - 23 January 2012

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Croft(left) 1975

Fifty years ago, an enthusiastic young man entered the world of showbusiness
and went on to play a leading role in changing the face of concert touring.
Jerry Gilbert celebrates the legend that is Brian Croft...

Right in the front line of many early technology-pioneering tours was Brian Croft
whose classical upbringing in mainstream theatre was traded for rock’n’roll
at the end of the 1960s when the Rolling Stones gave him his big break.

one day E.H.B. Monck — a.k.a Chipmonck — arrived with the Chambers Brothers.
Monck went on, shortly after, to put together all technical operations at Woodstock
and then to be the Rolling Stones’right hand production man.

Having established a good relationship with Monck, Croft received a fateful call
from the Stones office in December 1969,
a few days after the much-publicised tragedy at Altamont,
to say the band were planning to play some pre-Christmas London dates
at very short notice and asked Croft if he could do some groundwork.

"They did one show at the Saville Theatre and one at the Lyceum
— so my first ever rock'n'roll gigs were for the Stones.
Chip brought some of the lighting with him, which we hung on the theatre flying bars,"
remembers Croft.
"We used Century tungsten 2kW fresnels, as PAR cans didn’t exist then."
Century was a Broadway theatrical lighting company that was eventually taken over by Strand.

MONSTER TOUR
While Tychobrae was the chosen sound contractor for the Stones' 1973 tour —
for which it used the blue carpeted Cerwin-Vega! speakers
— the contract for the band's '75 tour moved to Clair Bros, and later again to Showco.

Brian Croft was stage manager, Patrick Stansfield was production manager
and Peter Rudge, tour director.
The set design was by Robin Wagner and the lighting design by Broadway theatre specialist, Jules Fisher.

"It was a monster 30-truck tour — the first really grown-up tour, I think," says Croft.
"But the costs were enormous and it didn't make much money.
For the next European tour in 1976, Peter Rudge was much more cost-conscious
and asked me to be production manager,
and for my company, ESP Lighting, to be the overall production controller.

"We reverted to Chip’s famous mirror out front/Supers on-stage format, except for the Earls Court gig
where we used the mechanised 'lotus' stage from the'75 USA tour.

"I think we brought in the whole 10-week tour production
— stage roof, sound and light, trucking, crew transportation and hotels — for about £300,000.
That wouldn't go far these days.

more story-Brian Croft

I'm still wonderin' why , I like to collect magazines



Oz Everybody's
April 6.1966



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StonesCave

Hello Rockman!

Thanks for this "Everybody's" front-cover!

Have you the issue from March 3rd, 1966 with Stones'cover (Stones at the bath)?
Can you post a good scan of it?

Thanks in advance!

All the best

Chris

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Girls of Newcastle? That's interesting and one on the best tans I've seen on an English bird. Rockee where do you come up with this stuff? You are da man! peace

I think if you all look more closely you'll see that the scan of "Everybody's" was provided by Honestman!


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

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