Manchester rock band The Stone Roses are to headline next year's Isle Of Wight Festival.
But one of the most anticipated guests is someone who might or might not show up, which is kind of how it's always been for the '70s funk rock icon Sly Stone.
There are various inlets where visitors can rent a rowing boat or hire an oarsman to take them to the mysterious rock known as Zhumbaktas stone.
He is often given credit for introducing rock music to operating rooms in the Northeast as a way to soothe the medical team and the patients, an innovation that earned him the nickname Rock Doc from Rolling Stone.
It really is like a puzzle, based on the shape of the rock and any carving on the stone.
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What at first glance appears to be a jumble of boulders was probably a workshop where expert stonecutters practiced their trade. (One chunk of granite has been carved into almost-finished steps.) Another large stone, known as Serpent Rock, has snakes etched into its top surface.
More than 40 years ago, in primordial 1957, Arthur Rock was a young investment banker at Hayden Stone in New York City.
The courtyard has pebbles and stones surrounded by grass, with an understated cascading fountain made from Balinese volcanic rock that collects rainwater and seeps into the stone.
The Stone Forest, a set of towering rock formations, truly looked like a work of art.
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The man himself often lived up to his bleak dream-world: lean, intense, racked by stomach complaints, and with a special fondness for the rugged limestone island of Faro, off Sweden's east coast, where he built a low stone house on an empty sweep of rock.
Philadelphia's The Asteroid No. 4 takes dreamy shoegazer pop and mixes in elements of '60s psychedelia and latter-day space rock to create a folk-rock sound that falls somewhere between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.
The interior of this Reno home continues the stone theme with slab floors and an enormous, multi-level rock fireplace.
In the courtyard, the stone St Patrick's cross replicates the worn original in the Rock of Cashel's 15th-century Hall of the Vicars Choral, which was built to house the cathedral's male choristers.
The Stone Roses, whose 1989 eponymous debut has been widely regarded as one of the best rock albums ever, returned after a long hiatus for a string of gigs last summer.
To spice things up, rock stars and actors, as they became activists, chose the Davos platform: Bono, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Brad and Angelina would have the wealthiest and most powerful corporate titans freeze in their tracks.
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