How The Wreck breaks new ground in LGBT horror

The Rolling Stones backstage at Ipswich Gaumont, 1964Image source, Dave Kindred/East Anglian Daily TimesBy Andrew Woodge rBBC EastOctober 9, 2022

"Keith Richards, even then, looked like the rock star and his teeth were rotten," music journalist Hugh Fielder recalled during his first assignment, when he was 16.

The Cambridge high school student got Friday afternoon off to see the Rolling Stones in Ipswich on October 9 1964 - provided he wrote an essay about it.

"It was extremely exciting. It was the era of the bundled shows and although I wrote that the Stones were clearly the headliners, it was my first experience of seeing an American soul band - Inez and Charlie Foxx - and you could see 'where the Stones got some of their sound from," Fielder said.

While at their 60th anniversary shows this year, where the Stones played for about two hours, their 1964 set lasted "about 40 minutes".

Rolling Stones at Ipswich Gaumont, 1964Source of image, Dave Kindred/East Anglian Daily Times

Fielder, now 74, later served as editor of the music weekly Sounds - l 'one of the big three along with New Musical Express and Melody Maker, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the 1960s and 1970s. < /p>

He writes currently for magazines including Classic Rock.

In 1964, the Stones released their self-titled debut album and had their

How The Wreck breaks new ground in LGBT horror
The Rolling Stones backstage at Ipswich Gaumont, 1964Image source, Dave Kindred/East Anglian Daily TimesBy Andrew Woodge rBBC EastOctober 9, 2022

"Keith Richards, even then, looked like the rock star and his teeth were rotten," music journalist Hugh Fielder recalled during his first assignment, when he was 16.

The Cambridge high school student got Friday afternoon off to see the Rolling Stones in Ipswich on October 9 1964 - provided he wrote an essay about it.

"It was extremely exciting. It was the era of the bundled shows and although I wrote that the Stones were clearly the headliners, it was my first experience of seeing an American soul band - Inez and Charlie Foxx - and you could see 'where the Stones got some of their sound from," Fielder said.

While at their 60th anniversary shows this year, where the Stones played for about two hours, their 1964 set lasted "about 40 minutes".

Rolling Stones at Ipswich Gaumont, 1964Source of image, Dave Kindred/East Anglian Daily Times

Fielder, now 74, later served as editor of the music weekly Sounds - l 'one of the big three along with New Musical Express and Melody Maker, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the 1960s and 1970s. < /p>

He writes currently for magazines including Classic Rock.

In 1964, the Stones released their self-titled debut album and had their

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