Things Have Changed

Ry Cooder has been playing slide guitar since the mid-1960s with the Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, Taj Mahal, Randy Newman, Van Morrison, ...

Goodbye Charlie Watts; you were always so cool amid the chaos.  All Down The Line from a 2008 concert filmed by Martin Scorsese.

       So don't play with me, cause you're playing with fire This song came to mind today for the first time in probably decades.  V...

The finest song recorded by The Rolling Stones, the one I believe will endure the longest, Gimme Shelter was the first track on the album L...

Perhaps "Classical" classic rock might be a better term but, in any event, the origins and brief heyday of this pop mode are in th...

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this version of Dead Flowers by Townes Van Zandt appears in The Big Lebowski (a THC #10 all-tim...

1970s that is.  A continuation of my post on concerts I attended during the 1970s.  I'm certain I'm forgetting some from this dec...

From Keith Richards' new album, Crosseyed Heart which contains some rockin' tunes.  Just as Keith Moon used to describe himself a...

( Tony Clunn with Roman coin from thetimes.co.uk ) In a world where credentialed experts dominate many fields let's take the opportuni...

Part two of the series:   The second half of 1964 saw the breakout from the bridgehead established by The Beatles and the first wave of ...

First of a two part series: At the beginning of January 1964 the top five singles on the Billboard charts were: 1. There, I've Said ...

Reviewing the rules: Dates of single release in the U.S. are shown in (parens). Singles reaching #1 on the Billboard Charts are shown ...

Let's take a look back at that surprisingly brief period (certainly shorter than I remembered) when The Beatles and The Rolling Stones ...