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The Rolling Stones: This Is A Stone Age!!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME Summer Special, 1966
THE ROLLING STONES are a five-man revolution in the pop world. When they first appeared on the disc scene in 1962 they proceeded to defy ...
Ronnie Wood: New Stone Tries a Solo
Report and Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, July 1979
WHEN TP FIRST interviewed Ron Wood, back in the fall of 1974, the Faces' guitarist and ex-Beckite was more than happy to answer questions about ...
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St.
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Observer, The, June 2004
STICKY FINGERS has always been taken for granted. Fans and critics alike have drooled for decades over Let It Bleed and Exile on Main St., ...
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Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages Audio, July 1973
Ol' Rubber Lips on the reception afforded to Exile, the making of latest album Goat's Head Soup, what current music is or isn't turning him on, and the Stones' place in the scheme of things
File format: mp3 File size: 29.5mb Interview length: 32 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: **
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, Winter 1985
Starting with the Live Aid Dylan "fiasco", this interview moves swiftly through subjects such as guitar playing and Jeff Beck's Stones "audition", before degenerating into a row about production methods. Things get back on keel with talk of Exile and Keef's Desert Island Discs. Sound quality is, shall we say, funky.
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 66mb, total interview length: 1h 12' 03" sound quality: **
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1989
From being a fresh-faced Bluesbreaker to the Rolling Stones and beyond: guitars, the blues, Altamont, the glamour and the dark side.
File format: mp3; file size: 61.5mb, interview length: 1h 07' 16" sound quality: * (phoner)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1997
The Human Riff on Exile on Main Street, Gram Parsons, rastamen in the hills and his loathing of Oasis
File format: mp3 File size: 27.7mb Interview length: 30 minutes 13 seconds Sound quality: ****
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
The Rollin' Stones: Genuine R&B!
Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, May 1963
AS THE TRAD scene gradually subsides, promoters of all kinds of teen-beat entertainment heave a long sigh of relief that they have found something to ...
The Rolling Stones: Pop Weirdies Set Out To Play It Grim
Profile by Chris Welch, The Bexleyheath & Welling Observer, January 1964
OF ALL the sensational groups to hit British pop music since the advent of the Mersey Sound and the rhythm 'n' blues revival, the weirdest, ...
The Rolling Stones: France Votes for Les Stones!
Report by Keith Altham, Fabulous, January 1964
It was no surprise to FAB when you voted in our own poll Mick Jagger, "Top Pop Singer of '64." And The Stones the top ...
Gene Pitney: Why 'Tulsa' Made The Charts
Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, January 1964
NORMAN JOPLING SUPPLIES THE ANSWER TO A CURRENT CHART SURPRISE ...
The Rolling Stones: This Horrible Lot – Not Quite What They Seem
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, March 1964
"BUT WOULD YOU LIKE your daughter to marry one?" is what you ask yourself about the Rolling Stones. They've done terrible things to the ...
Take A Middle-Class Value, Stand It On Its Head: You've Got A "Stone"
Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, May 1964
PARENTS DO NOT LIKE the Rolling Stones. They do not want their sons to grow up like them; they do not want their daughters to ...
Andrew Loog Oldham: Secrets Of The Stones' Man
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, August 1964
The Stones are no longer a challenge... they need no pushing... the Andrew Oldham Orchestra doesn't exist ...
The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones No. 2
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, January 1965
"WE THINK IT'S a lot better than our first one... there's a more varied selection of songs... no instrumentals... we cut it at three different ...
The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Paul Revere & The Raiders: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA
Live Review by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, June 1965
STONES SHOW WAS REALLY A ROCKER ...
The Rolling Stones: We Want The Stones (Decca EP)
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, June 1965
STONES EP – EXCITING & DIFFERENT ...
The Rolling Stones: The Stones Hit Back
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, August 1965
I WENT to see the big, bad Rolling Stones during their first-ever performance at the London Palladium last Sunday. ...
The Animals, The Rolling Stones: English Artists Find 'Soul' Music Is More Than Skin Deep
Report and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, September 1965
THE SOUL of today's music, the place "where it's at" is rhythm and blues. The type of music, this "soul", has been around the U.S. ...
Eskimo Boots: The Stars And Kooky Garb: Do Clothes Make The Man?
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, September 1965
DO CLOTHES really make the man? Are they that important? Or are they merely for decoration? ...
We Go To The Rolling Stones' Secret Record Date
Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, October 1965
THE ROLLING Stones were in the U.S. for just two short days. They flew all the way over here to cut some tracks at the ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones Hit Back
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1965
TEATIME with the Rolling Stones in the Ready, Steady, Go! canteen proved most entertaining. David Jacobs was the conversational target to start with. Keith Richard ...
The Rolling Stones: The Girls Waited 8 Hours, Finally Met the Stones!
Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, December 1965
NOBODY'S GOING to get Valerie Stewart, 14, or Patricia Curtis, 13, off their clouds. The guys who put them up on cloud 9 are the ...
The Rolling Stones: World-wide Stones
Report by Keith Altham, NME Annual, 1966
FOR THE Rolling Stones this was the year this was! This was the year that established them as international artists. This was the year that ...
Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, Evening Standard, February 1966
THE ROLLING STONES WERE PLAYING in the Station Hotel, Richmond, two-and-a-half years ago when their two prospective managers came to take a look at them. ...
The Rolling Stones : Neurotic Bird Song
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, February 1966
AN INTERVIEW with the Rolling Stones is something to go to with mixed feelings. The prospect of being confined in a small office off Baker ...
Rolling Stones Have Reached Peak At Home
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, March 1966
BRIAN JONES returned last week from his Australian-American exploits with innumerable albums by Ravi Shankar (an Indian citarist) and wearing his full-length Kangaroo coat. He ...
Report by Keith Altham, NME, April 1966
LIKE THE PIED PIPER the Rolling Stones call the tune in France and wherever they drive in Paris their two long, sleek, black limousines are ...
The Rolling Stones: Mick Will Be Ernie In New Film
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, May 1966
I GOT Stoned again last Friday by Messrs. Jagger and Richard, but am happy to report myself unscathed – it only hurts when I laugh! ...
Keith Richard: The Ignored Stone
Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, May 1966
WHY IS IT Keith Richard is the Stone who receives the least amount of publicity or fanfare? ...
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, July 1966
They Just Hate Stupidity ...
The Rolling Stones: Jagger Phones From America
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, July 1966
LAST FRIDAY Mick Jagger, the suppressed Stone, rang me at home from Missouri, where the group is in the middle of their U.S. tour. ...
