The Stones Looking Much Like 'Dead Flowers'
Before the Rolling Stones bounced back they were withering from drug abuse, as the accompanying 1971 live performance video of "(Send Me) Dead Flowers" shows in the extreme. Mick Taylor is in the line-up at the Marquee Club in London
By David Farrell
With the Zip Code Tour in full swing and the re-release of Sticky Fingers this week, the Rolling Stones have released this vintage 1971 performance video from the Marquee Club in London with Mick and Keith looking like skeletons, Mick Taylor standing as stiff as a monument on lead guitar and Bill Wyman looking his part. They are performing "Dead Flowers" - the loping country blues number on the album that includes the nostalgic line, "I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon..."
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Ed Sheeran Topples Drake's 8-Week Chart Supremacy
Ed Sheeran’s = debuts at No.
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Ed Sheeran’s = debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album and digital song sales, and on-demand streams for the week and ending Drake’s eight consecutive weeks run at the top of the chart. It is Sheeran’s fourth consecutive album to debut at No. 1.
The remainder of the top five falls one position from last week’s chart, with Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, Lil Nas X’s Montero, Doja Cat’s Planet Her and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love sitting at Nos. 2 through 5.
Francophone rapper Enima debuts at No.15 with Resilience, his highest-charted album to date. His previous top peak was #35 with his 2018 release OPN.
Mastodon’s Hushed and Grim debuts at No. 18, the American metal band’s first release since Emperor Of Sand reached No. 4 in March 2017.
The War On Drugs’ I Don’t Live Here Anymore debuts at No. 33, their first release since A Deeper Understanding peaked at No. 8 in 2017.
Thanks to consumption activity around Halloween for the title cut, Michael Jackson’s Thriller bullets 90-26, the album’s highest chart position in the SoundScan era.
– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch