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Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood: According to the Rolling Stones

Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Review of Books, 21 December 2003

ONE DAY ABOUT 40 years ago, the Rolling Stones found themselves ogling the Beatles' tour van, regally parked outside Royal Albert Hall. "It was covered in lipstick," recalls drummer Charlie Watts, "and we all thought, 'Blimey, that's what our van should be like!' " Sure enough, in a few short months, the Stones' van would be covered with an equally envy-provoking amount of lipstick.

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