Rolling Stone Oldham: Talented, Insulting, Outrageous
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, August 1966
ROLLING STONES manager Andrew Loog Oldham is on the move and as usual with this ubiquitous personality ("The Beach Boys' new single is not dedicated ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones Reveal Secrets
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, September 1966
LAST THURSDAY I went to see "Molly Richard" and "Sarah Jagger" – names Keith and Mick have been called since their famous photograph advertising the ...
The Rolling Stones: New Pop Generation's Revolution Is At Hand
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1966
IN FLANAGAN'S bar off Kensington High Street, Keith Richard, Brian Jones and I were being watched – by two bartenders in Edwardian dress and grey ...
The Rolling Stones/Ike & Tina Turner: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Miles, International Times, October 1966
I ATTENDED the Stones' concert at the Albert Hall which was fun though it turned out to be almost more of a happening than a ...
The Rolling Stones: Come Into Brian Jones' New Hideaway!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1966
A ROLLING STONE in his own environment is a revelation. Brian's new home incorporates his liking for the dramatic with his taste for the antique. ...
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Hullabaloo, November 1966
RELAXING IN my pad. . . Not much to do in the days and weeks ahead. In fact, I'm ready to go on vacation.... ...
The Rolling Stones: The Stones As They Are
Report and Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, December 1966
THERE IS AN OLD saying that if you are going to kick someone in the teeth, use both feet! It's a dangerous principle, but one ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones On The Movie
Report by Keith Altham, NME Annual, 1967
IF YOU'VE EVER been sat in a cement mixer while someone turned the handle or kept awake for three days in a cell with a ...
The Rolling Stones: Between The Buttons (Decca)
Review by Keith Altham, NME, January 1967
The STONES' LATEST ALBUM, reviewed track-by-track by Keith Altham with special comments by Mick Jagger ...
The Rolling Stones: Jagger Scorns Critics
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, January 1967
THOSE naughty Rolling Stones – the ones who write wicked things like 'Let's Spend The Night Together' – wouldn't go on the nice man's roundabout ...
The Rolling Stones: Our Fans Have Moved On With Us
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, February 1967
LET US consider that unique phenomenon – the Rolling Stones' public image! ...
The Rolling Stones Discover A New Generation Of Fans
Interview by Miranda Ward, Hit Parader, March 1967
IN FLANAGAN'S bar off Kensington High Street, Keith Richard, Brian Jones and I were being watched — by two bartenders in Edwardian dress and grey ...
The Rolling Stones: Swedes Riot For The Stones While Jagger Plans A Fresh Tour Draw...
Report and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, April 1967
HALFWAY through their Continental tour last week the Rolling Stones were experiencing scenes of fantastic fan fervour, riots and galloping policemen. ...
Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, June 1967
"People try to put us down just because we get around."The Who – 'My Generation' ...
Monterey Pop Festival: Brian Jones
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
BEAT: Can you comment about what's happening this weekend in Monterey? ...
Rolling Stones: Interviews with Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, August 1967
THE NEW MUSICAL Express versus Michael Philip Jagger – Friday, August 4,1967 in his managers' chambers of high appeal – New Oxford Street, London, – ...
The Rolling Stones: Mick Decides To Play It Cool
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, August 1967
"STONES CASH IN on psychedelic craze! Read all about it!" This was the dramatic headline that swam into Mick Jagger's vision as he answered newspaper ...
Aftermath: Mick Jagger Answers Some Questions
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, August 1967
WHEN I SPOKE to Mick Jagger everything was "nice" and "groovy" with him, so don't believe everything you read in the papers. And he's ...
Rolling Stones Starting To Mellow
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, September 1967
THE TIMES THEY have a-changed, as Bob Dylan predicted – and with them – the Rolling Stones. There was a time when one approached a ...
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, November 1967
Mick Jagger is a person with a lot to think about these days. With no manager, agent or record producer, it's up to him how ...
Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, November 1967
MICK JAGGER IS out on his own and he knows it. He now has no acknowledged manager, no agent and no record producer. The one ...
Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request
Review by Keith Altham, NME, December 1967
KINDLY RAISE YOUR hands in the air. Empty your mind on to the desk and your brains into the ash-tray. Now let us see what ...
The Rolling Stones: The Banned Stones Cover
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 1968
It is ‘We’ against ‘Them-and They’ time again in the Rolling Stones’ life, as they run head-on into another fracas with the ‘oldies’. This time ...
The Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, January 1968
ROLLING STONE CHARLIE WATTS TAKES OVER MANSION OF FIRST ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY! ...
Street Fighting Stone: Mick Jagger Talks
Interview by Miles, International Times, May 1968
This conversation was taped over cups of tea at my house on Lord North Street one afternoon a few days after the famous anti-Vietnam war ...
The Rolling Stones: Will Charlie Watts Wake Up The World?
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1968
BEACH BOYS, Beatles and Donovan chased round the world after the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in search of spiritual peace. ...
The Rolling Stones: Oh, What? Own Up! Just Groove!
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1968
MICK JAGGER, vintage 1968. ...
The Rolling Stones: 'Street Fighting Man' (London 45-909)
Review by Miles, International Times, October 1968
CHE GUEVARA'S band were all poets, Buckminster Fuller writes his architectural papers in poetry, The Rolling Stones sing Revolution! ...
The Case of The Cock-Sure Groupies
Report and Interview by Ellen Sander, Realist, The, November 1968
THE CHORDS come flooding out of the amplifiers like a tonal wave, swelling to an impossible amplitude, blaring, ringing, pounding. A broad beam of noise ...
The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (Decca)
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, November 1968
THE STONES, like the Beatles, have the same, problems, i.e. surpassing their original inspirations. But as the Stones have always set their sights on the ...
The Rolling Stones: How I Survived Beggar's Banquet
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1968
THAT custard pies would one day be hurled by the Rolling Stones at the gentlemen of the press was fairly inevitable. ...
The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1968
IT WAS a group fan's dream, when the giants of pop held a three hour jam session, while rehearsing for the Rolling Stones' Rock And ...
Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth
Report by Keith Altham, NME, December 1968
THE ROLLING STONES put in some overtime last Wednesday when they spent 17 hours working on their telethon production of The Rock and Roll Circus ...
Rolling Stones: Year Of The Stones' New Heart
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME Annual, 1969
THIS WAS THE year of the "heart" transplant for the Rolling Stones at a stage when it was feared the patient was fading away. The ...
Brian Jones: Over His Dead Body
Obituary by Al Aronowitz, New York Post, 1969
I AM STANDING with Brian Jones at the window of his hotel suite when we looked down into this open sore in the bedrock fifteen ...
