Status Quo "Frantic Four Reunion Tour" 2014 (DE)

After the successful shows last year in England, Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan are back together on tour and they will play 3 shows in Germany:

18.03.2014

20:00 Uhr

Berlin

o2 World

 

19.03.2014

20:00 Uhr

Oberhausen

König-Pilsener-Arena

 

21.03.2014

20:00 Uhr

Stuttgart

Hans-Martin-Schleyer-Halle

You will find more informations about the "Frantic Four"-Tour and the Tour with Andrew Bowen, John "Rhino" Edwards and Leon Cave: Status Quo Website 

L'Wren Scott tot in New Yorker Wohnung aufgefunden / Mick Jagger's Girlfriend L'Wren Scott Found Dead

Die langjährige Freundin von Mick Jaggers ist tot in ihrer New Yorker Wohnung von ihrer Assistentin gefunden worden.

Von Mick auf Facebook:

I am still struggling to understand how my lover and best friend could end her life in this tragic way.

We spent many wonderful years together and had made a great life for ourselves.

She had great presence and her talent was much admired, not least by me.

I have been touched by the tributes that people have paid to her, and also the personal messages of support that I have received.

I will never forget her,
Mick

Messages from Keith, Charlie and Ronnie on facebook:

Keith Richards:
“No-one saw this coming…Mick’s always been my soul brother and we love him…we’re thick as thieves and we’re all feeling for the man…we really hate to disappoint our fans but we’ll see everyone really soon.”

Charlie Watts:
"Needless to say we are all completely shocked but our first thought is to support Mick at this awful time. We intend to come back to Australia and New Zealand as soon as it proves possible.”

Ronnie Wood:
"This is such terrible news and right now the important thing is that we are all pulling together to offer Mick our support and help him through this sad time. Without a doubt we intend to be back out on that stage as soon as we can."



Zeitungsmeldungen dazu:

• Mick Jaggers Freundin L’Wren Scott tot in New York aufgefunden

• BBC News: Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott found dead

• K-Hits Chicago: L'Wren Scott, Fashion Designer  & Mick Jagger's Girlfriend, Found Dead

Hier ein Nachruf auf Sie im Spiegelonline:http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/l-w…n-a-959379.html

Here is a Vogue's tribute to the elegant designer L'Wren Scott:
http://video.vogue.com/watch/a-tribute-to-l-wren-scott 

Keith Richards To Published Children's Book with Daughter Theo: Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar

Publication Date for Print and Digital is Sep 9, 2014

Pre-orders are being taken now at at Barnes & Noble or Amazon. Check your favorite retailer in the coming days.

New York, NY [March 11, 2014] — Megan Tingley, Executive Vice President and Publisher, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, announced today the upcoming picture book publication of Gus & Me: 

The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar from world-renowned Rolling Stones rock star Keith Richards, with illustrations by his artist daughter, Theodora Richards. Inspired by a childhood experience shared in Richards’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Life, the story was written with Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro and will simultaneously release in hardcover and ebook on September 9, 2014, with the hardcover edition including an exclusive audio CD featuring bonus book content. The author and artist were represented in the deal by Richards’s manager, Jane Rose, and Ed Victor Ltd..... [shortened].

Overview

Long before there was a band, there was a boy: a young Keith Richards who was introduced to the joy of music through his beloved granddad, Theodore Augustus Dupree, affectionately known as "Gus," who was in a jazz big band and is the namesake of Keith's daughter, Theodora Dupree Richards. Gus & Me offers a rare and intimate look into the childhood of the legendary Keith Richards through this poignant and inspiring story that is lovingly illustrated with Theodora Richards's exquisite pen-and-ink collages. This unique autobiographical picture book honors the special bond between a grandfather and grandson and celebrates the artistic talents of the Richards family through the generations. It will also include selected photographs from the Richards family collection, and the hardcover edition will include an exclusive audio CD featuring bonus book content.

