1966 – Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde At 71 minutes, Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde fits on one CD. Of course with CD’s becoming increasingly irrelevant, what does that really matter? Which leads me to a bit of a meditation on what constitutes a double album in the digital era? How long does an album [...]

The Beatles The fab four are actually a bit late to the box set game as they are finally (in 2009) releasing their first CD box sets (I know, I know, what about the Capital Box Sets? Eh…) Of course they are doing it in style with not just one box set but two. There’s [...]

As a follow-up to my last post on the top 10 artists on Last.FM, I thought it’d be interesting to look at the top 10 artists who released most of their music in the 60s and 70s are. I think this gives a good idea of which “classic” artists have continued to stay relevant not [...]

“Ruby Tuesday” was written by Keith Richards and recorded by The Rolling Stones in 1966. It hit #1 on the US singles charts on March 4th of 1967. It stayed at #1 for one week before being knocked off the top spot by “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone” by The Supremes. The song [...]

Brian Jones was born on February 28th of 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He was a founding member of The Rolling Stones and is credited for coming up with their name by Keith Richards. Jones was known as a great musician (multi-instrumentalist) and he played a big part in Stones albums such as 1966′s Aftermath [...]

Check out John Lennon doing “Yer Blues” (from The White Album) with the help of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, & Mitch Mitchell. Lennon called this super group “The Dirty Mac.” It features a ridiculous introductory conversation between Lennon and Mick Jagger. This performance was part of The Rolling Stones Rock N Roll Circus which is [...]

Keith Richards was born on December 18th of 1943 in England. He is best known as the lead guitarist and co-songwriter (with Mick Jagger) of The Rolling Stones. Richards also occasionally sings lead vocals on Rolling Stones songs; He sang the first verse of “Salt of the Earth” from Beggars Banquet (1968), he sang “You [...]

During the year of 1964 there were only four different albums to reach #1 on the UK album charts. This is remarkable especially in comparison with modern times. For example, this year there have already been 31 #1 albums on the UK album charts. Of those four #1 albums in 1964, three of them were [...]

Goats Head Soup became The Rolling Stones’ 8th UK #1 album on September 22, 1973. The album also reached #1 in the US (on October 13th.) It’s most well known song is the #1 US single (#5 in the UK) “Angie.” While, “Angie” was a big hit and the album did reach #1 in both [...]

Mick Jagger was born in Kent, England on July 26, 1943. Jagger is lead singer for The Rolling Stones. He is one half of the Jagger/Richards (Keith Richards, lead guitarist) songwriting team that has written most of The Rolling Stones songs. The band has released 22 studio albums. Their most recent being A Bigger Bang [...]