The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (London)
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, January 1969
Beggars' Triumph ...
Jagger In 3-D (part 1): The First Dimension – The Present
Interview by Keith Altham, Melody Maker, March 1969
KEITH ALTHAM begins his three-part series on Mick Jagger by attempting to assess where he is now, the most controversial and greatest Anti-Hero of our ...
Jagger In 3-D (part 2): Second Dimension — Jagger On Stage
Interview by Keith Altham, Melody Maker, March 1969
KEITH ALTHAM looks into the past for the SECOND DIMENSION in his series on Mick Jagger to discover the strengths and weaknesses in the Rolling ...
Jagger In 3-D (part 3): Third Dimension — The Future
Interview by Keith Altham, Melody Maker, March 1969
"BUT HE can't go an being a Rolling Stone for ever, can he?" asked Joe Public spitefully. ...
The Rolling Stones: The Stones Roll Again
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1969
How Mick's facing up to the brave new world of getting the show back on the road: MICK JAGGER talks to Chris Welch about the ...
The Rolling Stones: Jagger Rap/Stoned Earful
Interview by Mark Williams, International Times, July 1969
FEELING RATHER like a tin can on a conveyor belt, moving along waiting to be filled with fruit salad or spaghetti, I went along to ...
The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park: Out of the Way
Report by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, July 1969
A world turned upside down ...
The Rolling Stones et al: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, July 1969
CHRIS WELCH SAYS: 'Somehow the magic worked' ...
Stones Working Hard — And Mick Goes On Guitar
Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, October 1969
IF YOU’VE STUDIED your record covers, then you’ll probably be familiar with the name of Ian Stewart. Their equipment manager and mate, he has been ...
The Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Jagger
Comment by Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, October 1969
THE WIDENING gap between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones has been labelled as the contrast between aesthetics and politics. The difference between the two ...
The Rolling Stones/B.B. King: Oakland Coliseum, California
Live Review by Tom Donahue, Cashbox, November 1969
THE ROLLING STONES are in action in the United States for a tour that currently includes 14 major cities in most of which they will ...
The Rolling Stones: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, November 1969
The Rolling Stones Are Still ExcitingMadness of the Beatles Brought Here Again ...
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (Decca)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, January 1970
IT'S ONLY after deliberately listening to the complete Stone's recorded output (9 albums, umpteen singles, 1 promotional album, 2 EPs) that one really appreciates just ...
Report and Interview by Sheila Weller, Rolling Stone, May 1970
TANGIER – He shakes another pebble oul of the foot-long, coral-and silver-encrusted stash pouch, pokes an amber-ringed forefinger under the schlockedelic fake-silk ascot he has ...
Goodbye Great Britain: The Rolling Stones On Tour
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, April 1971
LONDON – "Boogie, Bobby, boogie," Marshall Chess is saying over and over to Bobby Keys in the seat next to him, slamming out the phrase ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones In Exile
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, April 1971
CANNES is a strange place. It sits on the Cote D'Azur beckoning the rich to part with their dollars, pounds and francs in glorious sunshine. ...
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
Review by Mick Farren, Ink, May 1971
IF THERE'S such a position as world's top rock & roll band, the Stones now occupy it, though it's happened more by default of the ...
The Rolling Stones: Bobby Keys
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, May 1971
"IT'S BOBBY Keys, the greatest saxophone player in the world," said Mick Jagger. And Bobby smiled modestly towards me. ...
The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers; Graham Nash: Songs for Beginners
Review by Ellen Sander, Saturday Review, June 1971
THERE IS A tendency these days, particularly among writers, to become disillusioned with or even apathetic about pop. Among the peculiar literary breed that rock ...
The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards
Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, August 1971
KEITH PLAYS in a rock & roll band. Anita is a movie star queen. They currently reside in a large white marble house that everyone ...
Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, December 1971
I HAVE been writing about music for years, and am now trying to play myself. This changes matters. ...
The Stones in LA: Main St. Exiles
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, April 1972
LOS ANGELES – One year, to the weekend, after the Rolling Stones played the final concert of their "farewell" tour of England, Mick Jagger is ...
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Review by Richard Williams, Times, The, May 1972
IN A VERY few days from now, the Rolling Stones begin their massive tour of America. And with the tour comes a new album, Exile ...
The Rolling Stones: The Forum, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Danny Holloway, NME, June 1972
WEEKS PRIOR to their Los Angeles date, the entire population in L.A. was struck by Stones fever. Tickets went quick and 350,000 people had to ...
The Rolling Stones: The Long Road to Room Ten-O-Nine
Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, June 1972
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street ...
Rolling Stones: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Disc and Music Echo, June 1972
VIRTUALLY nowhere during the past week could a Hollywood hipster fail to encounter signs proclaiming the purchasability (mostly at prices reminiscent of a prince's ransom) ...
The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main St. (Rolling Stones)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, July 1972
THERE ARE SONGS that are better, there are songs that are worse, there are songs that'll become your favourites and others you'll probably lift the ...
The Rolling Stones Tour: Rock & Roll On The Road Again
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, July 1972
LOS ANGELES – Danny has no shirt, no shoes, no wallet, no keys. The shirt went when he took it off and stuck it in ...
The Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Gas Flash Bops In Heartland
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, July 1972
IN TRANSIT – Underway at last. In flight and moving. Denver, Minneapolis, and Chicago in one Sunday, the limo to the plane to the limo ...
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, August 1972
IN CHICAGO, in the house that Playboy built, an anonymous brownstone on a quiet leafy street that Hugh Hefner calls home, the scene is a ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones In The Sun (part 1)
Report and Interview by Danny Holloway, NME, December 1972
All-night rock; drug rumours; new album. Danny Holloway reports. ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones In The Sun (part 2)
Report and Interview by Danny Holloway, NME, December 1972
JAMAICA IS a country of convenience – which means nobody's going to put themselves out for you, unless it's convenient for them. ...
Profile and Interview by James Fox, Sunday Times Magazine, August 1973
ALL THROUGH THE night while they rehearsed for the European tour, Keith Richards stood there in a trance with himself, rocking slowly backwards and forwards, ...
The Rolling Stones Hit The Road…
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, August 1973
...and at every date the promoter is expected to provide 50 security men, five limousines, a doctor, ten dozen roses, two bottles each of whisky, ...
The Rolling Stones: Goat’s Head Soup?
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, August 1973
"GOAT'S HEAD SOUP," said Mick Jagger pacing about the room. "I might change it. A lot of people don't like it. Too bad." A typically ...
The Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup
Review by Nick Kent, NME, September 1973
FIRST COMES the riff. It's like 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' 'cept it's slowed down so it sounds like it's being played on horse tranquilliser. Ominous and ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones-On-The Road Special
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, September 1973
THE LADY behind the amps, staring hazily at Billy Preston and his band performing on stage, looked elegantly damaged. Half of her face was covered ...
The Rolling Stones: Dead Goats And Other Delicacies
Interview by Nick Kent, NME, September 1973
THE CURRENT European tour has again given us all the opportunity to dogmatically state that the Rolling Stones are indeed the greatest rock 'n' roll ...
The Rolling Stones: Up Against The Wall and Other Seedy Tales
Report by Nick Kent, NME, October 1973
WEST BERLIN has to be the absolute lowest, scuzziest dive sprawled out within the bounding perimeters of Western Capitalist Society. ...
The Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, November 1973
THERE IS NOTHING GOOD about the new Rolling Stones album. No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Not even anything that can be turned around and stretched and ...
Rolling Stones: Goats Head Soup (RS Records)
Review by Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, November 1973
THE CONTEST for the title of ‘The Worlds' Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band’ is like those dance marathons that were held in the States during ...
Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, November 1973
IT WAS AN unusually hot week in Kingston, Jamaica. Early spring this year. I was having lunch at an outdoor cafe with an up and ...
The Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, November 1973
HISTORY HAS PROVEN it unwise to jump to conclusions about Rolling Stones albums. At first Sticky Fingers seemed merely a statement of doper hipness on ...
Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974
Being a rock star has its advantages, but the spotlight is usually only big enough for one person. Circus took a behind stage look at ...
Fashion: The Politics of Flash
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, April 1974
NICK KENT traces the Rise and Fall of The Satin Jacket...and generally walks it like he talks it into the land of 'Rock Chic.' ...
Rolling Stones: "Are They Too Rich To Rock?"
Report by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, May 1974
The Rolling Stones: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones ...
Rolling Stones: Jagger – It's Time For A Change
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, August 1974
"SORRY I'm late." "It's all right Mick." "No – it's not all right." ...
The Stones: It Wasn't Only Rock 'n Roll (And I Liked It)
Retrospective by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
IN EARLY 1967 a rumor shot through the Crawdaddy office that Brian Jones had left the Stones. Tim Jurgens and I agreed that, if true, ...
The Rolling Stones: It’s Only Rock ’N Roll
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1974
"The Best Party Album In Years" ...
Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Rolling Stone, December 1974
Twenty-one albums on, Keith Richard is back in Richmond, the Thameside London suburb where the Rolling Stones first played the local clubs 12 years ago. ...
Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #3: What did Rod Stewart, Bobby Womack and Mick Jagger sing...
Report by Nick Kent, NME, April 1975
...in a tune-up room on the last night of the Faces' 1975 LA gigs? Why, the closing aria in D from 'il Cavalleria Rusticana', of ...
Ron Wood Joins the Rolling Stones
Report by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, June 1975
WITH THE SUDDEN decisiveness of an eagle that spots its unsuspecting prey from hundreds of feet away, the Rolling Stones are touring North and South ...
The Rolling Stones - Made in the Shade and Metamorphosis
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1975
ECONOMICS: When a famous big-time rock and roll band reaches that particular special point in its year when it's time to pack the clean socks ...
The Rolling Stones: Metamorphosis
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, July 1975
THE FASCINATION of Metamorphosis, basically a collection of outtakes, oddities and alternate versions, lies in what it adds to our experience and knowledge of the ...
The Rolling Stones: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, July 1975
Frenetic, laid back Stones ...
Rolling Stones: Tour Of The Americas 1975
Report by Mick Farren, NME, July 1975
The Usherettes at the Los Angeles Forum all wear short Roman tunics, and calf-length, white mid-sixties style boots. The outfit gives them the looks of ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, July 1975
"HEY MICKIE BAAABY," a disc jockey screams loudly after playing 'Get Off Of My Cloud' for the third time that afternoon for the greater metropolis ...
Mick Jagger: I Can Get It Up, But I Can't Get It Down
Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1975
OF COURSE, Mick Jagger was talking about flying the twin-engine Cessna which had brought him into the Marine Air Terminal in New York's LaGuardia Airport ...
Keith Richards: The Weasel Walks In
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, August 1975
Barbara Charone talks to Keith Richard, the man who Mick Jagger introduces as 'the guy on sort of vocals' ...
Billy Preston: Like a Rolling Stone
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, August 1975
"We're a family," says Billy Preston of his current tour of the U.S. with the Stones. And in addition to that, he's just released a ...
Robert Greenfield: A Journey through America with the Rolling Stones
Book Review by Mick Farren, NME, September 1975
I FEAR THIS book may be the one that could finally O.D. the reader on rock writing, particularly that flat, conscientious, detailed, post-Truman Capote style ...
The Rolling Stones: Rolled Gold
Review by Mick Farren, NME, November 1975
DECCA RECORDS, even though their past form on the subject of Rolling Stones albums is not immaculate, have now produced what is undoubtedly the definitive ...
Ron Wood: Cast Your Fate To The Wind, The Faces, Or The Rolling Stones
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, January 1976
THE MINI-CAB DRIVER was confused. "Ron Wood," he kept repeating all the way to Richmond. The name was familiar but it's origin was a mystery. ...
Faces Break Up – Wood a Stone?
Report by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, January 1976
LOS ANGELES – After a six-year association, Rod Stewart is leaving the Faces. The news was revealed at a London press conference called by Stewart ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, March 1976
BILL WYMAN could not stop smiling. He's just received several cassettes full of classic singles by Gary And The US Bonds. Large KLH speakers spread ...
The Rolling Stones: The Gospel According To The Glimmer Twins
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, April 1976
KEITH RICHARD hasn't slept for three days. It's all part of his four day on the road life cycle. He celebrates the occasion with a ...
The Rolling Stones: Black And Blue (Rolling Stones Records)
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, April 1976
'THE SEVENTIES has witnessed the arrival of several major talents. Singer-songwriters and MOR disco muzak have dominated the charts. Now it looks like Atlantic Records ...
Rolling Stones: Black And Blue
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1976
"THE ROLLING STONES are a really good band, but, like, I consider them like a boys' band because they don't play mens music. They don't ...
The Rolling Stones: Black And Blue (COC)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, May 1976
IN THE FOUR years that have passed since the release of Exile On Main Street, perhaps their greatest album, The Stones have managed to put ...
The Rolling Stones: Too Rolled To Stone
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, May 1976
THE NICE THING about the law of gravity is that it applies to everybody. ...