Product Details

• ISBN-13: 9780316320658
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 9/9/2014
• Pages: 32

Hardcover  $14.48

 

Happy Birthday, Miss Wilson!

Bill Wyman´s Rhythm Kings at Parkstad Limburg Theater, Heerlen, 27th September 2012, a photo by inesmusicpics on Flickr.

We met the birthday girl for the first time on a Bill Wyman´s Rhythm Kings tour and were impressed with her voice and stage presence. Ms Wilson is best known for beeing a founding member of The Supremes.

The Rattles Tour Dates 2014 (DE)

(c) inesmusicpics (Hamburg, Downtown Bluesclub)
 
2014
18.07.2014 Essen, WDR 4 Kultnacht
16.08.2014 NDR Sommertour, HH-Billstedt
06.09.2014 Hochdorf, Brauereifest
18.10.2014 Oer-Erkenschwik
25.10.2014 Salzgitter-Bad, Aula Gymnasium
15.11.2014 Storchenkeller, Winnenden
16.11.2014 Storchenkeller, Winnenden
30.11.2014 Wahlstedt, Kleines Theater, Am Markt
13.12.2014 Hamburg, Downtown Blues Club

Band:
Herbert Hildebrandt, bass, voc
Dicky Tarrach, dr
Eggert Johannsen, git, voc
Manne Kraski, git, voc
Webseite

James Taylor on Tour 2014 (European Tour)

2014 European Tour
Departs August 27		Queen Mary 2		JT and band will perform two shows during the eight-day cruise from New York, NY to Southampton, UK.
September 5	Plymouth, UK	Plymouth Pavilions	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
September 10	Stavanger, Norway	Zetlitz Stavanger Konserthus	Tickets: Billettportalen	On sale now
September 13	Oslo, Norway	Oslo Konserthus	Tickets: Billetservice	On sale now
September 14	Stockholm, Sweden	Cirkus	Tickets: Juliusbiljettservice.se	On sale now
September 16	Copenhagen, Denmark	Falconer Salen	Tickets: Billetlugen	On sale now
September 17	Aarhus, Denmark	Musichuset	Tickets: Billetlugen	On sale now
September 19	Brussels, Belgium	Cirque Royal	Tickets: Cirque-Royal.org	On sale now
September 23	Dublin, Ireland	The O2	Tickets: ticketmaster.ie	On sale now
September 24	Belfast, UK	Waterfront	Tickets: ticketmaster.ie	On sale now
September 26	Birmingham, UK	LG Arena	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
September 27	Leeds, UK	First Direct Arena	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
September 29	Glasgow, UK	The SSE Hydro	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
September 30	Manchester, UK	Phones 4u Arena	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
October 2	Cardiff, UK	Motorpoint Arena	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
October 4	Brighton, UK	Brighton Centre	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
October 5	Bournemouth, UK	Bournemouth International Centre	Tickets: Ticketline	On sale now
October 7 & 8	London, UK	Royal Albert Hall

Bob Dylan & his Band in Deutschland - Juli 2014

Bob Dylan gilt ohne Zweifel als wichtigster einzelner Interpret der Rock-Ära, als Inkarnation einer Gegenkultur und Songschreiber des Jahrhunderts. Seine unzähligen Hits sprechen für sich, die auch immer wieder von den anderen Großen des Rock gecovert werden und somit von noch mehr Fans weltweit gehört werden.

01.07.2014 München, Tollwood Sommer Festival, Musik-Arena03.07.2014 Zwickau, Stadthalle07.07.2014 Rostock, Stadthalle08.07.2014 Flensburg, Flens-Arena
Hier ein Ankündigungsbericht aus der Flensburger Zeitung:
Bob Dylan kommt nach Flensburg

Albert Lee´s Birthday Concerts, Cadogan Hall, London, 1st/2nd March 2014 - Reviews and Comments

NEW:
My pictures of the first and second evening can be found on flickr:
For the first evening click on the following picture:

 

Pictures of the first Albert Lee´s 70th Celebration Concert
Pictures of the second Albert Lee 70th Birthday Celebrations 

I did not wright a review of these two great shows.

