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...July 12, 1962, a group called The Rolling Stones debuted at the Marquee Club. Some weeks later, another former Komer employee, drummer Charlie Watts, signed on with the new band, and they added bassist Bill Wyman because he had the biggest amp in town...
...does not immunize bronze against pollution, and so to save the horses from the ravages of the fallout from the industrial center of Mestre in Venice, they have been taken down from the church. They will be put in a museum and replaced, on the basilica's fa&#amp;231;ade, by carefully copied understudies...
...four received a great deal of notoriety for smashing their instruments at the end of each performance. It was, at first, a flashy, frightening and finally exhilarating thing to see. Drummer Keith Moon blew up his drum kit, and Townshend rammed the neck of his guitar into his amp, while Daltrey slammed his microphone against the stage and Entwistle held tight to his bass, playing stubbornly on like a shipwreck's lone survivor trying to keep dry in a leaking lifeboat. There was too much discussion about how all this was rock's reflection of Pop art, happenings and autodestruction...
TONY SANCHEZ USED TO hustle drugs for the Rolling Stones. Not for Charlie Watts, of course, who only gets high on his backbeat, or Bill Wyman, who only got in the band because he had a good amp in the days when equipment was scarce--in a way, they've always been more out of the band than in it. But the Glimmer Twins, Mick and Keith, and, in the early days, Brian, always knew where to go for "a little c-o-k-e." A lot of the contraband that has kept the Stones in and out of court...
...early tip on Alger Hiss's Communist connection but, unable to substantiate it, had turned it over to the Government. And when McCarthy needed evidence to support his wild charges of Reds in Government, Anderson gave him an unsubstantiated tip about one of Truman's speechwriters; a & amp;quot;burn of shame singed through me," he says, when McCarthy denounced the man in the Senate. In time, McCarthy turned on Pearson, who had never been a big fan of the Senator's anyway. Calling Pearson an agent of Moscow, McCarthy demanded a "patriotic boycott" of Adam hats...