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The Rolling Stones: This Is A Stone Age!!

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express Summer Special, Summer 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 ...

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Mick Jagger (1973)

Interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages audio, 26 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: **

Keith Richards (and Anita Pallenberg) (1979)

Interview by Chris Welch, Rock's Backpages audio, January 1979

Holding court at London's Ritz Hotel – and with frequent interjections from Pallenberg – the Rolling Stones guitarist talks about the band's most recent tour; why he's back in London; being in tax exile; punk and the Pistols; Keith Moon's death; working with Peter Tosh, and reggae and Jamaica in general; the etymology of the terms "Blood Claat"; his Canadian drug bust and being a junkie; writing with Mick Jagger and the Stones' Some Girls; how he and Mick became known as "the Glimmer Twins"; Edith Grove flatmate Jimmy Phelge; Bill Wyman; his various house fires, and... enter son Marlon! (Read the resulting Melody Maker piece "An Outlaw at the Ritz")...

File format: mp3; file size: 82mb, interview length: 1h 25' 24" sound quality: ***

Keith Richards (1985)

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; file size: 69.5mb, interview length: 1h 12' 23" sound quality: **

Keith Richards (1988)

Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, 19 September 1988

Keith opens by criticising Mick Jagger as a solo artist, then goes on to talk about being in the Rolling Stones; talks about the art of rhythm guitar; making the Chuck Berry movie; the great players on his first solo album Talk is Cheap; the Stones' future and how a band can grow old; the recent CD reissues of the group's catalogue; the "fragile monster" that was Brian Jones; their evolution as songwriters; the establishment's hounding of them; his drug use... and being in the public eye.

File format: mp3; file size: 89.3mb, interview length: 1h 33' 04" sound quality: ***½

Mick Taylor (1989)

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)

Ronnie Wood (1992)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, 1992

From the Birds to the Stones, via Jeff Beck and the Faces, rock'n'roll's favourite scarecrow tells the whole story...

File format: mp3 File size: 95.4mb Interview length: 1h 44' 13" Sound quality: ***

Keith Richards (1997)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, April 1997

The Human Riff talks about his solo excursion with the X-Pensive Winos and making Talk is Cheap: sorting out the crack band with Steve Jordan, working with Bootsy and Maceo, and on being a frontman.

File format: mp3; file size: 19.2mb, interview length: 21' sound quality: *

Charlie Watts (1997)

Interview by Robin Eggar, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1997

The beloved Stones drummer talks about marrying — and being kept sane by — Shirley Watts; and about getting into jazz in his London youth; maintaining the separation between the Stones and his home life; keeping horses; his love of Stravinsky, Picasso and Duke Ellington; becoming a drummer; his passion for clothes; touring; his lost drug-and-drink years; grandfatherhood; and recording new Stones album Bridges to Babylon.

File format: mp3; file size: 81.8mb, interview length: 1h 25' 10" sound quality: ***

Keith Richards (1997)

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: ****

Anita Pallenberg (1998)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, Summer 1998

The one-time consort to Keith Richards talks about the place of the women behind the men in rock'n'roll: the blondes the men went and still go for; the lack of equality in the relationships; feelings of uselessness and lack of support systems, and about Marianne Faithfull, Courtney Love and Yoko Ono.

File format: mp3; file size: 17.8mb, interview length: 18' 30" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Keith Richards (2002)

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages audio, 14 August 2002

The Human Riff looks back on a life in rock'n'roll: the people — Allen Klein, Andrew Oldham, Jimmy Miller, Gram Parsons and, of course, his old mucker Mick; on the '60s music business; on starting to write, on riffs and tunings; and on his Toronto bust.

File format: mp3; file size: 106.2mb, interview length: 1h 50' 38" sound quality: ***

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The Rolling Stones: Genuine R&B!

Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 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 ...

Rolling Stones Just Live for Kicks

Interview by June Harris, Disc, 3 August 1963

IF YOU happen to have a load of bricks and mortar lying around, don't be surprised if five young hipsters, sporting ragged haircuts and corduroy ...

Rhythm and Blues

Report by uncredited writer, Pop Star Pictorial, 1964

The latest and greatest on the Beat Scene? — Yes, it's R&B groups like the Rolling Stones ...

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, 2 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, 11 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, The Evening Standard, 21 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 musical ...

Star Beat: Mike Grant Reporting On The Mersey Scene

Report by Mike Grant, Rave, April 1964

A BLONDE hairdresser is said to be very much the apple of Ringo Starr's eye at the moment. She lives and works in Liverpool and ...

The Rolling Stones, Marty Wilde, The Ronettes: No Guitar But Will Travel

Report by Keith Altham, Fabulous, 4 April 1964

— says Fab's Keith on the road with The Rolling Stones... for kicks and pix... ...

The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones (Decca)

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 April 1964

GREAT NEW L-P FROM STONES ...

The Rolling Stones: But would you let your daughter marry one?

Report and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 May 1964

Take A Middle-Class Value, Stand It On Its Head: You've Got A "Stone ...

Should A Pop Star Marry?

Report by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964

Norman Jopling and Peter Jones take a look at the pros and cons of pop star marriages ...

The Rolling Stones: WILD! That's The Way They Live

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Rave, July 1964

HOME? THAT'S ONE PLACE STONES DON'T SEE MUCH ...

Wild! That's How We Like It! says Brian Jones

Interview by uncredited writer, Rave, July 1964

"As the excilement mounts girls surge down to the footlights, their screams swamping our amplifiers..." ...

The Rolling Stones: The Crusaders

Profile by uncredited writer, Rave, August 1964

For years the Rolling Stones have fought, crusaded, for rhythm-and-blues. Now millions have proved they've won their fight. ...

Mr. Oldham Has Second Thoughts About The Stones...

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 8 August 1964

"I'D BE A FOOL TO GIVE UP ALL THAT LOOT" ...

Andrew Loog Oldham: Secrets Of The Stones' Man

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 15 August 1964

The Stones are no longer a challenge... they need no pushing... the Andrew Oldham Orchestra doesn't exist ...