Introduction by a member of Palmbridge Productions.Guest musicians included (in no particular order):
Joe Brown, Chas & Dave, guitarist Pat Donaldson, Gary US Bonds, Gary Brooker, Marty Wilde, Roxanne (Roxy) Wilde, Kim Wilde, Chris Farlowe, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett (Shadows drummer), Andy Fairweather Low and the Low Riders (Andy, Dave Bronze, Paul Beavis, Nick Pentelow), Shakin’Stevens & Background singers ("The Shakettes" = Sarah Geary and Kirstie Roberts), Ralph McTell, Dave Edmunds,  Robert Wells Jazz Trio (featuring Lars Risberg/bass, Roine Johansson/drums), Graham Chambers, Doña Oxford, Steely Dan guitarist Elliot Randall, Mark Griffiths (worked with Neil Innes, The Rutles etc), Albert's US Band (John 'J.T.' Thomas, bassist Will McGregor and drummer Jason Harrison Smith), Mike Berry & Outlaws-drummer, Composer and saxophonist John Altman (worked with Monty Python), Everly's bass Player Phil Cranham, fiddle player Jane Clark, Wayne Lee, Alex Lee, Gerry Hogan and Brian Hodgson (Hogan's Heroes), ex-Stones bassist and Rhythm Kings founder Bill Wyman, along with Terry Taylor, Graham Broad and Beverley Skeete.
.. and many more  ... 

Hosts:
01.03.2014 Bob Harris (BBC "Whispering Bob")02.03.2014 Mike Read (Total Star Radio)
Comments / Reviews / Photos:

• Here is a first review by the Independent (referring to the Saturday Gig): Albert Lee's 70th Birthday Concert, review

• Excellent video from Saturday by our friends from Stetson Ravenshead, they say "A few brief snatches of the Saturday concert".
• Rehearsal footage from Albert Lee's birthday show!! 

• Shakin Stevens: "Albert Lee played on my first album with CBS, and also toured with me in the early years - so it was great to be there for Albert's Anniversary last weekend, and to perform with so many talented musicians.
  Alongside Albert, I also shared the stage with Andy Fairweather Low and The Low Riders.Andy's and my paths have crossed through the years, and to perform with him is a memorable experience.
  I hope our paths cross, often."

• Lisa Davies:
  As Eric Clapton has famously said, Albert Lee is the world's greatest guitarist. Well, with that there is no doubt and I can also confirm he is the most humble, modest, kind and sweetest man you could ever wish to meet. It's been the greatest privilege and pleasure working with him and his lovely family for his London birthday celebration concerts at the weekend, not forgetting the rest of the team too!


• Jim Cowan:
  "Night one of the UK version of Albert's 70th birthday celebration couldn't be better." [shortened]


• John Edwards:
  Sunday gig: "The best gig that I have ever had the priviledge to see."
  John has set up a fantastic photo album on FB, click here to watch.

Previews / Announcements:  
Albert Lee Reveals Plans for 70th Birthday Gigs
Anti-Music: Albert Lee Plans All-Star 70th Birthday Concerts
Classic Rock: Big Names Gather for Albert Lee's 70th Birthday
Your source today:
Cadogan Hall hosts Albert Lee's 70th Birthday Celebrations This March 
Steve Mann Blog: Albert Lee 70th Birthday Concerts in London 
The Telegraph: Albert Lee celebrating a world-beater
PlanetRock.Com: Bill Wyman To Join Albert Lee Birthday Celebrations 

 Corrected setlists by gudrunfromberlin, I had no time to do it on my own:
Saturday 1st March

