nme.com Pair have done ‘a couple of tracks’ together The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards has revealed that he has been working with Jack White. Richards was tight-lipped about the hook-up, but told Rolling Stone magazine that the two guitarists have collaborated. However, he was cagey on the subject on whether he might enlist White to produce for his band. “I enjoy working with Jack,” he said. “We’ve done a couple of tracks.” On the possibility of White producing for The…

jam.canoe.ca LONDON – Forty years after the body of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was found floating in his swimming pool, British police said Monday they are reviewing new evidence about his death turned over by an investigative journalist. Though Jones’ 1969 drowning was ruled an accident linked to a drug and alcohol binge, friends and fans have long insisted the rock star was murdered, and reports have swirled of a death bed confession by a building contractor. Sussex police…

billboard.com Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday (Aug. 15). He was 67. His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson recently had bypass surgery and was undergoing rehabilitation at Methodist University Hospital, his wife said. Jim Dickinson, perhaps best known as…

uncut.co A painting of the Rolling Stone’s Ronnie Wood, depicting him as a vampire, is being auctioned for charity from today (July 14). The portrait of the star, by his wife Jo Wood’s brother and artist, Paul Karslake, was commisoned TV channel FX to help launch the new series of hit US drama True Blood. Kerslake has previously painted another Stone, creating the iconic image of Keith Richards as a pirate, that was used 12 years later inspiring the Jack…

mirror.co.ukA vintage guitar which once belonged to Rolling Stone Mick Taylor is expected to fetch £100,000. “Little Mick”, guitarist with the band from 1969 to 1974, sold the 1959 Gibson Les Paul standard guitar to music guru John Scates in 1969. Jamie South, for auctioneers Gardiner Houlgate, believes the rare instrument will exceed £100,000. He said: “A guitar like this is of priceless value to enthusiasts of 70s music.” The guitar will be auctioned at a Central London hotel this…

wenn.com Rolling Stones star Keith Richards was forbidden to speak to celebrated British journalist Barney Hoskyns about his friendship with Tom Waits – by the gravel-voiced singer himself. Hoskyns was researching Waits for his new book Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits when he approached rocker Richards and was delighted when the Stone agreed to be interviewed. The writer reveals, “Tom and his wife asked Keith not to speak to me… I just don’t think they want…