The Rolling Stones: Five by Five (Decca EP)

Review and Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 22 August 1964

'Our EP, the inside story' ...

Four Days in Liverpool For the Stones

Report by Bill Harry, Mersey Beat, 24 September 1964

LAST WEEK the Rolling Stones were in Liverpool for four days. With a show in Liverpool, Chester, Manchester and Wigan. They based themselves at the ...

Wow! It's The Stones On R.S.G.

Report by Vicki Wickham, Fabulous, 3 October 1964

FRIDAY morning — Ready, Steady, Go! day. I'm late again, so take a taxi to work to try to redeem myself. At Television House I say good-morning ...

The Rolling Stones: 'Little Red Rooster'; 'Off The Hook' (Decca F 12014)

Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 7 November 1964

Way-out Sound from Stones ...

TAMI, Electronovision's Latest, Gets N.Y. Showing

Report by uncredited writer, Billboard, 21 November 1964

PRESS, TEENERS GET EYEFUL ...

I Travelled with the Stones

Report by uncredited writer, Fabulous, 28 November 1964

A racing driver, bodyguard, nurse and human alarm clock. Road manager Ian Stewart needed all these qualities while looking after The Rolling Stones in America. "Road ...

The Rolling Stones: 'Little Red Rooster'/'Off The Hook' (Decca)

Review by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1964

TOPSIDE IS an old Willy Dixon number 'Little Red Rooster' and it's a cert for the charts. ...

The Rolling Stones: Overwork Hits Group

Report by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 2 December 1964

LONDON — The Rolling Stones, second most popular group in the world, have been forced to cancel all personal appearances due to complete exhaustion and ...

Pop Music Democratised

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 3 December 1964

Author's note, 2018: Here is my late 1964 insight on the transformation of British pop into rock which can be dated to 21 February 1963 ...

James Brown: The Stones Can't Stop Talking About King James

Interview by Guy Stevens, Record Mirror, 19 December 1964

EVERY NOW and then, a rhythm and blues artist in America breaks through the confines of his own field of music and becomes a giant ...

Why I Want To Be A Writer — By Charlie Watts

Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc, 26 December 1964

talking to PENNY VALENTINE ...

From Pop Singers To Rock Bands

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 1965

Update, March 2019: I KNOW exactly when I wrote the piece below, where I was, and why I withdrew it from publication. It was January ...

Other Stars View The Stones

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, January 1965

THOSE ROLLING STONES, with their headline-hogging activities have always been controversial. There are more Stone-knockers than door-knockers in some of the snootier parts of the ...

The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones No. 2

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 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 ...

Death of a Dynasty

Comment by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 30 January 1965

Norman Jopling takes a hard, cynical look at the declining beat boom and makes some frank comments ...

Rolling With The Blarney Stones!

Report by Dawn James, Rave, March 1965

The sign said to Ireland. That's where we were going. So were the Stones. They were going on tour over there. We were going to ...

Startling Stones Discovery!

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 12 March 1965

I DISCOVERED the secret of the Stones act last weekend at the Edmonton Regal. It is — THEY DON'T HAVE ONE! ...

The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Dave Berry, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, The Checkmates: Regal Theatre, Edmonton, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 12 March 1965

FOUR NEW TUNES IN THE ACT ...

The Rolling Stones: Regal Theatre, Edmonton, London

Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 13 March 1965

STONES FIRST NIGHT — AN EAR-SHATTERING SUCCESS! ...

Reigning Cats And Dogs

Report and Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 27 March 1965

Switched on people are definitely animal lovers, and dogs and cats top the pop stars own hit parade... SYLVIA STEPHEN has done some vetting on the subject. For ...

Mick Jagger: The Very Private Boy Behind The Public Idol

Interview by Dawn James, Rave, April 1965

— an intimate, perhaps first-time-ever look at Mick Jagger, Stone Extraordinary. Another personal bird's-eye view by Dawn James ...

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al: NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 16 April 1965

IT WAS THE GREATEST POP SHOW ON EARTH ...

The No.1 Boys

Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 15 May 1965

Who are the girls in the lives of the chart topping boys? Who are the girls who know them, who have encouraged them, who have ...

Stars Come Out At Night On The Scene

Report by Vicki Wickham, Fabulous, 22 May 1965

THE MUSIC has stopped. The stage lights are dimmed. The screaming fans have gone home. What happens to the pop stars when it's all over ...

The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Paul Revere & The Raiders: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 2 June 1965

STONES SHOW WAS REALLY A ROCKER ...

The Rolling Stones: We Want The Stones (Decca EP)

Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 5 June 1965

STONES EP – EXCITING & DIFFERENT ...

Stones and Manfreds: Jones Boys Talk About Chart-Making EPs

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 18 June 1965

FOR THE first time two EPs have crashed into the NME Chart simultaneously. They are the Rolling Stones' 'Got Live If You Want It' and the Manfreds' ...

The Truth About the Pop Idles...

Report by Dawn James, Rave, July 1965

What is the truth about our stars of pop? How hard do they really work for the fabulous rewards that pop success brings? Are they ...

When Everlys joined Stones

Report by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 2 July 1965

I SUPPOSE you could have called the act the Rolling Everlys — or the Stones Brother! But whatever the name, there's no mistaking the terrific ...

A Touch of Magic

Comment by Dawn James, Rave, August 1965

WARMTH, TINGLE, love. Eyes that penetrate to the farthest seats in the theatre. Magnetism by a fragile body. A person, just like any other, only ...

If The Singers Left... (what would happen to the groups?)

Overview by Dawn James, uncredited writer, Rave, August 1965

THERE ARE ALWAYS A LOT OF RUMOURS BUZZING ROUND THE POP SCENE THAT CERTAIN MEMBERS OF A GROUP ARE THINKING ABOUT LEAVING. THIS STORY DOESN'T ...