I'm ready - Albert's U.S. Band Putting on the style  - Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders Something you got  -  Doña Oxford Murder in the first degree -  Gary U.S. Bonds Dreams to remember  -  Gary U.S. Bonds New Orleans  -  Gary U.S. Bonds It's my own business - Shakin' Stevens One way out - Shakin' Stevens Apache - Shadows Wonderful land - Shadows Milk Cow Blues - Marty Wilde The price of love - Marty Wilde, Roxanne Wilde Cannonball Rag - Elliott Randall, Rick Westwood, Butch Baker, Pat Donaldson Goofin' Around  - Elliott Randall, Rick Westwood, Butch Baker, Pat Donaldson Mind your own business - Elliott Randall, Rick Westwood, Butch Baker, Pat Donaldson Tribute to Buddy Holly - Mike Berry High School Confidential - Mike Berry,  Doña Oxford Take your time - Mike Berry, with Gerry Hogan and Brian Hodgson of Hogan's Heroes Old Black Joe - Gary Brooker, backed by Albert Lee, Andy F.L. and The Low Riders A whiter shade of pale - Gary Brooker, backed by Andy F.L. and The Low Riders The Ballad of  John Hurt - Joe Brown, Low Riders Darling Corrie - Joe Brown, Low Riders
INTERVAL
Happy Birthday by Mozart - Robert Wells Trio Drive me crazy - Robert Wells Trio Bumblebee Boogie - Robert Wells Trio Nut Rocker - Robert Wells Trio
I don't think about you - Ralph McTell, Jane Clark  Somewhere down the road - Ralph McTell, Jane Clark
Jitterbug Boogie - Bill Wyman, Terry Taylor, Bev.Skeete, Graham Broad, Albert Lee, Wayne Lee Race with the Devil - Bill Wyman, Terry Taylor, Beverley Skeete, Graham Broad, Albert Lee Crying in the Rain - Terry Taylor, Beverley Skeete, Albert Lee
Spellbound - Albert & US Band No one can make my sunshine smile -  Albert & US Band Leave my woman alone -  Albert & US Band Highwayman -  Albert & US Band Mean woman blues -  Albert & US Band, Wayne Lee Country Boy -  Albert & US Band, Jane Clark Tear it up -  Albert & US Band, Gary Brooker

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Sunday 2nd March 2014

I'm ready - Albert's U.S. Band
Putting on the style  - Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders
From Small Things Big Things One Day Come  - Dave Edmunds
Something you got  -  Doña Oxford
Murder in the first degree -  Gary U.S. Bonds, Beverley Skeete
Dreams to remember  -  Gary U.S. Bonds, Beverley Skeete
New Orleans  -  Gary U.S. Bonds, Beverley Skeete
It's my own business - Shakin' Stevens
One way out - Shakin' Stevens
Stormy Monday Blues - Chris Farlowe, backed by Andy F.L. & Low Riders
Watch your step - Chris Farlowe, backed by Andy F.L. & Low Riders
Apache - Shadows
Wonderful land - Shadows
Milk Cow Blues - Marty Wilde
The price of love - Marty Wilde, Roxanne Wilde, Kim Wilde
The Ballad of  John Hurt - Joe Brown, Low Riders
Darling Corrie - Joe Brown, Low Riders

INTERVAL

Happy Birthday by Mozart - Robert Wells Trio
Drive me crazy - Robert Wells Trio
Bumblebee Boogie - Robert Wells Trio
Nut Rocker - Robert Wells Trio
I don't think about you - Ralph McTell, Jane Clark
Somewhere down the road - Ralph McTell, Jane Clark
Rabbitt - Chas & Dave
Breathless - Chas & Dave
There ain't no pleasing you - Chas & Dave
Jitterbug Boogie - Bill Wyman, Terry Taylor, Bev. Skeete, Graham Broad, Albert Lee, Wayne Lee
Race with the Devil - Bill Wyman, Terry Taylor, Beverley Skeete, Graham Broad, Albert Lee
Crying in the Rain - Terry Taylor, Beverley Skeete, Albert Lee
Spellbound -  Albert & US Band, Gerry Hogan
No one can make my sunshine smile -  Albert & US Band
Leave my woman alone -  Albert & US Band
Highwayman - Albert & US Band
Tear Stained Letter - Albert & US Band
When will I be loved - Albert Lee, Alex Lee
Mean woman blues -  Albert & US Band, Wayne Lee
Country Boy -  Albert & US Band, Jane Clark
A better place -  Albert & US Band

