Magazine of the Week #29

This week its the July 1978 issue of CREEM, with the cover story "Ron Wood Achieves Puberty! Glimmer Twins Held Responsible" by BARBARA CHARONE.


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We get some news about the forthcoming ROLLING STONES LP: "Tentatively titled "Some Girls", the new album marks a return to the glory days of "Exile On Main Street"". Six years, and they're longing for the "glory days". Huh.
From a list of 200 possible album titles, they briefly considered "Don't Steal My Girlfriend" and "More Fast Numbers"".

Woody says "When I was with Rod, it was always Rod, Rod, Rod! But no one can say its all Mick with the Stones."

In "Rock 'n' Roll News" we get this nice tidbit: "BACKSTAGE PASSES: At Lou Reed's recent show at the Roxy in L.A., Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood snuck into Lou's dressing room and de-tuned all of his guitars (before showtime). Lou was not in an amiable mood, though, and promptly ejected Heckle and Jeckle from the backstage premises." We also learn that ""retired" ex-Beatle" JOHN LENNON "has been supposedly grabbed for the title role in William A. Levey's "The Street Messiah", a pic about a rock star who gets religion".


Also, "Mick Taylor insisted he will be touring shortly, no matter what CBS says about it".

In "Lou Reed: No More Heroes, But Plenty Of Respect", Lou is asked about BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's uncredited vocal cameo on "Street Hassle": "He was in the studio below and for that little passage I'd written, I thought he'd be just perfect. 'Cause I tend to screw those things up.......I'm too much of a smartass. And I knew Bruce would do it seriously, 'cause he really is of the street, y'know?"



Then there's "Bob Marley Battles De Blood Clot, Mon", a nice story on THE CLASH, and a spread on the big "California Jam" with pics of STEVEN TYLER, DAVE MASON, STEVIE NICKS, BOB WELCH & MICK FLEETWOOD, ANN WILSON, and TED NUGENT.



In the "Confessions of a Film Fox" column, it says "While Bianca Jagger basks in the spotlight of "The Ringer" (shooting on location in Munich), talk has it that her sometimes (sigh) estranged spouse Mick is wanted by French director Roger Vadim to star in his next picture." Hey, if Vadim wants Mick, he'd better get him before Mick starts making that "Kalki" film! (see here, here, and here).

Record reviews include "The Last Waltz", TELEVISION's "Adventure", WINGS' "London Town" ("hardly the worst Wings project"), ELVIS COSTELLO's "This Year's Model", MARLEY's "Kaya", and more. TV reviews include "Second City Television" and "Quark".