We’ll have a bit more to say on Keith Richards’ new magnum opus once we’ve been through it a few more times, but in the meantime we thought we’d acknowledge the man as one of the leading style icons of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Today marks the street date for the new reissue of the Stones’ Exile on Main Street, for our money the best blues-rock has to offer. The original album comes bundled with a slew of dropped tracks and other completist candy, but the big news is a handful of unfinished songs that the Glimmer Twins went back in the studio to finish up.
More importantly, they’re keeping the gloriously muddy mix intact. If you don’t have a copy of your own, now’s your chance to catch up.
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Lit Up: Italian magazines live in a completely different world from us. In a good way. [Velvet]
The Answer is Always Street Legal: A handy guide to navigating the catalog of Bob Dylan. We suggest focusing on the fertile decade of the 70s. [The Morning News]
The Exile Years: Mick and Keef reminisce on the recording of Exile on Main Street. Awesome stuff. [The Q]
Get Gone: Newsweek makes a pretty strong case for pissing off to foreign lands for a few years. [Newsweek]
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Duty Calls: We try to stay up to date on the latest bikini trends. [Refinery29]
Drink Up: Your July 4th beer count does not, in fact, have anything to do with your increasing rotundity. [Slashfood]
Exiles: A few early 70s snaps of the Rolling Stones in action. (Subscribers only.) [WWD]
Geometry: Rubik (of the famous cube) has a new toy in the works. We’re predicting something in a tesseract.
[TG Daily]
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We’ve been under no illusions as to Mick Jagger‘s impressive fecundity, but we thought we’d seen all the gorgeous children the wrinkly Rolling Stone planned to crank out in this lifetime. Turns out we overlooked Georgia May, 16, his drop-dead daughter by legendary stunner Jerry Hall.
Georgia just made her modeling debut in the UK for the *Mail on Sunday*’s You magazine, and we think the girl’s gonna go places. She’s got the signature lippage, for one thing, and has obviously been practicing poppa’s pout. And in case you’re wondering what it’s like having Mick as a dad, Georgie confesses to the mag, “He’s not as cool as you’d think he’d be.”
Oh well.
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By now, you’d think someone else would have come along to usurp Keith Richards’ as the archetype of sex, drugs and rock & roll style. As a group, the geriatric juggernaut that is the Rolling Stones seems a bit comic with their never-ending world touring, but while the rest of the band looks like they’ve traded hookers and blow for Depends and Metamucil, Keef keeps rocking on.
He’s not carefully-maintained and certainly not well-preserved, but rather perfectly and stylishly weathered.
A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood: Please join us
on March 20th by
honor of Mr. Rogers, won’t you? [
Teenage Wasteland: Okay! Enough with the
Kennedy
already. [Everyone, Everywhere]
Man of Letters: Original
king, Goldwater Conservative and trad icon William F. Buckley
grabs a wing chair in that great club room in the sky. [Observer]
Theme Song: Remember
Their new tribute to Milan Fashion week is called, “Coke Freaks and
Fashion Whores.” Sounds right to us. [
“You’ll Never Go Wrong Dressing Plain and Dull”: This
only works when running for national office. Otherwise, feel free to
dress like a
elder. [
Tribune]
The Keith Richards Workout: “For me, doing a Rolling
Stones show for two hours a night, that’s enough f***in’ exercise, you
know? Then I’ve got to go to bed with the old lady, bonka bonka. You
know?” We know, Keef. We know. [Digital
Spy]
Simple Statutes: Oh, sorry, did we forget to post
Esquire’s New Laws of Casual Style? Here, let’s fix
that. [Esquire]
Back before they turned into the geriatric juggernaut that seems to be on a never-ending world tour, the Rolling Stones were the coolest rock band in the universe. In 1969, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the gang crisscrossed the country in support of their album *Beggar’s Banquet*, culminating in the infamous free concert at Altamont in Northern California where Hell’s Angels killed a member of the audience.
Photographer Ethan Russell was with them every step of the way »
