Songs of the rolling stones

Can you name anyone in this day and age who is as cool as Johnny Cash? No, you can’t. He’s the genuine article, the real deal, and he was a badass long before most of today’s young whelps were born. Cash is feeling mighty good these days, what with an instant classic of an album, American Recordings, produced by Rick Rubin and recorded in both Cash’s own cabin in Hendersonville, Tenn., and Rubin’s Hollywood living room. There is also a renewed, almost frenzied interest in the man. Hipsters, actors and models clog his shows in the vain hope that some of the Cash mystique will rub off on them. Cash takes all this attention with his usual calm as he chats from his hotel room at Los Angeles’ Four Seasons Hotel, where he’s registered under his own damn name. “What name would I be under?” he booms. “I mean, who cares?” I just can’t picture you staying in swanky hotels like the Four Seasons.Well, where would I stay? I … [Read more...] about Johnny Cash: The Rolling Stone Interview

Abbey Road is not only among the Beatles’ most critically beloved albums —ranking 14th on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time — it’s also one of their most lucrative. Despite being written as the band was on the verge of breaking up, the album was a commercial stronghold, spending 11 weeks at Number One on the Billboard 200 at after its release in September 1969. And now, fifty years after its release, Abbey Road still sells. The album comes in at Number Three on this week’s Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart, which tracks music consumption via independent analytics company Alpha Data, thanks to a 40-track “super deluxe” reissue released by Apple Corps Ltd/Capitol/UMe to celebrate the album’s anniversary. The album moved over 81,300 total units the week of September 27th to October 3rd. Unsurprisingly, sales accounted for the majority of the album’s units, with 61,100 album sales in its first week … [Read more...] about 50 Years Later, ‘Abbey Road’ Is Number Three On The Rolling Stone 200 Chart

Britney Spears extends a honeyed thigh across the length of the sofa, keeping one foot on the floor as she does so. Her blond-streaked hair is piled high,exposing two little diamond earrings on each ear lobe; her face is fully made-up, down to carefully applied lip liner. The BABY PHAT logo of Spears’ pink T-shirt is distended by her ample chest,and her silky white shorts — with dark blue piping — cling snugly to her hips. She cocks her head and smiles receptively. But hold on. It’s not like that. You’re falling into the same trap as the lovelorn youths who call Spears’ local florist to send her long-stemmed roses and the randy fellows outside the MTV studios with prom invites scrawled on their chests. Admittedly, that trap is carefully baited by a debut video that shows the seventeen-year-old singer cavorting around like the naughtiest of schoolgirls. But, as Spears points out, nothing is actually revealed. “All I did was tie up my … [Read more...] about Britney Spears, Teen Queen: Rolling Stone’s 1999 Cover Story

This article appeared in the October 31, 2002 issue of Rolling Stone. Do you mind if I put on my pajamas?” Britney Spears asks, heading toward the bedroom of her suite at Manhattan’s Trump Plaza. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon, and her plans for the remainder of the day are limited to an evening workout and, if she’s not too pooped, a trip to the movies with her personal assistant, Felicia. These days, Britney is a woman of leisure. This summer, after her world tour ended with an aborted show in Mexico City, she revealed that she would take the next several months off. “I need Britney time,” she says, unaware of how impossibly cute she sounds. Britney is obviously a girl’s girl — warm, goofy, sentimental and yearning to be liked. Although the twenty-year-old hopes to land another movie role before the year is through, she’ll spend most of her vacation catching up with her girlfriends (“We all recently broke up with … [Read more...] about Britney Spears Pleases Herself: Rolling Stone’s 2002 Cover Story

Paul McCartney has penned seven or eight new songs for an upcoming animated feature he’s producing titled High in the Clouds, based on the children’s book McCartney co-authored in 2005. News of McCartney’s new music comes in a Deadline story about a troubled production company called RGH Entertainment that’s been tasked with creating a “sizzle reel” for High in the Clouds, which will also feature McCartney providing the voice for one of the film’s characters. According to Deadline, one of the songs featured in High in the Clouds is a collaboration between McCartney and Lady Gaga. In February, Gaga hinted that she was working in the studio with McCartney on an unspecified project, Billboard reported. “Had a beautiful session with Sir Paul McCartney and friends. Working on one of his many secret projects! Killer musicians, vibe, and lots of laughs,” Gaga wrote on Instagram. “Always a good time with my buddy. … [Read more...] about Paul McCartney Pens ‘Seven or Eight’ New Songs for Animated Film