Rolling Stone ace Anthony DeCurtis was just on NPR's Soundcheck, talking to John Schaefer about meeting (two of) the Beatles, the bad moods of Van Morrison, and his new collection of (mostly) music profiles, In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work. Both interviewers had a great time agreeing about the hazards and happy accidents of interviewing, and it was quite charming. Anyway, DeCurtis kept pronouncing the name of his magazine Rollingstone, not Rolling Stone, as I'm accustomed to, and as in "How does it feel/How does it feel/To be on your own/With no direction home/Like a complete unknown/Like a rolling stooone?" Is that the house pronunciation, or what? It now connotes roll 'em, role playing, role model, rather than, you know, stoned. Then again, rolling papers. I guess the gist is still pretty much intact.

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