The Rolling Stones: Fire and Fury in Frankfurt
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, May 1976
FORTY POUNDS for one night in a hotel. It makes you wonder. Forty Pounds would keep me and the missus for a week or more, ...
The Rolling Stones: Gathering No Moss
Profile and Interview by James Fox, Sunday Times, May 1976
IN GLASGOW tomorrow, the Rolling Stones begin the British section of their European tour, which ends with six concerts at Earl's Court – an unusual ...
The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue (Rolling Stones)
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, May 1976
Decembers Children Today: Glimmer Twins Star As Stones Roll On ...
The Rolling Stones: The Rock 'N' Roll Circus Hits Town
Live Review by Nick Kent, NME, May 1976
THE ROLLING STONES first night at Earl's Court, back in the ol' U.K. NICK KENT was there. Need we say more? ...
Mick Jagger: I Want To Go Out On A Limb
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, August 1976
PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE hovering around the sedate Scottish hotel lobby like desperate fireflies. They have been buzzing about all afternoon, nervously checking shutter speeds and light ...
Rolling Stones: We're Nearly Famous
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, August 1976
"WHEN bands have been around this long they should be dead and buried," Keith Richard mused. "But we're still here and you have to live ...
The Rolling Stones: Live at Leicester
Live Review by Simon Frith, Creem, September 1976
ACCORDING TO PATTI SMITH, Mick Jagger is the best dancer since Nijinsky. Well I ain't ever seen Nijinsky dance (though I did see him win ...
Keith Richards: The Pusher Behind The Stones
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, October 1976
AT FIVE O'CLOCK in the morning, Keith Richards sits sipping Jack Daniel's in his hotel room 50 miles west of Glasgow on Scotland's coast. ...
Cocksucker Blues: A Film by Robert Frank and Danny Seymour
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, December 1976
This unreleased – and suppressed – documentary of The Stones’ ’72 US tour is far and away the most revealingly powerful rock & roll movie ...
Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1976
AFTERMATH CATCHES the Rolling Stones in transit: somewhere in between pissing on garage walls and the mass dope busts, after their first long spell on ...
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, 1977
THEY HAVE PARTICIPATED IN AND provoked the transformation of the morals and manners of their generation so effectively that to future social historians the Rolling ...
Keith Richard: One Man's Week OFF THE HOOK
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, January 1977
MONDAY, JANUARY 10th. In Colorado, Claudine Longet, ex-wife of singer Andy Williams, stood trial for allegedly murdering her lover. On America's west coast, kidnap victim/revolutionary ...
Keith Richard: Exile On The 32nd Floor
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, April 1977
Take me to the airportAnd put me on a planeI've got no expectationsTo pass through here again ...
Advance Warning of New Meisterworks Department
Report by Miles, NME, July 1977
Stones: Got Duff Chord Changes If You Want THE ROLLING STONES — even Bill and Charlie — have all been in New York this ...
The Rolling Stones: Love You Live (Rolling Stones Records)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, September 1977
JUST UNDER a minute into the first side – there's been the usual audience mayhem, a snippet of exotic percussion, cannons firing, about four bars ...
Mick Jagger Hits Out At Everything In Sight!
Interview by Nick Kent, NME, October 1977
IF ONLY IT HADN'T all been so damnedly, unrelentingly...uh...amicable. ...
The Rolling Stones: Love You LIve
Review by Don Snowden, Rock Around The World, November 1977
SIT BACK and try to imagine, the world of rock and roll over the past ten or 15 years without thinking of the Rolling Stones. ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, January 1978
MICK JAGGER sat athletically on the floor of the Rolling Stones' New York office listening to The Best of Ray Charles. ...
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, June 1978
ONE OF THE most interesting personalities of the first decade of British rock was the Rolling Stones' sharp-tongued, red-headed manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. ...
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, June 1978
WHICHEVER WAY you look at it, this is an important album of the first order. Important primarily because it's the first album (excluding Love You ...
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1978
THESE LAST two or three years, the Stones haven't really been that important to rock and roll. ...
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1978
AH, THE NEW Stones album. For me the most feverishly-anticipated event between the first album in 1963 and Black and Blue two years ago was ...
The Rolling Stones: Glimmer Twins Held Responsible
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, July 1978
"WE CAN DO a lot more with this particular band than any other incarnation of the Rolling Stones," Keith Richard threatened during the Stones' 1975 ...
Stones Still Hungry After All These Years
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Unicorn Times, July 1978
THE ROLLING STONES first crawled into our collective hearts as a teenage working class street punk band. And now, here are Keith Richard and Mick ...
The Rolling Stones: Back Door Men
Interview by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, September 1978
Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman aren't exactly garrulous types. But behind the... er... stony facade lies a commitment which has kept them pumping up the ...
The Back Line: Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts
Report and Interview by John Pidgeon, Creem, November 1978
IN A SMOKY CUTTING ROOM on Sunset Boulevard, the entire history of rock and roll flashed before my eyes: Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little ...
Profile by Kris DiLorenzo, Grooves, January 1979
FOR THE past fifteen years the Rolling Stones have been known as the "world's greatest rock and roll band." That's why it's hard for most ...
An Outlaw At The Ritz: Keith Richards
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, January 1979
In which Keef holds up the price of Smirnoff shares, little Marlon holds up his Dad, Anita Pallenberg holds up the interview, and CHRIS WELCH ...
Brian Jones: 28, February 1944 — 3 July, 1969
Retrospective by Nick Kent, NME, June 1979
Ten Years after his death, a re-appraisal of the life and times of the Rolling Stone who was crushed by success ...
The Sea's Endless, Awful Rhythm & Me Without Even a Dirty Picture
Book Excerpt by Nick Tosches, Stranded, Ed. Greil Marcus, December 1979
CALL ME Gilligan. As I confront in earnest the problems of divine retribution, way-out sex, and the value of the Folk Mass, so I confront ...
The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)****
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, June 1980
"IMAGE IS so important to rock stars. Mick Jagger is the rock star with the longest running image. He's the one all the young white ...
Mick and Miles (A Musical in Several Parts)
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, The, 1981
A remarkable personal reminiscence of the night the author took rock star Mick Jagger to meet jazz star Miles Davis turns into rock/jazz history and ...
The Rolling Stones: What Makes the Stones Keep Rolling
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, Fall 1981
THE JOHN F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia, is a bleak circle of red-tinted stone, with colonnades and sub-Gothic arch-ways recalling some nineteenth century British colonial fort. ...
The Rolling Stones: Tiers Are Not Enough
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, July 1982
The Rolling Stones: Wembley Stadium, London ...
