Tourist visa and permanent residence incompatible: court
New York Daily News Oct 24, 08 8:29 AM CDT
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Bianca Jagger must give up her rent-controlled Manhattan apartment of 20 years. The state's highest court ruled that she doesn't meet the "primary residence" clause because she has an American tourist visa. Mick’s ex-wife says the eviction was revenge for her 2003 lawsuit against the landlord, which claimed she got sick from toxic mold contamination, the New York Daily News reports.
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London museum buys rock-n-roll brand art
Associated Press Sep 2, 08 11:21 AM CDT
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Mick Jagger's pout is officially fit for a museum. London's Victoria and Albert Museum announced today it bought the original artwork for the Rolling Stones' famous lips logo, inspired by the singer's mouth, for $92,500. The lips-and-tongue logo was designed by London art student John Pasche in 1970, and first used on the band's "Sticky Fingers" album the next year.
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Jagger girls have more confidence than to date womanizers
Daily Mail (UK) Jun 17, 08 10:16 AM CDT
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Mick Jagger’s ex stomached his philandering for 20 years but Jerry Hall insists their daughters—Elizabeth, 21, and Georgia May, 15—will never date a wild womanizer like their Rolling Stones dad, the Daily Mail reports. “No, never. But I don't think they would. They have far more confidence than I did, and they have great boundaries.”
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She hopes buyer 'has better luck with it than I did'
Daily Mail (UK) Jun 9, 08 8:10 PM CDT
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In the market for some rock 'n' roll history, in lace? Jerry Hall is auctioning off the dress she wore when she married Mick Jagger 18 years ago, along with 60 other designer outfits. "It feels very cathartic," she said.
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Appreciation
No moment of silence possible for rock's 'Originator'
Washington Post Jun 3, 08 12:21 PM CDT
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You can’t have a moment of silence for Bo Diddley, J. Freedom du Lac writes in the W ashington Post . It’s not that the music world hasn’t lost a great pioneer—it surely has. It’s that the mere mention of Diddley’s name sets your feet tapping to the “Bo Diddley beat,” the most imitated rhythm line in rock and roll: Bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp. Bomp-bomp.
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Lennon, Marley, Berry rock on
Blender May 25, 08 11:43 AM CDT
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"Towering natural abilities" and "exceptional creative powers" infuse the most memorable music of generations, forged by Blender's top 50 pop-music geniuses. The top 10: Bob Dylan: Each of his brave self-reinventions is "an authentic American original." John Lennon: "His drive pushed the Beatles from a covers band to the world’s best-loved and most influential pop act." Chuck Berry: His guitar riffs are still the "bedrock" of rock and roll five decades on. Bob Marley: "No one did more to define and popularize a musical genre." Mick Jagger and Keith Richards: Duo created "decade of classics."
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Jagger's 'excruciating campness' gets a dig in wide-ranging GQ sit-down
GQ Mar 28, 08 2:07 PM CDT
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Rolling Stones mummy Keith Richards is still kicking, and GQ got him talking about—what else?—sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in his Manhattan "office" while he downed a vodka on the rocks. Richards doesn't debunk any myths, certainly. "It wasn't just boinky-boinky" with the groupies, he said. "They used to rub Vicks on your chest if you had a cold."
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Mills-McCartney low on list
Daily Mirror (UK) Mar 18, 08 8:26 PM CDT
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The $46.8 million settlement Paul McCartney has to shell out to divorce Heather Mills only ranks seventh on the Mirror's list of celebrity divorces: Michael and Juanita Jordan, 2007, $168 million: She filed for divorce once before, in 2002. Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphey, 1994, $150 million: He amicably said she was "worth every penny." Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving, 1989, $100 million: She walked away with half his fortune; he walked with an Indiana Jones star.
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Bikers out for revenge when rocker dumps deadly gang: BBC
Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 2, 08 11:16 AM CST
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The notorious Hells Angels motorcycle gang once plotted to kill Mick Jagger, according to a BBC documentary to air tomorrow. Gang members sought revenge after Jagger decided never again to use them as security when a fan was beaten to death by bikers during the Stones' infamous 1969 Altamont concert. "The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger's treatment of them that they decided to kill him," the documentary claims.
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Don't do as we did, Jagger, Richards
urge Winehouse
Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 18, 08 8:27 AM CST
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Stick with the sex and rock 'n' roll, but skip the drugs, say the Rolling Stones to the next generation of musicians. In particular, the 64-year-old front men warn pal Amy Winehouse that she can't always get what she wants. "She should get her act together," says Keith Richards, and Sir Mick Jagger is "worried she might die," reports the Daily Telegraph .
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Disgruntled voters look for newlywed prez
to get back to work
Times (UK) Feb 4, 08 10:10 AM CST
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The French breathed a collective sigh of relief after Nicolas Sarkozy's weekend wedding, hoping it allows the lovestruck president to move beyond the whirlwind romance that made his work suffer and his approval ratings plummet. But as Sarkozy goes back to work, the possible extent of his damage control remains to be seen, reports the Times of London.
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Buffy the Sarko-slayer indeed, Daily Mail writer finds
Daily Mail (UK) Jan 25, 08 10:02 AM CST
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Carla Bruni may have the press corps covering her fiancé—French President Nicolas Sarkozy—atwitter, but it can’t be said that the model keeps cards too close to her chest, reports the Daily Mail' s Simon Mills, whom Bruni recently greeted with these fittingly plain words: “Sorry for being topless.” The effect on the following interview, Mills writes, was “pure conversational Viagra.”
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Wealthy, intelligent beauty not so different from Sarko's ex
New York Times Jan 13, 08 8:22 AM CST
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Former supermodel Carla Bruni may be catching some flack from critics who think she's distracting Nicolas Sarkozy from leading France, but those who would dismiss her as just a model don't have the whole story, writes the New York Times . The award-winning singer is intelligent, cultured—and strikingly similar to the last Mme. Sarkozy.
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‘Sea Shepherd’ enforces own marine rules, ignores others
New Yorker Oct 30, 07 4:12 PM CDT
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Paul Watson is far too radical for Greenpeace, the group he co-founded. His vigilante group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a roving pack of eco-saboteurs, trolling international waters for whalers—and ramming the offending ships. Watson usually operates illegally, and his theatrical and violent defense of aquatic life is credited with turning Icelandic opinion against saving whales, the New Yorker reports.
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