Category Archives: music

murry wilson

Murry Wilson, a man of many moods who for some reason Capitol Records allowed to record one album in 1967.

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record labels

Aaliyah. Aaliyah. 2001.

cute band alert

Guns N’ Roses on the corner of Sunset and LaBrea. 1985.

jagger in fitzcarraldo

Making Fitzcarraldo circa 1981.

bianca jagger

I watched Cocksucker Blues again the other day and the most interesting part was the one with Bianca Jagger.

jagger

Backstage at the L.A. Forum. 1972.

cute couple alert

John Simon and Anne Ritchie. October 1978.

signed pepper

Just a heads up to the high rollers out there that there’s a signed copy of Pepper up on ebay dot com right now. Bidding is at $31,110 so far with more than two days left in the auction. The reserve is not yet met so things still have a chance to get interesting or absurd. The record is accompanied by these groovy photos of the fabs supposedly signing the thing. Watch this space: I’ll update when the auction goes off.

Update: the price didn’t budge since this was posted and the auction ended without the reserve being met. An anticlimax, I guess.

the stickers on records

This optimistic sticker on the sleeve of The Beach Boys’s M.I.U. Album predicted that their weak cover of “Peggy Sue”, done in a Hooray for Everything-style arrangment, would be a hit. It only managed to make it to #59 on the Billboard charts. Is #59 considered a hit for an act that was once accustomed to regular top tens?