The Rolling Stones: The Stones Hit Back

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 6 August 1965

I WENT to see the big, bad Rolling Stones during their first-ever performance at the London Palladium last Sunday. ...

The Rolling Stones, The Moody Blues, Steampacket et al: Palladium, London

Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 7 August 1965

Jagger drowned in a sea of noise ...

The Rolling Stones: Out Of Our Heads (Decca)

Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 August 1965

The Moodies talk about the Stones ...

Now They're World-Wide Stones

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 3 September 1965

THE NEWS OF the big Stones shake-up broke in the Ready, Steady, Go! canteen last Friday evening as Bill Wyman and I sat chatting about ...

The Animals, The Rolling Stones: English Artists Find 'Soul' Music Is More Than Skin Deep

Report and Interview by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 4 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. ...

Why Do Hotels Ban Pop Stars?

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Disc Weekly, 4 September 1965

WHY DO pop stars get banned from hotels? ...

Stones Take Over!

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 10 September 1965

ON THE TV monitor was Andrew Oldham, clad in bobcat waistcoat, miming to Cher's voice singing "I don't care if your hair's too long" and ...

Eskimo Boots: The Stars And Kooky Garb: Do Clothes Make The Man?

Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 11 September 1965

DO CLOTHES really make the man? Are they that important? Or are they merely for decoration? ...

The Rolling Stones: When Irish Fans Are Punching

Report by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 11 September 1965

ALAN WALSH, MM MAN-ON-THE-SPOT, REPORTS THE STONES' IRISH TOUR ...

Rolling Stones Tour: WILD! that's the scene for the next four weeks, says MICK JAGGER

Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 24 September 1965

IN THE SPACE of four weeks 100,000 people will sit, and stand, and scream. More than 90,000 ice-creams and hysteria-cooling drinks will be sold. Hot, ...

The Rolling Stones: Out Of Our Heads (Decca)

Review by uncredited writer, Music Echo, 25 September 1965

Stones' smash hit album out this week ...

We Go To The Rolling Stones' Secret Record Date

Report by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 2 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, New Musical Express, 29 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 ...

Top Tunes: The Rolling Stones

Report by Ronnie Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 20 November 1965

THE BATTLE of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway ended in a tie last Saturday. ...

Chris Jagger Tells You What The Real Brian Jones Is Like

Interview by uncredited writer, 16 Magazine, December 1965

A THUMBNAIL SKETCH Of CHRIS JAGGER CHRIS JAGGER was born on December 19, 1947. He attends Eltham College, near Dartford, Kent, where he is studying for his ...

Nice Things About The Stones

Profile by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, December 1965

WE WANTED to bring you the latest information on the Stones and we wanted to call our feature "Nice Things About The Stones". RAVE girl ...

The Rolling Stones: World-wide Stones

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express Annual, December 1965

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: The Girls Waited 8 Hours, Finally Met the Stones!

Report by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 3 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 ...

Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg: A Love Story About A Stone

Report by uncredited writer, Rave, February 1966

ROLLING STONE Brian Jones is thinking about getting married. He said so in a recent interview. But, until a few weeks ago, no girl had ...

Stones Report: "We've put a keyboard on every new track"

Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, February 1966

DECEMBER saw the end of a hectic tour, there were no more one-nighters to do. But it wasn't the end of the Stones' work Stateside ...

Mick Jagger — Bad Joke Into Social Lion

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 February 1966

MAUREEN CLEAVE talks to the voice of the Stones ...

Mick Jagger: Bad Joke into Social Lion

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 4 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, New Musical Express, 11 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: Brian Wants To Swap His Rolls For A Mini!

Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 12 February 1966

A SHRILL whistle cut down a Chelsea mews and Brian Jones appeared at the door of his house. I parked my Volkswagen next to his ...

The Rolling Stones: Have your personalities changed much in the three years you've been pop stars? 'YES'

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 12 February 1966

...BUT IT'S hard to say how much has been caused by the pop life and how much by the fact that we are three years ...

Citysongs

Essay by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1966

ROCK 'N' ROLL songs, according to a joke now about ten years old, have three types of lyrics: a) I love my baby, b) my ...

Rolling Stones Have Reached Peak At Home

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 25 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 ...

The New Thing and the Blue Thing: An Interview with Keith Richards and John Sebastian

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1966

BY NOW, EVERYONE must be aware that records just don't sound like they did 10 years ago — 3 years ago in fact. ...

This must be, at least, our 19th Breakdown on the Stones

Profile and Interview by Mike Grant, Dawn James, Rave, April 1966

Seems no matter how hard we try, we just can't give you enough information on the Stones. So, for what must be the umpteenth time, ...

In Paris with the Rolling Stones

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 1 April 1966

Keith Altham finds there's never a dull moment! ...

The Rolling Stones: Olympia, Paris

Live Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 1 April 1966

IN PARIS Keith Altham (flying as Keith Richard!) reports BILL STOPS BOMB EXPLOSION! ...

The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (Decca)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 8 April 1966

NMExclusive track by track review of STONES NEW LP ...

One Day On The Beat

Report by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 9 April 1966

SO YOU'D like to be a BEAT reporter, huh? So you think we lead an interesting exciting life full of nothing but fun and games ...

Exclusive: BEAT Attends Closed Stones' Session

Report by Eden, KRLA Beat, 16 April 1966

ED. NOTE: Once again The BEAT has captured an exclusive story, as we spent three days with the Stones on their recent visit to Hollywood. ...

The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (Decca)

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 16 April 1966

SPANKING NEW fourteen-track Rolling Stones LP. Undoubtedly this is the best they have made and should be their biggest British seller to date. ...

The Rolling Stones: Aftermath (Decca)

Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 16 April 1966

The smash LP of the year? ...

Brian Jones: Pop Think-in

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966

CHELTENHAM: A place of many memories. But it's a drag. ...

Oldham: Stones man digs into avant garde

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966

ROLLING STONES manager Andrew Oldham has moved into the jazz scene — the British avant garde jazz scene to boot! He plans to release an ...

All About The World's Greatest Pop Show: 1966 NME Concert Mightiest Ever!

Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 May 1966

THOUSANDS upon thousands of fans converging on the massive Wembley Empire Pool for the biggest pop show in the world on Sunday... the staggering, the ...

Stones Single — Your verdict

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 14 May 1966

FRIDAY THE thirteenth of May — tomorrow — will be a red-letter day for Stones fans. It's the release date of the new Stones single ...

The Rolling Stones, Percy Sledge et al: The Week's New Singles

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 14 May 1966

Plenty of tips, including a new Stones. Many follow-ups which aren't marvellous, and some outsiders, including Percy Sledge and Jimmy James and the Vagabonds ...

Stoned Again! That was the fate of Keith Altham when he interviewed Mick Jagger & Keith Richard

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 May 1966

Mick Will Be Ernie In New Film ...

Keith Richard: The Ignored Stone

Profile by Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 28 May 1966

WHY IS IT Keith Richard is the Stone who receives the least amount of publicity or fanfare? ...

The Jagger: "It's All Right Here In America"

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 11 June 1966

MANY TRY to describe, categorize and analyze the five Rolling Stones, Most fail. Partly because they don't really know the Stones and are only going ...

The Rolling Stones: Forest Hills Stadium, Queens NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 4 July 1966

5 ROLLING STONES GATHER AVID FANS Middling Turnout Fails to Dull Teen-Age Excitement ...

Pop Eye: The Rolling Stones

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 7 July 1966

THE JET landed amid a churning blast of mechanical thunder. The portable staircase was fixed in place. The stewardess and health officials departed. Finally, the ...

Albums by the Mothers of Invention, Rolling Stones et al

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1966

POPULAR RECORDS: PASS ASPIRIN, PLEASE ...

Stones Really Nice Guys

Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 1966

They Just Hate Stupidity ...

The Rolling Stones: Jagger Phones From America

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 22 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. ...

Beatle Fans Defecting To Stone-Side Of Fence?

Report by Eden, KRLA Beat, 30 July 1966

WE BUILD THEM UP — we idolize them — we lay the physical manifestations of adulation, worship, and success at their feet. ...

Brian Jones: The Case of the Disappearing Image

Profile by Dawn James, Rave, August 1966

Weird, long-haired, almost mythical — Brian Jones was once the most talked-of and popular Stone. He enjoyed playing the great lover, mingling in London's popland, ...

Rolling Stone Oldham: Talented, Insulting, Outrageous

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 5 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: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 5 August 1966

Stones a hit at Bowl ...

The Rolling Stones: Stones Reveal Secrets

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 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: A Great Face Job!

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 24 September 1966

That well respected song-writing team of Jagger and Richard take time out to look back over their shoulders into the Stones' past and compare it ...

The Stones Roll Out Again — And It's The Wildest Tour Ever To Hit Britain

Report by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 1 October 1966

MM MAN-ON-TOUR with the Rolling Stones and Ike and Tina Turner, ALAN WALSH ...

The Rolling Stones/Ike & Tina Turner: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Miles, International Times, 14 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: New Pop Generation's Revolution Is At Hand

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 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: Come Into Brian Jones' New Hideaway!

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 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. ...

The Rolling Stones: 'That's Tough, Mom'

Interview by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 22 October 1966

KEITH RICHARD and Mick Jagger relaxed in the London hotel suite which their manager Andrew Loog Oldham was using as a temporary office and tossed ...

The Rolling Stones

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.... ...

RSG RIP: Another pop show bites the dust!

Report by Vicki Wickham, uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 19 November 1966

Ready, Steady Go! Editor Vicki Wickham reviews highlights of the TV aeries that ends on December 23 ...

The Rolling Stones: Stones On The Move

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express Annual, December 1966

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: 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: Jagger and The Shape Of Things To Come

Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967

HOW DO YOU foresee the progress of the Stones in 1967? ...

Blind Date: Paul Jones

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 14 January 1967

NOW IT'S psychedelic Blind Date. At least, that's what Paul Jones' session in the hot seat seemed like at the time. First of all, the ...

New Singles from the Rolling Stones, Four Tops et al

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 14 January 1967

GOODIES THIS WEEK INCLUDE A MUCH-BETTER ROLLING STONES, SIMILAR, BUT DISTINCTIVE SOUND FROM TOPS, AND A PLAINTIVE PAUL JONES, NOT-SO INSTANT VAUDEVILLE BAND, AND A ...

New Singles from the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding et al

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 14 January 1967

Stones old firm back in strength ...

The Rolling Stones: Between The Buttons (Decca)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 January 1967

The STONES' LATEST ALBUM, reviewed track-by-track by Keith Altham with special comments by Mick Jagger ...

Blind Date: Dave Dee

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 January 1967

PAUL JONES: 'I've Been A Bad Bad Boy' (HMV). Sounds a bit like Paul Jones. Great — I like this one. I like that 'bad, ...

The Rolling Stones: Between The Buttons (Decca)

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 January 1967

FUN, EXCITEMENT, great ballads, and the full unveiling of Mick Jagger's voice after being cloaked in some secrecy for several years are among the rewards ...

Pop Eye: Singles

Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 26 January 1967

YOU KNOW something's fishy when you see that elastic grin on Brian Jones's face for the record jacket The title above tells all: 'Let's Spend ...

The Rolling Stones: Between The Buttons (Decca)

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 28 January 1967

'Yesterday's Papers'; 'My Obsession'; 'Back Street Girl'; 'Connection'; 'Cool, Calm and Collected'; 'All Sold Out'; 'Please Go Home'; 'Who's Been Sleeping Here?'; 'Complicated'; 'Miss Amanda ...

The Rolling Stones: Jagger Scorns Critics

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 28 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: Between the Buttons (London)

Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 31 January 1967

Stones' Latest LP Is a Smasher ...

The Pop Think-In: Charlie Watts

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 4 February 1967

Charlie Watts has been called "The Silent Stone", who prefers to sit about looking rather mournful and unwilling to communicate. In fact, Charlie has a ...

