Rolling Stones ticket prices. John Lennon and Elton John footage. The Who's "Live In Texas '75".  Paul Stanley slams back at Steven Tyler. Being selfish makes us happy. Emoticons in texts. Chore equality and divorce. Books that impress girls. 3 signs the guy you met online is a big, fat liar.

ROLLING STONES

The Rolling Stones are already feeling the heat for their exorbitant ticket prices, with a single top-priced ticket for one of their two Newark, New Jersey shows in December running over $800. Keith Richards talked about the cost for promoters and ultimately fans, explaining to the BBC, "I haven't looked at the figures. Numbers can get greatly exaggerated but ($25.8 million) sounds about right to us. I'm a bit out of the loop with showbiz -- I just want to do some shows and I don't want to charge over the bloody top."

Richards went on to explain that additional Stones shows in 2013 seems like a no-brainier: "Nobody has given us a heads up, but this band isn't going to wind up with four shows. Next year looks like it's on."

He remained non-committal when asked about the Stones headlining England's 2013 Glastonbury festival next June, saying, "On a good day, if the weather's fine, that's an interesting proposition. The band wants to get these four gigs under their belt, then think about next year after that. Anything is possible with this band."

Meanwhile, it seems that the Stones' two London shows will disappoint more fans than they'll thrill. Vintage Vinyl News reported that online ticket exchange Viagogo claimed: "With only 15,000 seats thought to be available per night at the London O2 Arena, that means at least a million disappointed fans. The O2 would need to put on 73 of those performances to meet this demand."

JOHN LENNON/ELTON JOHN

The recently discovered footage of John Lennon joining Elton John onstage in 1974 at Madison Square Garden, will become part of Elton's Million Dollar Piano show in Las Vegas. Elton posted on his website (EltonJohn.com) that the carefully restored fan shot footage will play during his and lyricist Bernie Taupin's 1982 tribute to the late Beatle, "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)." In addition to the Super 8 film of the pair onstage, the tribute at Caesar's Palace will include never before seen photos of Lennon and Elton.

Lennon's appearance with Elton on November 28th, 1974 was due to a bet made with Elton earlier that summer when Elton supplied the piano and harmony vocal on Lennon's "Whatever Gets You Through The Night." Elton made Lennon promise that if the song hit Number One he would join Elton onstage to perform it. Lennon, who had yet to have a U.S. solo chart-topper, never believed the song would hit the top spot, and agreed. When the song hit Number One, plans were made for Lennon to make a guest appearance at Elton's New York City show.

Lennon joined Elton for performances of "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night," Elton's then-current single, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "I Saw Her Standing There," and went on to shake a tambourine during the evening's encore of "The Bitch Is Back."

THE WHO

Out now is the Who's latest vault DVD, called Live In Texas '75. The show was videotaped during the Who's November 20th, 1975 concert at the Summit in Houston during the band's tour behind that year's The Who By Numbers album. The footage was shown on the Summit's in-house video system and features one of the band's classic forgotten songs -- the Pete Townshend-sung "However Much I Booze" -- a tune that the band only performed 11 times during the '75 dates before being permanently dropped from the band's repertoire.

Roger Daltrey, who's successfully pushed for the band to include rarities like "Tattoo" and "Slip Kid" in the band's setlists, admits that there's a fine line between rediscovering a lost classic and knowing when to let a track live only on record: "We are trying to do obscure stuff. But there is sometimes a good reason why those numbers are obscure -- they're just not quite as good as the other ones (laughs)! It doesn't mean that the songs aren't as good, I'm wrong there. What it means is that some songs exist much better in the studio, and when you try and put them on the stage they become a clumsy thing. Other songs just get on the stage and they just take a life."

Rarely has any song been more confessional than "However Much I Booze" -- or any of the others Townshend wrote from The Who By Numbers album. Townshend said that he always felt that his work was one of a singular artist who adapted his material to fit the Who's structure: "Well, obviously, every writer, every individual that creates has to draw on their own experiences and when I set out to write songs -- I shoot from the hip. I don't actually write for any particular voice."

PAUL STANLEY

Paul Stanley is slamming back after Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler labeled Kiss "a comic-book" band, and that he's offended by any criticism comparing the two bands, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. On Monday night (October 15th), Stanley, who was promoting Kiss' 20th album, the newly released Monster, lashed back at Tyler, telling Rockline, "Maybe Steven's feeling a bit full of himself because he has an album coming out . . . When (the Aerosmith) album comes out, let's put (it next to ours and) and let the music do the talking."

