Paper Monitor
11:22 UK time, Friday, 19 October 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The strains of classic rock practically blare from the pages of this morning's papers.
For whatever reason, appearances by certain popular music legends proliferate.
There is extensive coverage of the premiere of Crossfire Hurricane, a documentary film about the Rolling Stones.
The band themselves are widely pictured standing outside the screening in London's West End. Mick, Keef (still sporting, as writer David Quantick once told the Magazine, "a face like a prune's wallet"), Charlie and Ron, their appearance as disreputable as it was in their heyday, if somewhat greyer.
Reviews of the film itself are mixed. Kate Muir of The Times praises its portrayal of the "terror and adrenalin" of the band's early fame, but laments the absence of muses Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg.
Michael Hann of the Guardian enjoys the documentary but Crossfire Hurricane is, he says, "like one of those Stones albums of the last three decades: it's fun, it has terrific moments, but in the end it pales in comparison with earlier triumphs".
"As a visual record, Crossfire Hurricane is a real treasure trove," in the Independent. "As history, it's on the skimpy side."
For the Daily Mail, the most important aspect of the premiere is not so much the production itself as the appearance of former Stones bass player Bill Wyman alongside his former band mates (the online version of the paper focuses on the fact that ).
The same paper devotes to discussing a paparazzi shot of the legendary David Bowie going for a walk in New York.
Bowie has, according to the Mail, "apparently not written a song since 2003". He is "reclusive", "consumed by a fear of flying" and turns down all offers of work.
So, too, would Paper Monitor, if Paper Monitor were a 65-year-old multi-millionaire with a secure place in received wisdom as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
A description of his daily routine is perhaps intended to make him sound even more of an eccentric:
Bowie spends his time painting, drawing and reading, and other than when he's walking his 11-year-old daughter, Alexandria, to her nearby school, emerges only infrequently.
Again, to Paper Monitor, this sounds quite a pleasant existence.
The Daily Mirror takes a similar approach to the Mail, asking "can this REALLY be pop's legendary Starman?"
Paper Monitor hope's Bowie pays no notice - David.
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