Yearly Archives: 2011

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Deluxe Edition) & Some Girls Live In Texas ’78 (Soundtrack)

The Rolling Stones’ 1978 release Some Girls was the band’s big middle-finger response to the notion that they were going to be run over by the younger lions of the burgeoning punk scene – that is, if Keith Richards’ heroin habit didn’t take care of things first. Richards was in that dark place where even […]

One And Only: The Untold Story Of On The Road by Gerald Nicosia & Anne Marie Santos

She was Marylou in Jack Kerouac’s classic On The Road, the gal who drove Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) mad. He married her when she was 15; divorced her a year later; and then did what he had to do to keep her within his orbit for the rest of his life. She was either there […]

Rearview Mirror: The New York Dolls

“Hullo.” That’s all it took to identify the speaker. That “hullo” on the other end of the phone — a mix of purr and growl with a wisp of cigarette smoke curled around it — could only be New York Dolls frontman David Johansen. Thirty-eight years later, this was the same voice that came barrel-assing […]