The Rolling Stones: Undercover
Review by Van Gosse, Village Voice, November 1983
The Stones Try Harder ...
Review by Anthony DeCurtis, Record Magazine, 1984
VIOLENCE OF both sexual and political nature is never more than a shout away on Undercover, the Rolling Stones' first studio LP since 1981's much ...
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, California Living, 1985
ON ITS LATEST tour, the band pulled in a cool $30 million. How? Ask its leader Mick Jagger who, at thirty-eight, still leaps with satisfaction. ...
Keith Richards: An English Werewolf in London
Interview by Mat Snow, NME, February 1986
WHAT BECOMES a legend most? So exactly how I'd imagined it was the scene that I wouldn't have dared make it up. Before we enter, ...
The Rolling Stones: Exiles on Mainstream
Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, March 1986
Being a Rolling Stone used to mean never having to pick up a Grammy. Until now. ...
'Shelter' from the Storm: Merry Clayton
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, March 1986
MERRY CLAYTON'S spine-chilling vocal in the middle of ‘Gimme Shelter’ is one of the most electrifying moments in rock history but you couldn't blame Clayton ...
The Rolling Stones: Dirty Work
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1986
IN THE 1970s, The Rolling Stones were a distinctly unlovely proposition: fronted by a jet-setter and a junkie and churning out a series of tedious ...
Keith Richards Shares His Songwriting Secrets
Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar for the Practicing Musician, July 1986
LIKE A POLITICIAN ON THE PODIUM, whistle-stopping across the boondocks on a flatbed, Keith Richards has his share of timeless bromides, comfortable answers his tongue ...
Bill Wyman: Dirty Work Behind The Scenes
Interview by Chris Welch, Creem, August 1986
"WE SPENT FIVE months in Paris making the Stones' new album, and it doesn't usually take that long. We messed around for weeks because Mick ...
Mick Jagger: A Trial Separation
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, October 1987
WORLD'S END, CHELSEA, just down the King's Road from the old Drug Store, there's a charmingly delapidated terraced house that serves as occasional management offices ...
Out Of The Cage: An interview with Keith Richards
Interview by Ira Robbins, unpublished, September 1988
IR: You’ve done a lot of interviews lately. It’s hard to pick questions you haven’t been asked... ...
Stanley Booth: Myth and Misquotation
Essay by Greil Marcus, Threepenny Review, Fall 1988
This was originally the address at the commencement ceremonies of the Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, on 20th May 1988. Greil Marcus ...
Stone Alone: A Rare Interview with Mick Taylor
Interview by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, July 1989
MICK TAYLOR initially came into the public spotlight as the very young (17 years old) replacement for the renowned Peter Green in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. ...
The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels
Review by David Sinclair, Q, October 1989
NOT ONLY did The Rolling Stones come out of the traps considerably faster than the current wave of mouthy young turks but they have stayed ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, July 1990
YOU CAN look Keith Richards in the eye and ask him if he's spent all his adult life divorced from reality. He stops, inclines his ...
The Rolling Stones: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Steven Wells, NME, July 1990
AS THE Stones plodded through crap recent album track after crap recent album track we became restless. We started shouting abuse at the fans. They ...
The Rolling Stones: A Game of Two Halves
Report by Robert Sandall, Q, August 1990
There are 287 workers on the Day Shift, ensuring the impeccable construction of the Stones' three gigantic stages as they "leapfrog" around the European stadium ...
Book Review by Mat Snow, Q, August 1990
ONE WOULD IMAGINE that even the most loyal fan must be groaning under the weight of paper and ink dedicated of late to the venerable ...
Book Review by Mat Snow, Q, December 1990
UNTIL HE WAS 26, Bill Perks was a suburban South Londoner, married with a kid and a secure job, having done his National Service rising ...
Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones And The Death Of The Sixties
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, January 1991
THE HISTORIES of the legendary rock bands and movie stars have been told so often that they have not so much achieved the status of ersatz ...
Who the hell does Bill Wyman think he is?
Interview by Mat Snow, Q, January 1991
WITH SOME 15 minutes to go before the appointed end of our 60-minute afternoon session, your reporter is having a decidedly sticky moment with Bill ...
Rolling into Discord with a Single Song
Interview by Steve Turner, Times, The, February 1991
With the release next month of the song ‘High Wire’, The Rolling Stones will become the first big rock act to refer directly to the ...
The Rolling Stones: Flashpoint
Review by David Sinclair, Q, May 1991
THE STEEL MACHINE/Urban Jungle extravaganza of 1989 and '90 was the most colossal tour the rock world has ever witnessed. By its close, The Rolling ...
Keef: Exile just a shot away from Main Street
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, European, The, September 1992
IT HAS become something of a cliche to say that Keith Richards is the Rolling Stones. ...
Interview by Mat Snow, Q, November 1992
IN THE MIDDLE of the night, all blocks in mid-Manhattan offer a blank facade. But behind one particular stout steel door lurks a true temple ...
Who The Hell Does Mick Jagger Think He Is?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, March 1993
MICK WAS so out of it that I could tell the waiters were scared he'd pass out. His head was so far back and he ...
Interview by Robert Sandall, MOJO, May 1994
INTERVIEWS WITH CHARLIE WATTS were once memorably described as being "as rare as rocking horse shit". Like many of the jazz players he admires so ...
The Rolling Stones: VooDoo Lounge
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, August 1994
CONFRONTED BY THE FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN NEARLY FIVE years, for most Stones fans the question is not, Is it as good as Exile/Beggars/name your ...
Interview by Robin Eggar, Esquire, 1995
IN THE UPSTAIRS room in Henry's Wine Bar wine bar overlooking the River Thames a French TV crew are lathering themselves into over excitement. Mick ...
Keith Richards: The Q 100 interview
Interview by Bill Prince, Q, January 1995
How the devil are you?I'm fine, man. Very, very well. ...
The Rolling Stones: How It Happened
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, May 1995
By 1963, The Rollin' Stones lacked only a "g" and a manager. Enter Andrew Loog Oldham, 19-year-old music publicist and soon-to-be Stones Svengali... ...
Rolling Stones in Hyde Park # 1
Memoir by Mark Cooper, MOJO, July 1995
THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE VERY nature of being a schoolboy that necessitates getting caught. In the summer of 1969, I was boarding in the lower ...
Rolling Stones in Hyde Park # 2
Memoir by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, July 1995
MENTION THE STONES IN THE PARK to me or a dozen or so other guys from Stationers' School in Hornsey and, chances are, we'd start ...