Stanley went on to talk about the bands' 2003 tour, which featured Kiss and Aerosmith as co-headliners: "Steven insisted that they close the show. I really (didn't) care because one way or the other you have to come up onstage. (He) was looking down his nose a bit at Kiss. Seeing him come onstage to an underwhelmed audience and (seeing) people walking out (made me smile). . . Steven may have been over-enthused and needs a reality check."

Paul Stanley said that over the decades, Kiss has lived out their career in public and that come what may, the fans have always seen the very human side of Kiss throughout the years: "I've made mistakes. The band has made mistakes, but that's great. A) If you survive your mistakes, that's great, and B) if you learn from them, all the better. We've lived a very open and very public life, and anything that we've done has been on the record. We've been seen blemishes and all, and I think it's awesome."

Aerosmith release their latest album, Music From Another Dimension, on November 6th.

BEING SELFISH MAKES US HAPPY

 Researches have found that being selfish really does make us happier-- as long as we don't feel guilty. The key is to feel you have no choice but to be selfish, it's your last resort. In contrast, the study shows those who actively choose a selfish path usually feel guilty. Researchers speculate that because we're taught as children that "sharing means caring" we often feel bad prioritizing ourselves over others, and so we often forego things that will make us happy. In the study, scientists gave a group of undergraduates 3-dollars each. Some were told to donate the money to a charity, some were told to keep the money, and others were told to do what they wanted with the money. Those who were told to keep the money reported being happier than those told to donate or given free choice. (DailyMail)

WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO USE EMOTICONS IN TEXTS

A new study shows women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages. For the study, pariticpants were given a free iphone to use for six-months, and no other information. Researchers analyzed over 120-thousand text messages looking for the happy and sad smiling faces. The research teams says this is the first study of it's kind that collected real emoticon use from text messages "in the wild." (DailyMail)

CORRELATION BETWEEN CHORE-EQUALITY AND DIVORCE

Equality in marriage might not be the best way to go. A new study finds that the divorce rate for couples who share the housework is 50-percent higher than in marriages where the wife does all the chores herself. While there's no clear-cut reasoning for this, one explanation might be that women in the first group nag their husbands to do the chores. The researchers say that modern couples willing to share chores in the first place might not look at marriage as "sacred" in the way most traditional couples do. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. women already do the vast majority of housework- on average women spend 2.6 hours a day on household chores while men only spend 2.1. (YourTango)

BOOKS THAT IMPRESS GIRLS

If you want to be a hot literary nerd, all you need to do is tell the girl what you actually thought of the book. Here are books you should talk about:

1) Ulysses (James Joyce): They teach entire college courses devoted to this book. You can't beat an eye-patched author for panache!

2) Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace): Fractals! How could a girl not swoon about a book that combines philosophy, mathematics and humor?

3) Anything by Jorge Luis Borges: I'm not even sure Borges understood his books either. So, you can say whatever you want about them, it'll sound plausible.

4) Anything by Jane Austen: Not only will she think you're smart, but she'll think you're a hot sensitive hunk who understands women. Just don't compare the girl with Fanny Price.

5) Major philosophical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Rene Descartes: I'd start with No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, at least that one is fun to read (and short).

6) Major tragedies by William Shakespeare: No Tempest for you, they teach that in middle school, for goodness' sake! It's about the epic tragedies: King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, et cetera. These tragedies will allow you to be emotive, intellectual and hot all at once. (Romeo and Juliet is cheating though.) (AskMen)

3 SIGNS THE GUY YOU MET ONLINE IS A BIG, FAT LIAR:

1) He won't meet you in person. It is always important to be very safe when meeting someone in person that you have only met online. A good idea is to take a friend, bring your own vehicle and meet in a very public place. However, when a person online refuses to meet under any conditions, after you have established an online relationship, there is often a big problem. If they are upset that you are bringing a friend this should be a key indicator that they are not considering your feelings or your comfort level.

2) He needs to be on his own territory to meet. While you want to meet somewhere that you are comfortable with, you also have to be flexible as to what the other person wants. If he is absolutely unwilling to meet anywhere besides where he suggests, this will give you good insight into his personality.

3) He refuses to provide a phone number or personal information. A big red flag should be waving if they won't give you personal information once you have established that you have a connection and would like to meet in person. (YourTango)

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Jennifer Tyler

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