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Bill Wyman ponders life after the
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Pith & Wind - The other Bill
I
first saw the Rolling Stones at the Theatre
Royal in Christchurch when they came down
to the Antipodes back in 1965. On the same
show were Roy Orbison, The Newbeats and
Ray Columbus and the Invaders, so it was
typical of the package shows so popular
at the time. Speaking of which, people forget
that the Beatles’ Australasian shows
had the same package format with a cast
that comprised of a compere/comedian (Wikipedia
says he was Alan Field), Aussie acts Johnny
Chester and The Phantoms, English band Sounds
Incorporated and Kiwi rocker Johnny Devlin
all appearing before the Beatles, now replete
with a tonsil-less Ringo Starr, who played
their song list of perhaps a dozen songs
in record time.
The Stones were touted as the opposite of
The Beatles in nearly every respect, which
intelligence was provided by the band’s
canny manager at the time, Andrew Loog Oldham,
who saw a niche for a bad and dangerous
alternative to the wholesome image of the
four Liverpudlians. Well, niche is probably
the wrong word. The landscape was comparatively
barren in those days and there hadn’t
been a serious rival to The Beatles’
since they’d suddenly been catapulted
into stardom, first in the UK and then in
the colonies, so the unruly alternative
Stones occupied the entire other half of
the pop music horizon.
I can remember when I first heard the band’s
name, The Rolling Stones. I was begrudgingly
working a holiday job with the local council
when I overheard this.. read
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| Dick's
Toolbox - The
Unkindly Ones
It is not often that I advise not reading
a book, but having waded with great fear,
loathing and dismay through 950 odd pages
of ‘The Kindly Ones’ by Jonathan
Littell I would recommend giving it a miss.
It won two of the most prestigious French
literary awards, the Grand Prix du roman
de l'Académie Française and
the Prix Goncourt but it is a gravely flawed
novel veering between the utmost horror
and unintentional farce. But, and this gives
a way a few key plot points, if you are
partial to a deeply researched story of
a homosexual Nazi SS with a classical background,
deeply involved in genocide, who kills his
parents and sleeps with his sister then
this may be the book you were searching
for. I doubt it somehow.
I thought I might, at this point, segue
into a deep discussion about ethics and
morality - what turns nations into mass
murderers - but then I thought the better
of it and decided to write about.. read
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