Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones released their landmark album Some Girls.
For me, the album is indelibly associated with the death of a beloved teacher named Paul-Philippe Bolduc, who taught me French during my high school years at Trinity School on New York’s Upper West Side.
I’ve written about that moment in my life over at ahistoryofnewyork.com.
Click here for the Wikipedia entry on the album. And here for the anniversary material available at RollingStones.com.
And now, for a message from one of my other obsessions ... The biggest news out of the UK today, as far as I'm concerned, was not prime minister David Cameron's reading of Chapter 30 of Moby-Dick for the "Moby-Dick Big Read" project. Nuh-uh: it was the announcement by...
I've been listening to the newly released remastered version of Some Girls and enjoying the 12 bonus tracks that accompany it. I'll be writing about those tracks here in the months to come with the idea of producing a Kindle-based companion volume to my book on the...
Bryan Waterman and I celebrated the release of our books for Continuum's 33 1/3 series last night with a joint reading at the McNally Jackson Books in Nolita. We talked about the ways in which we conceive of my book, The Rolling Stones' Some Girls, and his,...
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