The Rolling Stones: Our Fans Have Moved On With Us

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 February 1967

LET US consider that unique phenomenon – the Rolling Stones' public image! ...

Sex, Stones & Sullivan

Comment by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 11 February 1967

"I'M NOT superstitious" remarked Mick Jagger at London Airport on Friday January 13. And to prove his point he marched jauntily beneath a couple of ...

Mick Sheds Chrissie For Faithfull

Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 25 February 1967

EVER SINCE he confirmed publically that he was no longer dating Chrissie Shrimpton it has been fairly common knowledge in London that MICK JAGGER spends ...

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 ...

This Is Where It's At

Column by Mike Grant, Rave, March 1967

RAVE man Mike Grant is here again with more gossip on your favourite stars! ...

The Psychedelic Yenta Strikes Again!

Report by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 March 1967

THE LOVIN' Spoonful may soon find their names anathema to the very underground which nurtured them. ...

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, 8 April 1967

HALFWAY through their Continental tour last week the Rolling Stones were experiencing scenes of fantastic fan fervour, riots and galloping policemen. ...

The Rolling Stones: Got Live If You Want It! (London); The Doors: The Doors (Elektra)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, May 1967

BOLTS OF LIGHTNING ...

Pop Concerts — Essential or Obsolete in '68?

Report by Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 20 May 1967

THE BEATLES have decided that it is no longer possible for them to gain anything other than dollars galore from putting on concert performances. ...

The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons (London PS499)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967

ONE OF the essentials in any record review would seem to be a simple catchword or two describing the contents of the album in question. ...

The Worshippers

Interview by Dawn James, Rave, June 1967

Fans make success for a pop star — more than money, more than influence, more than talent. But what are fans? Why do they remain ...

Pop In The Police State

Comment by Mick Farren, International Times, 2 June 1967

"People try to put us down just because we get around."The Who – 'My Generation' ...

The Jefferson Airplane Here

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 1967

"WE JUST played and let the music take us instead of us taking the music," said Marty Balin, lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane, talking ...

Monterey Pop Festival: Brian Jones

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

BEAT: Can you comment about what's happening this weekend in Monterey? ...

The fearful treatment and unfair torture of the Rolling Stones

Comment by Derek Taylor, Disc and Music Echo, 15 July 1967

Our man in America Derek Taylor, Hollywood, Tuesday ...

The Rolling Stones drugs bust: Time Is On Our Side

Report by uncredited writer, International Times, 28 July 1967

THE SUN isn't known to have two faces, only the moon, but in England we have the lunatic Sun (a newspaper it thinks) with as ...

Rolling Stones: Interviews with Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 12 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: 'We Love You'

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 12 August 1967

MICK JAGGER gave me the preview of the new Stones single, 'We Love You'/'Dandelion' last Friday in manager Andrew Oldham's office and looked enquiringly across ...

New Singles from the Stones, Monkees, Jimi Hendrix et al

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967

STONES — CONSIDERABLY TOO MUCH ...

Aftermath: Mick Jagger Answers Some Questions

Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 26 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 happy ...

The Rolling Stones: Mick Decides To Play It Cool

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 26 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 ...

Rolling Stones Starting To Mellow

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 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 ...

Mick Jagger

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 ...

Mick Jagger: Me, Myself and I

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, New Musical Express, 2 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: Their Satanic Majesties Request (London)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1967

Can't Tell an Album by Its Cover ...

The Rolling Stones: The Banned Stones Cover

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 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 Stone Charlie Watts Takes Over Mansion of First Archbishop of Canterbury!

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 January 1968

A ROLLING STONE, having rolled, has come to rest in a magnificent, centuries old manor house, just outside Lewes in Sussex, which was reputedly used ...

The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (London)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968

THEIR SATANIC Majesties Request succeeds by taking enormous chances. One's first impressions' are almost entirely negative: (1) it doesn't sound like the Stones; (2) it ...

Stones Are On The Rampage Once More

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 March 1968

NME's Keith Altham finds to his cost! ...

Platter Chatter: Albums from The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Cream and Kaleidoscope

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, April 1968

BEACON FROM MARS/THE KALEIDOSCOPE — Here is the most versatile band we have ever heard. You want ragtime? Listen to 'Baldheaded End OfA Broom' which ...

Street Fighting Stone: Mick Jagger Talks

Interview by Miles, International Times, 17 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: 'Jumping Jack Flash' (Decca)

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 25 May 1968

Yes! Yes! Stones flash back with a No.1 ...

Your Guide to the Week's New Singles: The Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Cream et al

Review by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 25 May 1968

THE ROLLING STONES: 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'; 'Child Of The Moon' (Decca F 12 782). Back to their famous rhythm and blues oriented sound here from the ...

The Stones In-Session

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 1 June 1968

OUTSIDE THE recording studio there were two little teeny-boppers from a by-gone age, sheltering from the rain in a shop doorway in the hope of ...

UFOs Are Landing In My Garden Says Keith Richard

Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 15 June 1968

KEITH RICHARD, Rolling Stones guitarist and co-writer of songs with Mick Jagger, believes that he lives on a UFO landing site. ...

Stones Set Studio On Fire!

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 June 1968

First film gets off to a blazing start ...

The Rolling Stones: Will Charlie Watts Wake Up The World?

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 June 1968

BEACH BOYS, Beatles and Donovan chased round the world after the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in search of spiritual peace. ...

Peter Townshend of the Who 
talks about Mick Jagger 
and the Rolling Stones!

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, July 1968

PART FOUR of this interview needs even less introduction than did Part Three. You all know Peter Townshend of the Who. Here, he talks with ...

The Stones are Rolling Again!

Interview by uncredited writer, Rave, July 1968

Flash, bang, wallop! Now that the Stones are back on the scene, is excitement at long last returning to pop? ...

Exclusive To RAVE, A Report On The Filming Of The Rolling Stones' First Film, One Plus One

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Rave, August 1968

IT'S BEEN THREE long years since the Rolling Stones first announced their intention to become film stars. ...

