James Jagger landed a sweet role in the new HBO untitled “Rock n Roll Project” – it helps when your father Mick is one of the producers. Actually the New York born James, 29, has been modeling and acting for the last 8 or 9 years so he’s not without experience. The 6’1” Jagger (his mother is Jerry Hall) was photographed on the NY set and it looks like his character is stealing a guitar.
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HBO’s upcoming rock n roll series (no title yet) is already looking REALLY good. Martin Scorcese and Mick Jagger are producing and it all takes place in swinging 1970’s New York. Bobby Cannavale plays a record executive searching for the next new sound in the glam rock/disco/punk era. Olivia Wilde (above) looks gorgeous as his model wife. Other cast members include Ray Romano, Andrew Dice Clay and Jack Quaid. (Meg Ryan’s son.)
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Bobby Cannavale is one of our favorite actors, and he has a starring role in Martin Scorsese’s untitled rock n roll series for HBO that we told you about. It takes place in the 70’s and we are struck by how authentically attired Bobby is. From the fluffy hair with sideburns to the tight shirt and wide leg pants – he’s got the look. That orangey leather jacket is a color truly from the era. Best of all, he has the dark tan that people used sun reflectors to achieve in those days. He really looks like a guy from Brooklyn in 1972.
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We can’t say we’re really surprised that Poison singer Bret Michaels’ girlfriend of eighteen years, Kristi Gibson, has called the engagement. She’s put up with his rockstar ego and all his health crises through the years and they have two daughters together. He proposed on his reality show in 2010, and it looks like he never bothered to follow through after the show was cancelled. Personally, we would have a hard time living with that headscarf and fake hair and those ever present two fingers….
We’re betting that Kesha is being a bit more careful about her photographs since those unfortunate pics of her in a two piece swimsuit circulated last summer. The 24 year old Tik Tok singer likes to construct her eccentric rock n roll image with lots of glitter and face and body paint. In fact, Kesha says she has body painting parties at her Nashville home. And she brags “My makeup is usually left over from the night before.”Glamour magazine talked her into cleaning up for an uncharacteristically feminine photo and it’s quite a makeunder.
Peter Frampton did an interview on NPR in which he talked about finding his favorite long-lost guitar. Frampton acquired the Les Paul guitar in 1970 and always used it onstage. In 1980 the band equipment (not the band) was on a plane that crashed in South America. All seemed lost, but somehow the guitar survived and ended up in the Caribbean. Recently, a guitar collector spotted it and contacted Frampton who was thrilled to get it back. The story’s nice, but we can’t get over how much Peter Frampton has CHANGED! Yikes!
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Since she’s not dating a rock star, Ashlee Simpson doesn’t want to look like a rock chick. Nowadays she’s spending a lot of time in New York and the people she’s hanging out with are not so much into the music scene. Ashlee got at least five tattoos when she was married to musician Pete Wentz and now she’s having them lasered OFF
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Johnny Depp might be looking for YOU! According to The Sun, he’s starting his own record label called Unison Music and has a team scouting for talent – checking out up and coming bands in London’s dingy dives. It makes sense – Johnny has always been an aspiring rock musician – he was in a band when he got his first acting job and still plays music every chance he gets. He’s played guitar with Oasis on more than one recording and he collaborates with his pal Shane MacGowan of The Pogues.
It seems like a lot of rockstar types die young, and if they don’t their drugging, chainsmoking, and partying catches up to them. Rock chick Anita Pallenberg was a gorgeous model/actress in the swinging sixties – she dated at least two Rolling Stones and toured the world with the band. (That’s her in the top photo with Mick and Keith in 1968) She dated Brian Jones for two years and afterward hooked up with Keith Richards for twelve years. They had three kids together. Anita’s 65 now (she was photographed outside a supermarket, looking cranky) and we think she might have aged better if she’d taken care of herself, but she DID have an extraordinary amount of fun!
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John Lennon’s green card, which he was thrilled to get, despite his anti-Vietnam war sentiments. Personal Lennon items loaned by Yoko Ono are currently on display at the New York Annex of the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.