Rolling Stones in Hyde Park # 3
Memoir by Penny Reel, MOJO, July 1995
IT IS OF COURSE A memorable occasion among the many I experience during years in pursuit of musical diversion, although in truth I barely remember ...
Andrew Loog Oldham: The Rolling Stones' First Manager And Producer
Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, November 1995
THERE ARE only a handful of rock managers who truly deserve the epithet great, those whose reputations have lived on long after the sell-by date ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, December 1995
GOT LIVE If You Want It... ...so bragged The Rolling Stones of their first live album, recorded at the ...
Ten Questions for Charlie Watts
Interview by Chris Ingham, MOJO, July 1996
Long Ago And Far Away, standards performed by jazz quintet, string orchestra and vocalist, sounds like a continuation of your last album, Warm And Tender. ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones' Last Tour (Before The Next Five)
Report by Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, September 1997
LOOKS LIKE the Rolling Stones plan to keep on rolling well into the next millennium. On August 18, 1997, they launched their most recent album/tour ...
The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Babylon (Virgin)
Review by Paul Moody, NME, September 1997
TO CALL the Stones dinosaurs three years from the end of the century is to put tyrannosauraus rex and his Jurassic associates to shame. It ...
The Rolling Stones: Bridges To Babylon
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 1997
EMBOLDENED BY the success of both Voodoo Lounge and Stripped, the Stones have retained Don Was as co-producer for their third album in succession, a ...
The Rolling Stones Chase The Voodoo Down
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Musician, October 1997
"MY WHOLE behavior with the Rolling Stones is governed by my first encounter with Keith," recalls Don Was. "He sent me a fax before we ...
Keith Richards: How Do You Stop?
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 1997
"DON’T BE MISLED!" shouts the faded 8" x 8" flyer propped up on a baby grand piano in the mansion Keith Richards is renting in ...
Bill Wyman: Former Stone Gets Rolling
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, February 1998
BILL WYMAN is one of only two former Rolling Stones still...well, rolling around – the other, of course, being Mick Taylor – but he is ...
Charlie Watts: The Esquire Interview
Interview by Robin Eggar, Esquire, June 1998
Emotional rescueI'VE MADE more of a mess of my Toronto hotel room in 30 minutes than Charlie Watts has after three weeks in his suite. ...
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1998
THE ROCK'N'ROLL documentary is in fine shape in the Nineties, thanks mainly to the BBC. Second series of both Rock Family Trees and Classic Albums ...
On Stoney Ground with Bernard Fowler
Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, July 1998
ROCKERS CAN be free spirits and generous souls, and many of them are – often surprisingly so. Nevertheless, they can also be susceptible to feelings ...
Mick Jagger: The Old Man and The Sex
Profile by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1999
For years he's been renowned as a serial-philandering, penny-wise dinosaur of rock – still implicated in paternity suits for divorce settlements in his mid-50s. But ...
Redlands: The Drug Bust of The Rolling Stones
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, May 1999
Friday 11th February 1967. Keith Richard has just invited you down to Redlands, his fourteenth-century manor house in Sussex, for the weekend. Mick and Marianne ...
The Rolling Stones and black American culture
Essay by James Maycock, Independent, The, June 1999
A bitchy look at how the Rolling Stones’ career is excessively/artfully indebted to black American culture. ...
Retrospective by Rob Chapman, MOJO, July 1999
CHANCES ARE, regardless of where or what location you grew up in, there's a couple of types you've known at one time or another. Firstly, ...
Altamont: An Eyewitness Account
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, November 1999
The Rosy Apocalypse ALTAMONT, 6th December, 1969. The name itself is fraught with menace – its flinty suggestive syllables (altar-mountain-tumult) reinforcing biblical overtones. ("The ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 2000
As manager of The Rolling Stones for most of the Sixties, ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM became almost as famous as the band themselves. Modelling himself on ...
Tuning the Key of the Universe: Jack Nitzsche Remembered
Profile and Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2001
Jack Nitzsche, who died last August at the age of 63, was a seminal but shadowy figure in rock ’n’ roll since the early '60s. ...
God (Marianne Faithfull) and the Devil (Anita Pallenberg) Talk About Their Ab Fab episode
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2001
AFTER A six-year break the outrageous Britcom Absolutely Fabulous is back with a new six-part series. The "Donkey" episode airing on the Comedy Channel on ...
Retrospective by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 2001
THE TWO pre-eminent British bands of the gaudy 1960s marked the grey dawn of the 1970s in very different ways. ...
The Backpages Interview: Andrew Loog Oldham
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, January 2001
Last year saw the UK publication of Stoned, a wonderfully insightful film/fashion/music overview of the first Britpop era (1960-1964) by Andrew Loog Oldham, perhaps best ...
Rockumentaries on the Biography Channel
Film/DVD Review by Mark Pringle, Mat Snow, Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2001
Not long ago, any glimpse on the box of a great musician was like catching sight of the lesser spotted grebe – all the lovelier ...
Imaging The Stones: John Van Hamersveld
Book Excerpt by John Van Hamersveld, Rock's Backpages, August 2001
John Van Hamersveld was one of the key poster artists of the psychedelic rock era in Los Angeles. He was also the man to whom ...
The Rolling Stones: Old Gods Almost Dead
Interview by David Dalton, Gadfly, December 2001
David Dalton Talks to Stephen Davis, Author of the First Full-Dress Biography of the Rolling Stones in Twenty Years ...
Bill Wyman: The Classic Rock Interview
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002
OVER THE COURSE of the last forty years probably more column inches of copy have been dedicated to the cavalier exploits of the Rolling Stones ...
Retrospective by Rick McGrath, Ojo, 2002
1972, Unreleased; 95 min, color (no video release). CAST: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor, Danny Seymour, Bianca Jagger, Tina Turner, ...
Rolling Away the Stones: Stanley and I
Essay by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages, January 2002
Michael Lydon was the other reporter on the infamous Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of America. This is his recollection of meeting Stanley Booth, and the ...
If You Want To Know Anything, Ask Stanley: A Memoir
Memoir by Tina McElroy Ansa, David Sandison, Chris Wohlwend, Rock's Backpages, January 2002
David Sandison handled PR for the Rolling Stones when Stanley Booth went on the road with them in 1969. ...
Retrospective by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, October 2002
FEBRUARY 1977. KEITH RICHARDS, SLEEPING like a baby, is being carried around his hotel room in the arms of a Canadian Mountie. There are other ...
The Rolling Stones: The Crowning of King Mick
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, Sunday Times, October 2002
It is hard to believe that Mick Jagger was once just another Rolling Stone. How did he become an idol? Chris Salewicz, his biographer, tells ...