The Banned Stones' LP Cover...

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968

Mick Jagger protests against 'Dylan offensive' charge ...

Our Live Shows More Subversive Than 'Street Fightin' Man'! admits Keith Richard

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 September 1968

Part two of the Jagger-fights-on story. ...

The Rolling Stones: Oh, What? Own Up! Just Groove!

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 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! ...

20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested

Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968

25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...

I Miss Mick's Bath Scene

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 November 1968

...moans KEITH ALTHAM but catches up with Jagger later ...

One Plus One (Dir. Jean Luc Godard)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 November 1968

COMING NOT-too-shortly, I hope (the official London premiere is at the National Film Theatre on November 25) — the Rolling Stones in One Plus One ...

The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (Decca)

Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 November 1968

I KEEP changing my mind about Beggars Banquet which is the Rolling Stones new album in the sleeve which has now been passed fit for ...

The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (Decca)

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 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: Beggars' Banquet (Decca)

Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 30 November 1968

'Sympathy For The Devil'; 'No Expectations'; 'Dear Doctor'; 'Parachute Woman'; 'Jig-Saw Puzzle'; 'Street Fighting Man'; 'Prodigal Son'; 'Stray Cat Blues'; 'Factory Girl'; 'Salt Of The Earth' ...

Rolling Stones: Year Of The Stones' New Heart

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express Annual, December 1968

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Beggars' Banquet (Decca SKL 4955)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 10 December 1968

The Stones' carrier wave ...

Stones Pie Brawl!

Report by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 14 December 1968

R.M.'S LON GODDARD was there... ...

The Rolling Stones: How I Survived Beggar's Banquet

Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 December 1968

THAT custard pies would one day be hurled by the Rolling Stones at the gentlemen of the press was fairly inevitable. ...

Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth

Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus

Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 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 ...

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 Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969

AS JUST about everybody knows, there is a widespread back-to-the-basics movement going on right now in today's rock scene. Translated into records, this means that ...

The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (London PS 539)

Review by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 17 February 1969

THE ROLLING Stones are at the artistic peak of their career: Beggars Banquet is perhaps their finest work to date. It is not merely, as ...

Jagger In 3-D (part 1): The First Dimension – The Present

Interview by Keith Altham, Melody Maker, 15 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, 22 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 ...

Rolling Stone Magazine: Ripples from the Stone

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 25 March 1969

FEW REVIEWS can make a first-rank artist doubt his ability at the height of his success. At this level, critics can rarely do more than ...

Jagger In 3-D (part 3): Third Dimension — The Future

Interview by Keith Altham, Melody Maker, 29 March 1969

"BUT HE can't go an being a Rolling Stone for ever, can he?" asked Joe Public spitefully. ...

Mick Jagger Talks To NME About The New Stone, The Ex Stone, And Two Albums

Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 June 1969

"WE'D KNOWN for a few months that Brian wasn't keen; he wasn't enjoying himself and it got to the stage where we had to sit ...

Mick Taylor: The Other Mick...

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 21 June 1969

MICK TAYLOR, 20-year-old ex-Bluesbreaker from Welwyn, and for just over a week the new guitarist with the group that first brought rebellion to pop. ...

The Rolling Stones: "I Still Can't Believe What's Happening," says Mick

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 21 June 1969

IF YOU WERE free to choose your position in pop today; if you had your choice of any groups... "I'd choose The Rolling Stones anyway," ...

The Rolling Stones: The Stones Roll Again

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 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, 4 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, Plastic Ono Band et al: New Singles

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969

ROLLING STONES: 'Honky Tonk Women'/'You Can't Always Get What You Want' (Decca). An important single for the Stones, but a disappointment for us . ...

The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park: Out of the Way

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 10 July 1969

A world turned upside down ...

The Rolling Stones, King Crimson, Family: Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 10 July 1969

2018 author's introduction:  This was the third rock concert filmed by Granada Television for the UK national network in 1968 and 1969, the first two ...

Brian Jones — The Musician

Obituary by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 12 July 1969

THE DRUGS, THE GIRLS, THE HANG-UPS ARE SUPERFLUOUS TO THIS OBITUARY. LET US REMEMBER HIM FOR WHAT HE WAS... ...

Brian, the Stone in the Headlines

Obituary by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 12 July 1969

BRIAN JONES is dead — and his death in the swimming pool of his Sussex home last week was as dramatic as his last five ...

The Rolling Stones et al: Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 July 1969

CHRIS WELCH SAYS: 'Somehow the magic worked' ...

The Rolling Stones: Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 12 July 1969

the good, the bad & the ugly... ...

One Plus One (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 19 July 1969

SYMPATHY For The Devil, re-titled One Plus One, is the Jean-Luc Godard film which features the Stones as they were before Brian's death — enough ...

One Plus One aka Sympathy for the Devil (Dir. Jean Luc Godard)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 19 July 1969

Stones Long Awaited Film Retitled Sympathy For The Devil. R.M.'s Lon Goddard Gets Special Preview... ...

Keith Richard: "Acting Is For Mick, Not Me!"

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969

THE SILENT one speaks. In these times, words from Keith Richard are as rare as cobras in Essex, but the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist, who ...

The Rolling Stones: Free Concerts — The Aftermath

Report by Mark Williams, uncredited writer, International Times, 1 August 1969

FREE CONCERTS constitute a threat to the established promotional ethos. An opportunity for music to be played without the encroachments of contractual stipulations, of advertising ...

Obituary: Brian Jones

Obituary by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 9 August 1969

Not just a guitarist for the Rolling Stones, but an embodiment of the music itself. ...

After two months as a full time Stone, Mick Taylor says "I understand the whole thing now"

Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, September 1969

MICK TAYLOR might look like a Rolling Stone — long hair, floppy satin shirt, etc., and play like a Rolling Stone, but on meeting him ...

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, The Guardian, 14 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: Live Concerts Are Like Going To The Pictures Says Charlie!

