Stones Gather to Plot 50th Bash Inside the New York rehearsals for potential 2012 gig By Patrick Doyle

HE ROLLINGSTONES are strongly consider- T ing at least one live concert later this year to mark their 50th anniver- sary, Stones insiders tell ROLLING STONE. Sources add that the band is still considering a tour in 2013. "It looks like we are going to be doing more stuff," gui- tarist Ronnie Wood said recently at a U.K. awards show. "I am keeping Octo- ber and November free - that's what I've been told." Adds Keith Richards, "We're open for anything. It all seems that things are moving forward." Disco's greatest diva - Enough)." Summer was known her 2003 memoir, Ordinary The Stones began explor- and defining voice as the "Queen of Disco," but Girl. Her grandfather was a ing possible options for their of the era - dies at 63 her music ranged much far- preacher, and Summer's par- anniversary at a brief, infor- By Rob Tannenbaum ther - through rock, New Wave, ents were strict: "God forbid we mal jam session in London R&B and gospel. "She was a did anything vulgar." Her fa- last December. Earlier this ONNA SUMMER, WHO very astute woman," says soul ther spanked her for using red month, the band members topped dance, rock and singer Chaka Khan. "I used to nail polish, which, he told her, gathered in New York for D R&B charts with some hate dance music, but I was im- only prostitutes wore. a full week of rehearsals - of the biggest hits ofthe Seven- She sang in a gospel choir, their first time playing to- ties and early Eighties, died of trained in musical theater and gether at such length since lung cancer on May 17th, 2012, "She championed traveled to Germany to appear the final night of the mar- ather home in Naples, Florida. women and in a production of Hair. While athon Bigger Bang tour at She was 63. empowered living in Munich, she mar- London's 02 arena in Au- Starting with 1975's "Love to chicks," ried Austrian actor Helmuth gust 2007. "It was fantas- Love You Baby," Summer be- says Chaka Khan. Sommer, whose surname she tic," Richards says of the came the defining voice of the adapted. Working with produc- New York rehearsals. "We disco era. She won five Gram- pressed by what she sang about, er Giorgio Moroder, Summer played everything. Charlie mys, and became a superstar how she championed women cut the erotic "Love to Love You Watts and the band were in with a string of hits including and empowered chicks." Baby," approaching the song top form. I realized it had the proto-techno classic "I Feel Summer was born LaD on- "like an actress." She imag- been five years!" Love" and four Number One naAdrian Gaines, one of seven ined herself as Marilyn Mon- After several days in New smashes: "MacArthur Park," children in a Boston working- roe, softly cooing lyrics like "Do York, the Stones continued "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls" and class family with "deep spir- it to me again and again." "My working across the Hud- "No More Tears (Enough Is itual roots," as she wrote in acting was done [Cant. on 18J son River in Weehawken,

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