Keith Richards recalls making December’s Children and Aftermath in roughly 10 days, while taking on work Brian Jones normally handled. Pressure, apparently, was the production method.
In 1968 Keith Richards says the Rolling Stones are more subversive onstage than ‘Street Fighting Man’. Mick Jagger, naturally, has a few more things to say.
This Rolling Stones’ alternate ‘Mercy Mercy’ take from Chess Studios captures a looser, rawer side of the young band—before anyone bothered pretending they had everything figured out.
Los Rolling Stones toman «Love in Vain» de Robert Johnson y la transforman para Let It Bleed, incorporando toques de country, mandolina y una buena dosis de daño emocional.
Who was ‘Angie’? Keith Richards has an explanation, but decades of rumors, mysterious details, and one haunting recording keep the question alive.
September 24 spans British clubs, a crucial 1965 album release, Paris, Washington and Columbus—another remarkably busy date in Rolling Stones history.
In 1972, amidst the wild lifestyle of the Rolling Stones at the Playboy Mansion, Charlie Watts remained calm and composed, preferring pool games to chaos, embodying a unique restraint in rock music.
Ronnie Wood’s first Rolling Stones tour brings giant stages, Mick Jagger flying over crowds and an Arkansas arrest. The 1975 American circus is anything but routine.
An early 1972 take of ‘Tops’ reveals the Rolling Stones before the song resurfaces on Tattoo You—and Mick Taylor’s guitar makes the vault history considerably more interesting.
La canción ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, escrita por Chuck Berry en 1956, simboliza el cambio musical, defendiendo el rock and roll frente a la música clásica. Los Rolling Stones grabaron su versión en 1963.
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