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 25 October 1969

"THE STONES have been lucky — or clever in that we have done some records that have lasted longer than a week," said Charlie. ...

The Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina Turner, B.B. King: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 10 November 1969

Rolling Stones End With an Uproar ...

Mick Taylor Interviewed

Interview by Tony Norman, Fusion, 14 November 1969

MICK TAYLOR is 20 years old and has been gifted with the ability to play fine guitar. His pale, young face is framed by a ...

The Rolling Stones...

Report by Wayne Robins, The Berkeley Barb, 14 November 1969

... at Oakland Coliseum, November 9, 1969. Featuring Ike & Tina Turner, B.B. King, Terry Reid, with a special appearance by Bill Graham. Written November ...

The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (London)

Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 November 1969

Stones Make a Softer Sound With a Strong Hint of Dylan ...

Keith Richards

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969

THE NEWS that the Rolling Stones are to resume personal appearances is likely to gladden hearts everywhere. The Stones always were the most important performing ...

The Rolling Stones, B.B. King, the Ike & Tina Turner Soul Review: Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 15 November 1969

Youth Power at Stones show ...

The Rolling Stones/B.B. King: Oakland Coliseum, California

Live Review by Tom Donahue, Cash Box, 22 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: Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 22 November 1969

Stones terrific ...

Rolling Stones, B.B. King, Terry Reid: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI

Live Review by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 26 November 1969

Rock's Rolling Stones Invade Olympia Stadium ...

The Rolling Stones: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 28 November 1969

The Rolling Stones Are Still ExcitingMadness of the Beatles Brought Here Again ...

Jagger in America

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 29 November 1969

ALL'S WELL with the Stones and Mick Jagger is at peace with the world. They have returned to tour America after three years and says ...

Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (Decca mono and stereo SKL/LK 5025; 37s 6d, Released December 5)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 29 November 1969

GREAT STONES ALBUM! Declares RICHARD GREEN ...

The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (Decca Stereo)

Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 29 November 1969

LET IT BLEED, or let it rip they did. From the first track it is apparent that production scale on the latest Stones LP has ...

Rolling Stones: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI

Live Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, December 1969

YES, INDEED-dop-diddly-do the Rollfucking Stones — high energy superjamsters who played in my own home town at our very own ice hockey rink November 24th ...

Still Hope for the Stones

Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 3 December 1969

THE ROLLING Stones are still hoping to perform in a gigantic free show in the San Francisco area on Saturday afternoon. ...

The Rolling Stones: Olympia Stadium, Detroit MI

Live Review by uncredited writer, Ann Arbor Argus, 4 December 1969

SO MICK Jagger, by all accounts a rather bad mothuhfuckuh, came home. Grotesque, lewd, and deranged. Satisfying. ...

Keith Richard on Mick, Beatles, Led, Faith, Tull, Gees

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 6 December 1969

THE NEWS that the Rolling Stones have resumed personal appearances must have gladdened the hearts of pop fans everywhere. The Stones always were the most ...

Stones Free Gig In US.

Report by Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 6 December 1969

NEW YORK — Into the Rainbow Grill, home of the smart set, wining and dining 65 floors above Manhattan, trooped the Rolling Stones for their ...

Altamont: 300,000 Jam Rock Festival Near S.F.

Report by uncredited writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1969

Youth Stabbed to Death; Cars Tied Up for Miles ...

What To Call Altamont?

Report by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 12 December 1969

AS IF IT were an ancient pilgrimage to Jerusalem they relentlessly pressed on in the cold grey morning to Altamont Speedway. The sheer numbers were ...

The Rolling Stones: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 13 December 1969

Stones Gather $286G Moss ...

"Mert" Hunter, The Kid They Killed at Altamont

Interview by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 19 December 1969

THIS IS THE story of the kid they killed at Altamont. ...

The Rolling Stones, Mighty Baby, Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets: Saville Theatre, London

Live Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 20 December 1969

TO REFUTE some of the idiotic ravings of national press reviewers, the Rolling Stones had no trouble stirring up the atmosphere at London's Saville Theatre ...

The Age Of Aquarius

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Partisan Review, Spring 1969

Update, 2020: Here is how I came to write the essay below on the Beatles and the Stones for the US intellectual quarterly Partisan Review ...

The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (Decca)

Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 28 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: "After about five numbers there seemed to be fights everywhere. I was numbed"

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 31 January 1970

MICK TAYLOR ON THE STONES BLOODBATH ...

Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed (London NPS4)

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, February 1970

THERE'S NOTHING mysterious about the new Stones album and that's as it should be. Like the Stones themselves, it's all right there, readily accessible to ...

Sly Stone: Stone Too Sick to Rock

Report by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 24 February 1970

Refunds Available ...

The Rolling Stones — A Play in the Apocalypse

Special Feature by Michael Lydon, Ramparts, March 1970

There's no business like show business, Like no business I know; Everything about it is appealing, Everything the traffic will allow. — ...

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Report by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1970

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was an entertainment extravaganza planned and put on by the Rolling Stones in December 1968. Originally done as ...

King Hash Is Sure To Come

Report and Interview by Sheila Weller, Rolling Stone, 14 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 ...

Merry Clayton: She Was Born on Christmas Day

Interview by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 25 June 1970

LOS ANGELES — There is a world of confusion in the music press — not to mention that among record companies — about the identity ...

The Rolling Stones: Get Your Ya-Yas Out

Preview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 18 July 1970

Live Stones album — MM exclusive preview ...

The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (Decca Stereo SKL 5065)

Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 5 September 1970

MICK AND THE BURST BUTTON ...

Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (Dacca) ****

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 September 1970

Stones give new vitality to some old numbers ...

Alexis Korner Couldn't Afford Jagger As Radio Vocalist So Mick Started Stones!

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 2 October 1970

Blues pioneer thinks Union out of date ...

Stones and the Street Fighting Men

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, Melody Maker, 3 October 1970

Update, 2019. The Rolling Stones were never just entertainers. They are the world's leading creators and performers of Dionysian rock theatre. They are flamboyant, perverse, ...

