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| From | Anna Borg <anna@tallboyrecords.com> |
| Subject | Re: Stonesmania hits Vancouver |
| Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:54:32 -0700 (PDT) |
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Man...can I feel like MORE of a spaz!?? I'm getting
my panties in a twist about seeing one of the worst
movie musicals EVER, and the delightful Mizz Beeman
gets to see a true RAWK artifact.
Oh well...I want a cool rider, what can I say.
Anna
--- beeman <beeman@istar.ca> wrote:
snip...
Well, next weds
> the guest is ANDREW
> LOOG OLDHAM and the indie film is CHARLIE IS MY
> DARLING the rare Stones
> documentary. Yow & Gah. It's not to late to jump on
> a train, guys. See
> you there.
>
> I went online to find more info about the
> documentary and found Oldham
> mentioned twice in the following writing by our pal
> Gary Pig Gold (who
> truly must think I'm stalking him <grin>)
>
> Wonder why never released?
>
> regards, Judith
>
>
> TEN REASONS WHY THE ROLLING STONES WERE THE WORLD'S
> GREATEST ROCK AND
> ROLL BAND
>
> 2. ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM
> Take equal parts Col. Parker and Phil Spector, mix
> with a liberal
> helping of Laurence Harvey (cf: "Expresso Bongo"),
> garnish with a dash
> of Anthony Burgess, and you have the wonderlad who
> transformed himself
> from failed pop crooner Sandy Beach to frustrated
> Brian Epstein gofer to
> chart-topping svengali of the world-famous
> anti-Beatles .....all within
> a mere eighteen months. Needless to say The Rolling
> Stones, not to
> mention Malcolm McLaren, would not - in fact, could
> not have ever risen
> to successfully battle the rock wars without the
> skilled example of
> Andrew Loog.
>
> 7. "CHARLIE IS MY DARLING"
> Forget "A Hard Day's Night," "Eat The Document" and
> even "Gimme
> Shelter": for a true docu-style glimpse of those
> once-swinging Sixties,
> "Charlie Is My Darling," produced, of course, by
> Andrew Oldham, boldly
> treads where no Arriflex had been before (ie: into
> an Irish hotel
> ballroom circa 3 A.M., where them shit-faced Glimmer
> Twits butcher
> "Return To Sender" whilst sliding tumblers full of
> champagne back and
> forth across a grand piano top). Also watch the band
> being savagely
> attacked on stage, and hear Brian describe what
> "surrealism" means to
> him. Hmmm... I wonder why this has still never been
> screened in America?
>
>
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