Chris Connelly

Now I’d be up for an ABBA version of Walking in Chains

Hal Needham’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Degree of difficulty: artists not known for cover songs

Why Do Fools Fall in Love/Joni Mitchell
Breathless/Taylor Swift
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues/The Beatles
To Sir With Love/Al Green
Substitute/Sex Pistols

You’ve got a better seat than I do, Bob!

Slightly-older-than-that age is wondering, “Could I live with this the rest of my life?”

What a treasure that man is

I ate dessert 10 innings ago

At the Church of the Holy Redeemer
A pew had just snapped my right femur
The pain was severe
Yet I shed not a tear
Though I got a wet nose like a lemur

At the Church of the Holy Redeemer
A pew had just snapped my right femur
The pain was severe
But I shed not a tear
…though I got a wet nose like a lemur

They’re not playing it live, which ordinarily would be a shame — but without Ian Stewart on piano, it wouldn’t sound nearly as great, would it? This one, Little Queenie, Let It Rock..along with everything else, the Stones played Chuck Berry songs better than anyone else did.

This show was hilarious

The King of Rock & Roll

Hill be so inclined

I was mortified, in that pre-internet age, to have to say that I did not know the lyrics. And 40 years later, I can’t remember the title of the song, either. So that’s why it sounds like a dream — the dream when you haven’t gone to class and have an exam & are totally doomed.

Sounds like a dream, but decades ago this happened: I was working late at Rolling Stone & got a call on my direct line from someone on the road with Bruce & the E Street Band. Bruce wanted to perform some r&r classic that night, but no one could remember the words. Did I happen to know the lyrics?

Chris Connelly with John Norris and Heather Parry for MTV News

I’d be happy to take the credit, but in fairness this sounds more like a John Norris mitzvah; I was still just the MTV movie guy (who’d seen the Faces in 1973 at Nassau Coliseum.) Here’s John & I around 2000, with our producer Heather Parry.

Paul & Jimmy FTW!

NY Daily News:
COURT SEZ: NO FLYING WAAAHLENDA

NY Times:
FOR INFANT, A STROLL TO NOWHERE, AS MOTHER’S JUDGMENT IS QUESTIONED BY JUDGE

NY Review of Books:
SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON A RED WHEEL BARROW. NO, SERIOUSLY

Francis Veber to write and direct…!

In her memoir, Carly Simon wrote that during a transatlantic voyage, she and her sister Lucy were approached for a menage-a-trois by Sean Connery, who starred in The Hunt for Red October with Alec Baldwin, hired by NBC for a (never-produced) version of A Few Good Men, whose film starred Kevin Bacon.

Cerf was related by marriage to Ginger Rogers & Rita Hayworth. Ronstadt’s brother arrested the man who killed Rebecca Schaeffer. Schaeffer’s murder inspired the film Moonlight Mile, its title taken from the Rolling Stones song, co-written by Mick Jagger, who sang with Carly Simon on You’re So Vain.

I was in a London record store that summer of ‘79 looking strictly for punk/UK New Wave treasures when I heard Don’t Bring Me Down for the 1st time. WHO IS THIS I asked the clerk; given his accent and my rock&roll hearing, I was still sorting out his answer 10 minutes later. Such a great track.

THERE’S NO DISCHARGE IN THE WAR on long lines at the snack bar

Good paired entry with his “I may vomit” opener

I think “small” vacation is the tiny imperfection there to remind you a human, not a god, made this.

There is only
one Willis Reed.

Letting basic rules of grammar go down the drain. And anytime you’re yanking out a bathtub, it’s bad news for Floring.

Herman might have also taken a comma or two from that first sentence.

Thelma seems to have gotten a marriage license in 1925 and may have had a 1945 fender-bender

Going for the lede