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Brian Jones letter urging Charlie Watts to join Rolling Stones up for auction

A letter written by Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones in 1962 imploring drummer Charlie Watts to join the band could fetch $80,000 at auction in New York.

BANG Premier · 11h ago

Brian Jones’s letter asking Charlie Watts to join Rolling Stones to be auctioned

The previously unseen letter offers an insight into the origins of the chart-topping group more than six decades later.

Evening Standard · Oct 28

‘Dear Charlie...’ Letter Brian Jones wrote to future Rolling Stones drummer up for auction

In a handwritten letter sent to ‘Mr C Watts’ on 3 June 1962, Stones co-founder Jones complained to Charlie Watts, then playing in a rival band, of their ‘atrocious’ drummer and urged him to join their fledgling rock group

The Independent UK · Oct 28

“Mitch has finally got the intro and then… crash! It's Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones. He stumbles in, and he's out of his mind!”: Inside the chaotic sessions that produced Jimi Hendrix's classic rendition of All Along the Watchtower

Recorded in London and New York, Hendrix's version of the Bob Dylan track would become the Experience's best-selling single – but it took many takes to get there

Guitar World · Jul 18

Inside Winnie-the-Pooh author A.A. Milne's former home... now available to rent for £10,000-a-month

The 16th century Sussex House is where Milne wrote all the Winnie-the-Pooh books, inspired by the surrounding landscapes

Evening Standard · Jul 9

The Rolling Stones release song with Robert Smith and video with Anya Taylor-Joy

Both songs feature an appearance from former Spencer Davis Group and Traffic musician Steve Winwood on keys.

Evening Standard · Jun 25

“What a weird song. Weird chord sequences, weird everything. I have no recall of what was going on in my head. For that to be your most streamed song… kind of weird, don’t you think?”: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones’ deathless classic

“I wish we could do something like that now”

MusicRadar · Jun 16

Keith Richards created the most iconic riff in rock in his sleep – and other key moments from the new Rolling Stones biography

IN FOCUS: A new book about the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band traces their extraordinary history, from the notorious Altamont concert to the Rock and Roll Circus, meeting Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg, and the Redlands raid. Roisin O’Connor chooses just some of the key moments

The Independent UK · May 28

California veteran known for pro-Trump display outside his home dies after assault

Authorities have said they are still investigating motive of alleged attack on Kerry Sheron, 69, by Thomas Butler

The Guardian - US · May 27

The Balloonists review – divas and disasters in tale of first round-the-world hot-air balloon flight

Polite documentary about Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, who faced off much wealthier rivals Richard Branson and Steve Fossett in the race to circumnavigate the globe

The Guardian - UK · May 20