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From Warsaw 1967 to Eazy Sleazy in 2021, April 13 traces a fascinating Rolling Stones timeline of reinvention, excess, and legacy. It captures everything: the Faces’ bittersweet Ooh La La farewell, the Stones’ decadent Sucking in the Seventies era, landmark tours, and historic collaborations. Along the way, figures like Bill Wyman and Johnnie Johnson shape the story, while moments like São Paulo 1998 or Richards with Clapton in 2013 prove the band’s enduring, unpredictable spark never truly fades.
April 13, 1973: Release of Ooh La La,The Faces‘ last studio album. By 1973 Ooh La La found the Faces straining yet still swinging. Rod Stewart’s rising stardom stirred tensions, though he sounded far from disengaged. While not as seamless as Long Player or A Nod Is as Good as a Wink, highlights shine. Ronnie Lane ultimately anchors a bittersweet, fitting farewell to the band.
SIDE A: 1. Silicone Grown/ 2. Cindy Incidentally/ 3. Flags And Banners/ 4. My Fault/ 5. Borstal Boys SIDE B: 1. Fly In The Ointment/ 2. If I’m On The Late Side/ 3. Glad And Sorry/ 4. Just Another Honky/ 5. Ooh La La
April 13, 1981: Release of Sucking in the Seventies, the Stones’ fourth official compilation (Rolling Stones Records COC 16028) Sucking in the Seventies finds the Stones flaunting late-’70s excess with sly self-awareness. While Mick Jagger steers through disco, reggae, and gloss, brilliance clashes with missteps. Missing hits aside, the compilation captures their decadent drift better than most albums, revealing both their sleaze and enduring bite in one uneven yet telling snapshot.
April 13, 1987: Bill Wyman hosts a press conference in London, England, unveiling AIMS—a project aimed at recording emerging, unknown British bands nationwide using the Rolling Stones’ Mobile Recording Studio.
April 13, 1998: Estádio do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil Satisfaction/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Flip The Switch/Gimme Shelter/ Sister Morphine/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Saint Of Me/Out Of Control/Miss You/ Like A Rolling Stone*/Band introduction/Thief In The Night/Wanna Hold You/ Little Queenie/Under My Thumb/You Got Me Rocking/Sympathy For The Devil/Tumbling Dice/Honky Tonk Women/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/ You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Brown Sugar *With special guest Bob Dylan
April 13, 2005: Death of pianist Johnnie Johnson. The inspiration for Johnny B. Goode and the greatest blues pianist of his time. Johnnie is nowhere near renowned as he should be. He was a prodigy since age 4, an apprentice to Muddy Waters and the piano giant on whose shoulders Chuck Berry rose to prominence. On a fateful day in early 1956, Johnnie Johnson and Chuck Berry headed to Chicago for their fourth recording session at Chess Records. Their first three efforts had produced the blues-inflected stylings of Wee Wee Hours, No Money Down and Downbound Trainand the cut-time country raveups Maybellene, You Can’t Catch Me and Thirty Days.
April 13, 2006: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia Satisfaction/Let’s Spend The Night Together/She’s So Cold/Oh No, Not You Again/Sway/Worried About You/Ain’t Too Proud To Beg/Tumbling Dice/Night Time/Band introduction/This Place Is Empty/Happy/Miss You/Rough Justice/Get Off Of My Cloud/ Honky Tonk Women/Sympathy For The Devil/Paint It Black/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Brown Sugar
April 13, 2013: Keith Richards joins Eric Clapton onstage during Key to the Highway at the Crossroads Guitar Festival held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. An effortless collision of legends, where loose blues chemistry, mutual respect, and decades of history unfold in a moment that feels both spontaneous and quietly monumental.
April 13, 2021: Mick debuts his new song Eazy Sleazy (with Dave Grohl) via a promo video
Mick: “So I thought the Stones are a band who very much work in a room, you now, together in a room. And that was impossible so I thought to do this song this is going to have to be someone that’s going to be working remotely and I said I bet Dave’s in L.A. in his house (laughs) and I bet his studio’s in his house, which of course it is. So it was very easy. And I said ‘What do you think? Would you like to do something?’ And he said ‘Send me a song’. He said, ‘OK, I’m going in tomorrow, love it’… But this is just a one-off for now. It’s just a fun thing.”
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