Bolero

“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time

 is a concept that humans created.” 

The enchantment

I've read the book Up and Down with the Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez many, many times. There is this one segment of the book where Tony writes about the club he created, along with the help of the Stones, that is crafted like a Moroccan palace, and these photos are what I imagine the club to look like.I can just see The Stones chilling in this place on cushions, opium smoke filling the air...

"On July 26, 1968, Mick Jagger flew from Los Angeles to London for a birthday party thrown in his honor at a hip new Moroccan-style bar called the Vesuvio Club—“one of the best clubs London has ever seen,” remembered proprietor Tony Sanchez. Under black lights and beautiful tapestries, some of London’s trendiest models, artists, and pop singers lounged on huge cushions and took pulls from Turkish hookahs, while a decorative, helium-filled dirigible floated aimlessly about the room. As a special treat, Mick brought along an advance pressing of the Stones’ forthcoming album, Beggars Banquet, to play over the club’s speakers. Just as the crowd was “leaping around” and celebrating the record—which would soon win accolades as the best Stones album to date—Paul McCartney strolled in, and passed Sanchez a copy of the forthcoming Beatles single “Hey Jude/Revolution,” which had never before been heard by anyone outside of Abbey Road Studios. Sanchez recalled how the “slow, thundering buildup of ‘Hey Jude’ shook the club”; the crowd demanded that the seven-minute song be played again and again. Finally, the club’s disc jockey played the flip side, and everyone heard “John Lennon’s nasal voice pumping out ‘Revolution.’” “When it was over,” Sanchez 
said, “Mick looked peeved. The Beatles had upstaged him.”

-The Believer Magazine

Rock and Roll Circus

2 Days ago I watched a film called

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll circus

with a fellow music fanatic.

We were exploding with enjoyment watching it.

Since then, I've been obsessing about how

fantastic it really was.

The show takes place at the circus

and features, along with the Stones, The Who, John Lennon, Yoko,

Taj Mahal, and Jethro Tull.

Highlights include a 70 year old acrobatic couple,

Brian Jones bloated face, and the luscious

Mick Jagger strutting around

without a shirt on.

Also, Yoko does some type of "ballad"

that is beyond any explanation.

Watch this and go to the circus with the Stones...