Merry Clayton

The Sundance Film Festival is poised to see its first acquisition, with Weinstein Co.'s VOD label Radius hammering out final details on a deal to buy the backup-singer documentary "Twenty Feet From Stardom," according to a person familiar with the...

A series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers & contributors are listening to right now... Various artists, “Our Lives Are Shaped by What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973.” The accepted narrative of Motown Records’...

Here's the isolated lead vocal harmony track of of Mick Jagger and Merry Clayton from the Rolling Stone's 1969 recording of "Gimme Shelter." VIDEO REMOVED FROM YouTube BASED ON COPYRIGHT CLAIMS BY MTV ---- and then all the tracks were......

There was a moment at the start of the Rolling Stones' "Bridges to Babylon" concert on Sunday at Dodger Stadium so startling that you could almost hear a collective gasp from the mostly over-45 crowd. Even if you had seen photos of the band recently or...

For any rock fan who has learned to love "American Idol," the theme of Tuesday night’s first showing for the Top 12 -- the music of the Rolling Stones -- was fraught with tension. Imagine if you’d had two high school boyfriends, one the student body...