New CD: Georgie Fame & Madeline Bell – Singer

Singer, the new album written by Georgie Fame and Steve Gray, and performed by Madeline Bell, tells the life story of a female vocalist. The live concert performance, recorded in Tilburg, Holland in 2004 will be available for the first time from the 7th April.
In Georgie’s own words:
“In the autumn of 1984 composer and arranger Steve Gray and myself were involved in a concert for Dutch radio with the renowned Metropole Orchestra, with whom we had both worked individually in the past. Another member of that production was the well known Dutch entertainer Edwin Rutten. The three of us went to supper after the concert and Edwin suggested that Steve and I might compose an original work which could be performed with the Metropole Orchestra. We were flattered and a little excited by the prospect but nothing further was discussed.In January 1985 I was on one of my regular tours of Australia when Steve called me in Sydney to say that he’d heard from Holland and the project was on!. Furthermore, the proposed recording dates were March 3rd/4th and 5th. I wasn’t due back in England until mid-February but Steve said he would make a start with some ideas until I returned. We lived not that far from each other and I went over to his place as soon as I got back from Australia. Steve had prepared a handful of melodies and it was decided that the work should be about a female singer’s life story – in a nut shell. We both agreed that the subject of the story should be played/sung by one of our great friends and favourite artists, Madeline Bell. I was to be the narrator and we had barely three weeks to complete the project.

Available to pre-order from:Propermusic.com | Amazon.co.uk
iTunes (coming soon

Proper Records

More links:

Georgie Fame Biography (English)Georgie Fame on Concerto, an Austrian website (German)

The Georgie Fame Discography
Robert Ryan: 'When I met Georgie Fame'  
The Guardian: Why the evergreen Georgie Fame is peerless

More stuff about Georgie:

The INDEPENDENT:
Pop music: Fame at the Flamingo: golden years in Soho 

Georgie Fame and his band were regular performers at a nightclub that was a catalyst for British music in the early Sixties. He looks back at the scene of his best years in London with James Maycock.

The early Sixties: political scandals, mods, defecting spies, the Pill, and TV shows such as Ready, Steady, Go. The class system was crumbling, sexual morals were changing and American clothes, comics and music, especially black music, were in demand. And Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames were performing regularly at The Flamingo, Wardour Street, between 1962 and 1965.

This bawdy Soho nightclub played a small but important part in the intrigue and excitement that generated the atmosphere of the first half of the Sixties. Fame recalls that "there were only a handful of hip young white people that used to go to The Flamingo. When I first went there as a punter I was scared. Once I started to play there, it was no problem."

The club closed at 6am, enabling musicians like Alexis Korner to play there after performing elsewhere. Christine Keeler finished working in Bond Street at 3am and often dashed over to Wardour Street for the next three hours. Fame remembers that half the clientele were West Indian while "the other half were black American GIs mixed up with a few gangsters and pimps and prostitutes". The West Indian "Lucky" Gordon, and Johnny Edgecombe were, according to him, "both involved with Christine Keeler down The Flamingo". "Lucky" Gordon's brother, "Psycho" Gordon, occasionally joined Georgie Fame's group on stage.

As well as being captivated by jazz and such blues musicians as Willie Mabon, Fame was one of the first white artists to be intrigued by ska, sniffed at by the British music press. He heard it in Jamaican cafes in and around Ladbroke Grove, and his trumpeter, Eddie Thornton, was Jamaican.

