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The Rolling Stones: Play With Fire

Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2002

Forty years ago, THE ROLLING STONES were the defining voice of teenage rebellion, rock 'n' roll outlaws, the anti-Beatles. With their digitally re-mastered 1960s albums about to be released, we look back at the group's impact on a decade that, for better or worse, they came to define.

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