The Rolling Stones: Forty Licks
Review by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 2002
HERE'S AN album with something for everyone. For Virgin/EMI it's a shot at a Beatles 1-style blockbuster to prop up sagging third-quarter figures. For newbies ...
The Rolling Stones: Remasters Series
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, November 2002
IN A ROCK ERA where back catalogue is king, The Rolling Stones have hitherto been ill-served by their servants. Their one-time peers The Beatles have ...
The Rolling Stones Play With Fire
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2002
IF IT'S DIFFICULT to understand the initial impact of The Beatles without understanding the nature of their times and society, it's quite impossible to understand ...
10 Reasons Why the Rolling Stones Were the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band
Comment by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, November 2002
I. BRIAN JONES' HAIR ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, December 2002
ON DECEMBER 18 next year, he'll celebrate, simultaneously, his 60th birthday and 20 years of marriage to Patti Hansen. He's a father of four, and ...
Mick Jagger: Sympathy for the Old Devil
Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent on Sunday, July 2003
"YOU'RE A FUNNY little fella," the gangster played by James Fox tells the reclusive rock star played by Mick Jagger in Donald Cammell and Nicolas ...
The Rolling Stones: Ol' Rubber Lips Isn't Telling...
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent, The, August 2003
According to The Rolling Stones (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)The Rolling Stones' history is wild and controversial, full of sex, drugs, bust-ups, scandal and death. Disappointing, then, ...
The Rolling Stones: Alive and Kicking
Book Review by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, August 2003
According To The Rolling Stones edited by Dora Loewenstein, Philip Dodd and Charlie Watts (Weidenfeld £30 pp359) ...
And Sitteth At The Right Hand Of God…
Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Rock's Backpages, December 2003
Jonh Ingham recalls a night in the presence of Keith Richards, April 1976. ...
The Achievement of Madness: Performance
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
PERFORMANCE only gets better with the passing years. A key late ‘60s text, Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg’s film brings two Swinging London worlds together ...
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, Los Angeles Times, October 2004
THE ROLLING Stones were there, along with James Brown, the Beach Boys, the Supremes, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye and more, filmed live before their screaming ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2005
THEIR SEVENTH concert record, if you’re counting ...
Brian Jones: The Life Of Brian
Retrospective by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2005
IT'S CLOSE to midnight on Wednesday, July 2, 1969, and Brian Jones is dead in the deep end of his swimming pool. ...
Skuawk! DVD Pick: The Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus
Film/DVD Review by Gary Pig Gold, skuawk.com, February 2005
I THINK WE'RE more than all in agreement here that something very, very special took place during the middle 1960's; a magical, monumental something in ...
The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2005
EIGHT YEARS ON from Bridges To Babylon, the longest ever gap between studio releases, one question begs to be asked: Does anybody really need a ...
Rolling With The Stones: A Backstage Exclusive With Side-Guys Chuck Leavell and Darryl Jones
Interview by Greg Phillips, Australian Musician, June 2006
More than forty years on, the Rolling Stones still pack a mighty mean punch on stage. Sure, nostalgia accounts for much of the electricity they ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 2007
TO BE A Rolling Stone is a singular occupation. Last autumn, the phone rang at Ronnie Wood's Manhattan lodgings. Hello, it's Hillary Clinton. She said, ...
First Effects: Caught by the Fuzz
Retrospective by Matthew Frost, Guitar Buyer, April 2007
In the first part of our new series, Matt Frost takes a trip back to 1965. It's the 27th of May and the Rolling Stones ...
Exile on Main St: A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones, By Robert Greenfield (Da Capo Press)
Book Review by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, February 2008
In the summer of 1971, Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg holed up in a villa on the Riviera with the other members of the Rolling ...
The Rolling Stones Shine A Light Concert Film Opens April 4th
Report by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, April 2008
ON APRIL 4th director Martin Scorsese's concert documentary on the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light, was released and distributed in the U.S. by Paramount Classics ...
Merry Clayton on the Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' Session
Retrospective and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 2009
MERRY CLAYTON was born on Christmas Day and a graduate of Jefferson High School's music department then under renowned instructor Sam Browne, in Los Angeles, ...
The Rolling Stones at the Ricky-Tick, January 1963
Memoir by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, April 2009
THE FIRST TIME I hear Cyril Davies blow his harmonica is January 1963 at Leo's Jazz Club in Windsor. As I approach, shoulders hunched against ...
Villa Nellcote: Tommy Weber Arrives at the Rolling Stones' French Stronghold
Book Excerpt by Robert Greenfield, 'A Day in the Life' (Da Capo), July 2009
In this excerpt from his brilliant new A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the '60s, Robert Greenfield ...
More British R&B: The Stones Start, Blues Incorporated Stumble
Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, October 2009
THE FIRST PUBLIC appearance of what would one day be touted as "the greatest rock and roll band in the world" was hardly headline news, ...
The Greatest (Pop TV) Show on Earth: The T.A.M.I. Show, October 1964
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages, March 2010
ON 28 OCTOBER, 1964, the T.A.M.I. Show was recorded at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. T.A.M.I. stood for Television Audience Measurement Index, though ...
The Rolling Stones: Andy Johns on recording Exile On Main St.
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, March 2010
ANDY JOHNS is a world class sound engineer and record producer. On May 18th his work with the Rolling Stones on their 1972 Exile On ...
Bobby Keys: Sax Sideman Extraordinaire
Profile and Interview by Tarquin Campbell, Rock's Backpages, May 2010
LYON, FRANCE. It's the morning after another night of revelry on the Rolling Stones tour of Europe in 1982. The band and entourage convene ...
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Times, The, September 2012
RIPLEY... EPSOM... WALLINGTON. The names hardly resonate in the way that Clarksdale or Greenville or Natchez do. Yet in their way these Surrey towns are ...
Everybody Must Get Stoned: Andrew Loog Oldham Speaks
Interview by Paul Trynka, Rock's Backpages, December 2012
ANDREW OLDHAM'S two books of memoirs, Stoned and 2Stoned, are not only vital, entertaining works on the genesis and growth of the Rolling Stones; they ...
A Sweet Tooth for the Stones: 'Brown Sugar'
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Sabotage Times, Summer 2012
GOD IT'S TEDIOUS when ancient hacks wax nostalgic about formative pop memories – memories sacred to them but rarely to their readers. So stop reading ...
see also Marianne Faithfull
see also Mick Jagger
see also Brian Jones
see also New Barbarians
see also Andrew Loog Oldham
see also Keith Richards
see also Mick Taylor
see also Charlie Watts
see also Ronnie Wood
see also Bill Wyman
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