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The cast of the current Broadway show Boop! The Musical performs on The TODAY Show. Here Betty Boop's 1930s directors anticipate the colorful future of the movies. Also a bit of light political commentary. Not to mention the adorable Pudy. ;D I saw the show last weekend. Very sweet and great visuals!

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One of my earliest childhood memories was watching these two at the bar (ah the 80s, lol). RIP George Wendt

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Just found this History of Rock - 1967 magazine at the book store. :)

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If you were watching Star Wars circa 1986, and if you failed to press STOP during the end credits, you'd be treated to a surprise promo for the VHS tapes of Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Enjoy and May the Force be with You. And check out Andor on Disney+! :)

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“Valentino, a scarred gray tabby cat who once belonged to Brian Jones, yawned and stretched on the terrace. Keith and I were sitting on a Moroccan carpet in the side yard….Anita was still upstairs in the tapestry-bedecked bedroom where she and Keith slept, on the dresser in a silver frame a small photograph of Brian.”

--Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones and their times by Stanley Booth. Photo: © Dominique Tarlé

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Bill Wyman interviewed in Oslo, Norway in 1998, discussing why he left the Rolling Stones, how the media runs with an image of rebellion, and particularly how it affected founder Brian Jones.

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"Four Popes now." :)

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"So, Brian, if you’re listening, in Heaven, way up there, I really, truly, deeply dig your lovely long blonde hair"

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Audio commentary from the 2003 biopic My Dinner with Jimi, with Turtles' lead singer Howard Kaylan and producer Harold Bronson. Here they discuss the unique touches Brian Jones brought to the Rolling Stones (over the scene where Howard meets Brian in the film). After which they ponder whether Brian's real life camera recordings could possibly still exist.

You can watch the actual Brian Jones scenes in the movie here: https://youtu.be/qmHWWMAcyk4. The full movie is available on DVD and YouTube.

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“While Mick did his business I did a little inquiring as to the health and well being of the other Stones. It appears that me old mate Brian, now happily back in the social circulation, took a great fancy to the ten-foot-high cut out of Tiny Tim at the Playboy club reception. So taken with it was Brian that he took it with him when he left and on to a party at photographer David Bailey’s next evening, where it was apparently a great success. What Brian was doing with it at four in the morning in the middle of Parliament Fields is slightly obscure, but I feel it does illustrate that he is once more enjoying life and that can only be a very good thing.”—Keith Altham, Hit Parader, June 1969

https://archive.org/details/hitparadermagazi28unse_5/page/10/mode/2up?view=theater

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"It was different a few years ago. We were a pack then, when Brian was alive, a family in a way. But sometimes now I'm not sure I even know the others."--Charlie Watts

(Found this quote in two books from the '70s: Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer by Tony Scaduto and The Best of the Music Makers by George T. Simon)

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“Brian said, ‘I haven’t been doing any drugs. I’ve been down here with these young musicians who are wonderful. We’re going to do an album, and I’d like you to produce it.’

I said, ‘Brian, I haven’t heard you sound this good since I’ve known you. When can I hear the stuff?’ He said, ‘Why don’t you give us another week? You can come down, and we’ll do a set for you.’ That was our last conversation.”--Jimmy Miller (Rolling Stones producer), Guitar magazine, 2004

(Photo: Helen Spittal)

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Charlie Watts talks about Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Ian Stewart, and Keith Moon:

"We used to listen to obviously Chuck Berry. So we'd do whatever number, Down the Road Apiece or something, and Brian would be whatever line Keith wasn't. So they worked a lot together in that way. It must have worked because, I mean, they became the band in a way. So musically, he must have been ok but personally he got very ill towards the end. And he used to have some annoying habits, Stu could kill him at times. Him and Stu were like oil and water. Which when you met either of them, you wouldn't have thought so (Laughs). But to be honest, Brian was the first guy who I heard of Bob Dylan. He knew him and all that. And also Jimi, Jimi Hendrix. But of course he would have done because he hung out in all the clubs. A bit like Moonie, Keith Moon knew everyone, he was Mr. Entertainment."--Charlie Watts, 2019

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Fun with Charlie is My Darling DVD menus. 😊

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Deleted scene from Stoned, the 2005 biopic of Rolling Stones' founder, Brian Jones. Here Brian is reading the poem "Bad Sir Brian Botany," by A.A. Milne (author of Winnie the Pooh and former owner of Brian's home, Cotchford Farm). A very appropriate choice, featuring such lines as, "You are Sir Brian -- don't laugh/You are Sir Brian -- don't cry/You are Sir Brian as bold as a lion/Sir Brian the Lion, goodbye..." I did also like Brian's wry, "Well then we'll have ourselves an Eeyore," lol. One of many scenes that really should have been included in the final film. You can watch the full scene here: https://youtu.be/fclcKvNb8pw.

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Number 6: It looks like a unanimous majority.

Number 2: Some of these good people don't seem to appreciate the value of free elections. They think it's a game.

Number 6: Everyone votes for a dictator...

From 1960s British science fiction series, The Prisoner, Episode 4, "Free For All." https://youtu.be/iDmrZHqkzM0?si=KPLkzsHrzc0evVXv

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A Swedish fan magazine from 1965, illustrating the origins of the Rolling Stones. Rough translation: Brian Jones thanks Bill Wyman for joining the group, both him and his amp. ;D