Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mick Waller was one of London's top sessions musicians before he joined the Jeff Beck Group, and played in particular with the Stones (he owned up to being the bongo drums in 'Jumping Jack Flash). He predicts, "the Stones will stand the test of time better than the Beatles. They're much simpler, you know, and they say a lot more than the Beatles with their highly contrived messages. Its just like Dylan, he can say in a few words what it would take Janis Ian a whole song to get at. I've only recently begun to listen...
...They were playing too complicated, too static, very difficult to get that off the ground." He turned to Waller "I really like it when you tap on the snare and do the tom-tom at the same time. Its really deep you know what I mean." Again the bewitching London accent...
Thus, in an unsworn statement, the man whom the U.S. Government claims is James Earl Ray battled last week in London against extradition to face a murder charge in Tennessee. "Some of the [Government] testimony is false," he stated in a high-pitched Southern-accented voice. Ramon George Sneyd objected in particular to a British detective's testimony that when he was arrested on June 8 he blurted: "Oh God! I feel so trapped...
...students occupying the Latin Quarter; column one had the word on the insurrection at Columbia; at the bottom of the page, on the left, was a story about 500 students in Brussels taking over the university; deep inside the first section ther was news of students rioting at th London School of Economics; section two told of the continuing "problems" with young radicals in Germany; the next day Brooklyn College was hit; and a week later 1000 students and faculty had taken over the main administration building at San Francisco State...
...neighborhood screens. Staircase, a play about two aging male lovers has been bought by 20th Century-Fox; The Killing of Sister George, a tragicomedy concerning a tweedy lesbian and her baby-doll companion, is now being filmed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights to The Boys in the Band, an off-Broadway hit in which all the characters are homosexuals. In March...