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2010 – The Rolling Stones are releasing a limited edition 7″ single featuring a previously unreleased track from the upcoming Exile On Main St. reissue. “Plundered My Soul,” the first single to be featured off the Exile reissue, will be backed on the 7″ by the remastered album track “All Down The Line.” The single will be individually numbered for avid Stones collectors.
2010 – Carlos Santana announces he will Cover Cream, Deep Purple, Van Halen, Rolling Stones On his Upcoming Covers Album on This Day in Rock!
“We’re not comparing or competing with those artists… we’re complementing them,” Santana said. “But when you hear this, you’re gonna do ‘Damn!’ because it sounds so powerful, with vitality and vibrancy. Like Wayne Shorter says, it’s completely new, totally familiar.”
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2009 – Road Chef, the Watford Gap UK Motorway services operator, paid £1,000 at an auction for a collection of celebrity signatures, which were collected by former employee, Beatrice England. The book included signatures of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, The Eagles and Dusty Springfield. The Blue Boar services as it was once known received so many famous guests in its 50-year history that Jimi Hendrix mistook it for a London nightclub as it was mentioned so often by his contemporaries.
The book includes the signatures of Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, The Eagles, Dusty Springfield and Sir Cliff Richard.
They were collected by the late Beatrice England, who worked the night shift at what was then called Blue Boar service station.
It is said the Blue Boar received so many famous guests in its 50-year history that Jimi Hendrix mistook it for a London nightclub as it was mentioned so often by his contemporaries.
The services were opened concurrently with the new motorway on 2 November 1959, and was the first of its kind in the UK.
Initially, the service area was owned and run by Blue Boar Limited, a private family company that owned the Blue Boar petrol station on a nearby roundabout on the A5 road.
British folk singer Roy Harper wrote a song criticising the food at the Watford Gap on his 1977 album, Bullinamingvase.
The lyrics were: “Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of ****”.
Later versions of the album did not feature the song as a member of the EMI board was also a member of the Watford Gap’s board of directors.
RoadChef said it intended to put the autograph book on display at the site.
2008 – A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a car boot sale sold for £4,000 at an auction. The ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones. The seller obtained the album after haggling the cost down from £3.
2007 – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards denied that he snorted the ashes of his late father during a drugs binge. Jane Rose, Richards’ manager, told MTV News the remarks were made “in jest”, and she could not believe they had been taken seriously. Richards had said in an interview with The NME: “He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.” But NME interviewer Mark Beaumont was convinced that Richards was not joking when speaking to him about the alleged incident. “He did seem to be quite honest about it. There were too many details for him to be making it up,” he later told BBC news.
2006 – The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at Twickenham Stadium on their ‘A Bigger Bang’ world tour. Feeder and The Charlatans also appeared.
2006 -Twenty people are injured when ticketless fans try to gatecrash a Rolling Stones concert in Buenos Aires. Police use rubber bullets and tear gas to control the unruly crowd.
2004 - The Rolling Stones topped a US Rich List of music’s biggest money makers. The list was based on earnings during 2003 when the band played their “Forty Licks” tour, which made them $212 million, (£124.7m) in ticket, CD, DVD and merchandise sales. The three million fans who went to the shows spent an average of $11 (£6.47) each on merchandise. Bruce Springsteen was listed in second place and The Eagles in third.
2004 – Doris Troy, best known for the 1963 Atlantic R&B/pop crossover hit “Just One Look,” dies in Las Vegas. The 67-year-old singer/songwriter had suffered from emphysema. Born Doris Payne in Harlem, N.Y., Troy did not restrict herself to R&B. Her distinctive vocals graced the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and Dusty Springfield’s “In the Middle of Nowhere,” among other classics.
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