Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones: 5 of Their Most Outrageous Tour Moments

Posted on 05/2/2013 by | Who's News | Comments

Bulletin Today | EntertainmentThe ancient Greeks had the Dionysian mysteries, when they would abandon propriety, dance wildly in a trance-like state and revel in various sorts of intoxicated excess. For boomers, that sounds eerily similar to Rolling Stones concerts of our youth. A 1972 Associated Press account of a Stones show at Philadelphia’s Spectrum arena – “a festival of heat, hysteria, perfume, sweat, marijuana smoke and deafening music inside” — merely grazes the surface of the hedonistic mass ritual. Related: The Stones’ 50 …

Catch Your Dreams Before They Slip Away: The Stones Turn 50

Posted on 07/12/2012 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

EntertainmentHappy 50th to one of the greatest bands that ever was. We have an AARP card sitting around here somewhere for you… Here’s a link to the playlist of the songs we’re playing today to celebrate. What should we add? Tell us in the comments. Under My Thumb… Time Is On My Side… Tumblin’ Dice… Angie… Ruby Tuesday… And the ultimate classic, I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)

The Beatles Rain-ing Supreme on Broadway

Posted on 02/22/2011 by | Movies & TV | Comments

EntertainmentI jumped to my feet at some point the other night during Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles, and for me and everyone else there, the ornate decor of Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theater melted away, and there we all were in Shea Stadium, August 1965, drowning out the airliners on their final approach into LaGuardia, screaming, singing, crying even. And as I chanted along to “Hey Jude,” waved my hands over my head to “Come Together” or clapped (with a …