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Post by pledm on Apr 4, 2008 10:30:18 GMT -5
Rolling Stones, YouTube team up for music channel 25 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones and the YouTube video Web site have teamed up to launch a new entertainment channel. According to a statement from the band and record label Universal, fans can upload questions to the Stones about "Shine a Light," a new documentary about the veteran rockers directed by Martin Scorsese, as well as "any other burning questions." "By visiting www.youtube.com/livinglegends, viewers will be able to upload footage of themselves asking their questions to Mick Jagger and/or Keith Richards," the statement said. "The best questions will be personally answered, with the subsequent footage of the Rolling Stones available to watch exclusively on this new YouTube channel in a few weeks' time." YouTube is featuring a short video clip of Jagger and Richards to promote the channel on the main page of its site in the United States and across much of Europe and Asia. YouTube is launching a music channel called YouTube Living Legends which invites top pop acts from around the world to communicate with fans via the popular site. The announcement on Friday comes shortly after MySpace, the world's biggest social networking site, said it had created an online music venture with three major record companies in a challenge to Apple Inc's iTunes Music Store. |
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Post by Summer on Apr 8, 2008 15:13:40 GMT -5
Wow, that is so cool! I wish that the remaining members of Led Zeppelin would do this as well, but I really doubt that they ever would.  |
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Post by quest on Jul 25, 2008 8:26:54 GMT -5
Well I clicked on the link and YouTube must have taken the channel down by now. I Just did a Stones special on Ustream.TV last night and while I was reseaching the show prep, I came across all the information about Shine a Light. Later that night I was at the Hard Rock and picked up a copy of the soundtrack for the film and it's amazing. The audio quality is near perfect so if that's any indication of the film I'd like to see it. One of these days I'll join the 21st century and get a flat screen with hi-def and blu ray and watch this in all it's glory I suppose. I've been listening to a lot of bootleg MP-3s lately and I think I can now tell the difference between a first generation recording on CD and otherwise. The true test of course is to listen to it through headphones. It's hard for me to truly listen to music on the computer though with all the distractions, the best place is in the car or riding the bus. I need to set aside a study room some day with nothing but books and music, no computer-like in the old days. Anyway I highly recommend this show. I've read reviews about the film and some say it's about 80 all Mick Jagger and not much footage of the rest of the band. I'm wondering if any of you have seen the film and found this to be true. I'll be watching it from a different perspective since listening to it first then watching. It's usually the other way around. I would have liked to seen it on the huge IMAX screen along with the recent U2 concert movie but circumstances didn't warrant that. I've never seen the Stones live either but I've always been a big fan. Anyway that DVD will be on my shopping list right after the new Judas Priest Nostradamus project. In the meantime I have to keep gas in the tank and that's becoming increasingly challenging so I'll stick to the Mp3s.
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Post by pledm on Jul 25, 2008 11:32:44 GMT -5
Hi quest,
Ya it seems the youtube/stones is off right now what a shame,a friend went to the Shine a light IMAX show and was blown away,Martin Scorsese did a great job,I hear he had as many as 16 different cameras for it.You get to see all the nitty/gritty stuff wrinkles and all plus vintage stuff many of us haven`t seen.Reminds me of what Scorsese did for the Dylan doc `No direction home`,he put some vintage stuff that I was dying to see.
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Post by pledm on Jul 25, 2008 11:38:18 GMT -5
oh one more since were talking Stones;
Jagger rolling back the years as hits pension age
LONDON (Reuters) - From Saturday, Mick Jagger will be entitled to a basic state pension of just under 91 pounds ($180) a week.
But he will have to wait another five years for free roof insulation -- that benefit is only available to Britons aged over 70.
The lead singer of British rock band The Rolling Stones turns 65 on Saturday, making him an old age pensioner, albeit in name only.
Jagger continues to turn back the clock with age-defying live performances, recently impressing cinema audiences with his energetic strutting and pouting captured by director Martin Scorsese in 2008 rock documentary "Shine a Light."
Although his off-stage antics no longer match the rock'n'roll excess of fellow Stone Ronnie Wood, recently admitted to rehab for a drinking problem, Jagger is clearly not about to rest on his laurels and tend to the garden.
He is increasingly involved in film production, acting as executive producer on "Shine a Light" and backing two other feature films since then. Rumors of a new Rolling Stones album and world tour also regularly surface in the news pages.
Should Jagger's estimated 225 million pound ($450 million) fortune, plus pension, prove insufficient, another tour would be a sure way of helping make ends meet.
The Rolling Stones' "A Bigger Bang" tour became the most successful of all time, grossing $558,255,524 from 2005 to 2007, according to Stones tour producer Michael Cohl. Michael Philip Jagger was born in Dartford, in the south of England, on July 26, 1943, the son of a school teacher and a hairdresser.
He became lead singer of the Rolling Stones, formed in the early 1960s, and went on to perform a string of classic hits from "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" to "Ruby Tuesday" to "Angie."
The band is estimated to have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide and regularly features at or near the top of lists of the most influential acts in pop music history.
Jagger has had a string of high-profile relationships, including with Marianne Faithfull and Carla Bruni, now married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
He was married twice, to Nicaraguan beauty Bianca Perez Macias in 1971 and Texan fashion model Jerry Hall in 1990. They divorced in 1999. He has seven children and is a grandfather.
The rock lothario was knighted at Buckingham Palace in 2003, when he rejected suggestions he had sold out to the British establishment against which he had railed for so long.
"I don't really think the establishment as we know it exists any more," he said at the time.
Jagger is likely to face renewed questions about his future and that of his band now that he has reached retirement age, but he should be used to it.
More than 45 years ago he was asked how long he could keep going with the Rolling Stones, and in a separate interview, his questioner said: "Can you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you're doing now?"
"Yeah, easily. Yeh," he replied.
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Post by pledm on Jul 25, 2008 11:50:53 GMT -5
One more latest news;  Universal Music signs Rolling Stones deal LONDON (Reuters) - Vivendi's Universal Music has signed an exclusive, long-term worldwide recording agreement with The Rolling Stones, in a deal that will be a blow to the band's previous record company EMI. EMI was taken over by private equity company Terra Firma in 2007 and has since struggled to keep hold of some of its biggest acts. It will also be a blow to concert promoter Live Nation who had also tried to sign the group, according to media reports. Universal, the world's biggest music company, said the new deal covered future albums by the Rolling Stones and their catalogue including such albums as "Sticky Fingers" and "Black and Blue" and songs "Brown Sugar" and "Angie." The British group is a hugely successful touring act, estimated to have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. "Universal are forward thinking, creative and hands-on music people," the band said in a statement. "We really look forward to working with them." In March, Universal Music released the soundtrack album from "Shine A Light," director Martin Scorsese's film of the Rolling Stones' 2006 performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York. It will now release all new recordings by the group through its Polydor label and handle full digital and physical rights as part of the agreement. "Universal Music Group will begin planning an unprecedented, long-term campaign to reposition the Rolling Stones' entire catalogue for the digital age," the company said. EMI, which had been home to the veteran rock band for many years, had recently talked about trying to squeeze new revenue from its catalogue of artists. |
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