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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · 1d

I ate dessert 10 innings ago

Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · 12d

At the Church of the Holy Redeemer
A pew had just snapped my right femur
The pain was severe
Yet I shed not a tear
Though I got a wet nose like a lemur

Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · 12d

At the Church of the Holy Redeemer
A pew had just snapped my right femur
The pain was severe
But I shed not a tear
…though I got a wet nose like a lemur

Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · 19d

They’re not playing it live, which ordinarily would be a shame — but without Ian Stewart on piano, it wouldn’t sound nearly as great, would it? This one, Little Queenie, Let It Rock..along with everything else, the Stones played Chuck Berry songs better than anyone else did.

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Sep 8

This show was hilarious

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Sep 6

The King of Rock & Roll

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hill be so inclined

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Sep 2

I was mortified, in that pre-internet age, to have to say that I did not know the lyrics. And 40 years later, I can’t remember the title of the song, either. So that’s why it sounds like a dream — the dream when you haven’t gone to class and have an exam & are totally doomed.

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sounds like a dream, but decades ago this happened: I was working late at Rolling Stone & got a call on my direct line from someone on the road with Bruce & the E Street Band. Bruce wanted to perform some r&r classic that night, but no one could remember the words. Did I happen to know the lyrics?

Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · Dec 7

Don't often remember my dreams but on Saturday while sleeping badly in an overhot hotel room I dreamt that Billy Joel asked me to play soprano sax at his gig. Sadly, all the keys looked weird and I declined, so we went backstage instead and my mum made everyone tomato cup-a-soups.
True (dream) story

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’d be happy to take the credit, but in fairness this sounds more like a John Norris mitzvah; I was still just the MTV movie guy (who’d seen the Faces in 1973 at Nassau Coliseum.) Here’s John & I around 2000, with our producer Heather Parry.

Chris Connelly with John Norris and Heather Parry for MTV News

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Aug 19

Paul & Jimmy FTW!

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Jul 20

NY Daily News:
COURT SEZ: NO FLYING WAAAHLENDA

NY Times:
FOR INFANT, A STROLL TO NOWHERE, AS MOTHER’S JUDGMENT IS QUESTIONED BY JUDGE

NY Review of Books:
SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON A RED WHEEL BARROW. NO, SERIOUSLY

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Jun 27

Francis Veber to write and direct…!

Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Jun 26

In her memoir, Carly Simon wrote that during a transatlantic voyage, she and her sister Lucy were approached for a menage-a-trois by Sean Connery, who starred in The Hunt for Red October with Alec Baldwin, hired by NBC for a (never-produced) version of A Few Good Men, whose film starred Kevin Bacon.

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Jun 26

Cerf was related by marriage to Ginger Rogers & Rita Hayworth. Ronstadt’s brother arrested the man who killed Rebecca Schaeffer. Schaeffer’s murder inspired the film Moonlight Mile, its title taken from the Rolling Stones song, co-written by Mick Jagger, who sang with Carly Simon on You’re So Vain.

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Chris Connelly @chrisconnelly.bsky.social · Jun 17

I was in a London record store that summer of ‘79 looking strictly for punk/UK New Wave treasures when I heard Don’t Bring Me Down for the 1st time. WHO IS THIS I asked the clerk; given his accent and my rock&roll hearing, I was still sorting out his answer 10 minutes later. Such a great track.