His group also performed at The Roaring Twenties, a nightclub off Carnaby Street run by Count Suckle, an influential Jamaican DJ. Fame says: "Suckle had a fantastic record collection. He used to get direct imports from Memphis and the Caribbean ... all the old bluebeat stuff was being played in the clubs where we played."

Fame made firm friends with many black American soldiers who visited the Flamingo. They would play him the latest jazz and blues releases from America, three of which affected him so powerfully that they inspired him to move from the piano to the Hammond organ. Hearing "Midnight Special" by Jimmy Smith, "Grooving With Jug" by Gene Ammons and Richard "Groove" Holmes and "Green Onions", the seminal single by Booker T and the MGs within two days convinced him he had to change.

Fame describes the Flamingo as "a great breeding ground". The lauded British jazz musician Tubby Hayes and the Johnny Birch Quartet, which included Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, who later launched Cream with Eric Clapton, often performed at the club. Members of Duke Ellington's orchestra and Count Basie's group, when touring England, were also drawn to it. Fame remembers one face in the crowd: "Cassius Clay, as he was then, came down when he first fought Henry Cooper. Cassius would come into town and say, `Where do the brothers hang out?' He'd be told they all go down The Flamingo."

During these years, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames completed a forbidding but exhilarating schedule. As well as performing at Klook's Kleek, Ricky Tick's and The Scene during the week, they would often appear in two non- adjacent counties on Saturday night. "We'd be coming in from playing an American air force base somewhere in Suffolk and we'd throw the gear back in the wagon and drive back to London and get back to the all-nighter in time for our set. We did the one o'clock and the 4.30am set. The guys would open the way through the crowd for us and help us carry the shit on to the stage." A stabbing at the Flamingo prompted the American air force authorities to ban servicemen from the nightclub, which would soon throng with mods.

"Yeh Yeh" was originally recorded by the Latin percussionist Mongo Santamaria, but the jazz singer Jon Hendricks added the lyrics and performed his version at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1963. Fame bought the album of this concert and the song was soon added to his repertoire. His own recording of it reached the top of the British charts in January 1965, displacing "I Feel Fine" by The Beatles. His success led to less frequent performances at the Flamingo, which today he confesses was "my greatest time in London".

In 1966, Rik Gunnell, the owner of club and manager of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, persuaded Fame to dissolve his group and concentrate on a solo career, "Mitch" Mitchell, the drummer in the Blue Flames, was hired to join Jimi Hendrix's group the day that Georgie Fame and Blue Flames disbanded. Fame was not overjoyed at some of the material he was expected to record as a solo artist, but it did give him the opportunity to tour with Count Basie, an experience he describes as "terrific".

Today, Fame, who was christened with the name of Clive Powell, exudes a boyish charm and commands respect from his musical peers. For the past 10 years he has worked intimately with Van Morrison's projects as well as performing his eclectic style of music with his own group, which now includes his two sons, Tristan and James. He has recently recorded with Bill Wyman and regularly plays with big jazz orchestras in England and on the Continent.

His passion for the power of the blues, jazz, ska and Sixties soul music remains undimmed: "When I do gigs in England I have a lot of young people coming up and asking me to take the back off the Hammond organ to look inside it because they can't believe it makes that noise. They've all been raised on that digital nonsense."

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Flamingo Jazz Club, Soho
The Flamingo club opened it's doors in 1952 in Wardour St., originally called "Jazz at the Mapleton". The Flamingo operated out of a dingy basement until the first half of the 1960s, has become legendary amongst cultural buffs of the city and was recently featured in the BBC2 documentary Soul Britannia, which looked at the history of Soul music in the UK. The club is also referred to in Albert Lee's biography in connection with Chris Farlowe. The Flamingo was THE place to go in 1966 along with the Marquee just down the road and The Ship opposite.

Heaven and Hell in Soho - situated next door but one to the 2is. Another legendary 50s coffee bar in London.








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