Mick Taylor: A Year As A Stone

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Sounds, 10 October 1970

HATFIELD, Hertfordshire, is a long way from Altamont, California, and the Rolling Stones are a big step from John Mayall but Mick Taylor has made ...

Rolling Stones and a Rocky Night in Paris

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1970

PARIS — "Funny," said Philippe Paringaux (chief writer for Rock 'n' Folk), "how English freaks refer to pop festivals in Britain as psychedelic concentration camps." ...

The Rolling Stones: This Could Be The Last Time

Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 13 March 1971

AS STONES BEGIN THEIR LONG-AWAITED — AND POSSIBLY FINAL — TOUR OF BRITAIN, MICHAEL WATTS REPORTS... ...

The Rolling Stones: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 20 March 1971

MICK'S SO CHIC.. ...

The Rolling Stones: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 20 March 1971

THE ROLLING STONES Circus came to town last Sunday, maybe for the last time. At least for their own sakes it should be. The fire ...

Nicky Hopkins: Have Piano, Will Travel

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 3 April 1971

Michael Watts talks to sessionman supreme NICKY HOPKINS ...

Goodbye Great Britain: The Rolling Stones On Tour

Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 15 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 ...

Rolling Stones: 'Brown Sugar'/'Bitch'/'Let It Rock' (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 17 April 1971

IF ANYONE had been led to believe by the rumours feverishly circulating in the past couple of months that the Rolling Stones were about to ...

The Rolling Stones: 'Brown Sugar'; 'Bitch'; 'Let It Rock' (Rolling Stones Records RS 19100)

Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 17 April 1971

SUPERB ROCK and roll again from the best exponent of the stuff going. Great value with the three tracks on this maxi-single, beginning with the ...

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (COC 5910O)

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 23 April 1971

Sticky fingers gather no moss ...

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Kinney)

Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971

Bands come and go – but the Stones keep rollin' on ...

The Rolling Stones: Stones In Exile

Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 24 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, 1 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: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1971

Getting Lots of Satisfaction From Mick, Stones ...

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records COC 59100)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, The Rag, 3 May 1971

IN KEEPING with our Rag policy of bringing the hottest platters straight to you, kats and kittens, so's you can be up on the newest ...

The Rolling Stones: Bobby Keys

Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 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 (Atco COC 59100)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Columbia Daily Spectator, 12 May 1971

Sticky Fingers: Have the Rolling Stones Peaked? ...

The Rolling Stones: No Dead Flowers

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Fusion, 14 May 1971

For all their irrelevance to politics, ecology and third-world revolution, they continue to be a special kind of fun. ...

The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (Dir: Albert and David Maysles, Cinema V)

Film/DVD/TV Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 31 July 1971

STONES' FILM TERROR ...

The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richards

Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 19 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Gypsy Band

Press Release by Derek Taylor, Creem, October 1971

Press Release Issued in England with Sticky Fingers ...

Rocking Chair: Working Out

Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 10 December 1971

I HAVE been writing about music for years, and am now trying to play myself. This changes matters. ...

The Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks

Review by Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone, 17 February 1972

IT WOULD be nice to be able to call it something like The Rolling Stones' Golden Decade, for the Stones have been the most enduringly ...

The Producers: Glyn Johns — Why I'm working on Paul's album

Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 26 February 1972

"IT'S ALL BULL. Having offices and secretaries and all the moodies and the phones. It's just crap. It's nothing to do with making records. Making ...

The Stones in LA: Main St. Exiles

Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 27 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 ...

Eight Stone Exiles

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 29 April 1972

IT COULD TAKE the Rolling Stones' new double-album Exile On Main Street, says NME's ROY CARR, to awaken those members of the rock nation so ...

The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 29 April 1972

And here, a track by track of the upcoming Exile On Main Street set three weeks before release ...

Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, 12 May 1972

WELL, THEY started off as the original Richmond rough-house rock band and progressed through all the trends and bends and drug numbers and delicious outrage ...

Stones Special

Interview by Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 May 1972

MICK JAGGER talks to Michael Watts... and MICK TAYLOR talks to Chris Welch ...

The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street (Rolling Stones Records, COC 2-900)

Review and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 20 May 1972

MICK JAGGER on record ...

The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 25 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 ...

Jagger: Solo Without Splitting

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972

JUST LIKE the thrill-seekers who attend a bullfight in the hope of seeing the handsome matador gored or the daring young man on the flying ...

The Rolling Stones' 1972 US Tour: Winterland, San Francisco

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, June 1972

The Rolling Stones. The last boogie 2019 Update: IN MY sixth year of regular rock writing, I was given a great boost by Jo Bergman ...

Going into Exile — Producer Jimmy Miller talks about the Stones' new album

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 3 June 1972

The degree of enjoyment is the only yardstick to use ...

Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder: Winterland, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 7 June 1972

Rolling, Rocking Stones Gather No Moss ...

Stones Producer Jimmy Miller Part Two: The tracks I like best

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972

In this final part of his interview with Ritchie Yorke, Miller talks about the many artists he has recorded, and in particular about tracks which ...

The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St.

Review by Greg Shaw, Los Angeles Free Press, 16 June 1972

Cruisin' through rock country ...

Andrew Loog Oldham: Behind the Shades — The Stones, and Other Stories...

Interview by Tony Norman, New Musical Express, 17 June 1972

ANDREW OLDHAM, THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE STONES ...

The Rolling Stones: The Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 17 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, 19 June 1972

The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street ...

Andrew Oldham: Last Part of the Tony Norman Series

Interview by Tony Norman, New Musical Express, 24 June 1972

LAST WEEK, Andrew Oldham talked about his life with the Rolling Stones. Like Brian Epstein, Oldham seemed to be more than just an ordinary manager. ...

Rolling Stones: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Disc, 24 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) ...

Our Name is Called Disturbance — The Rolling Stones: Winterland, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 28 June 1972

THE ROLLING STONES are on their first US tour since, the wild acclaim of their 1969 trip. In America, GEOFFREY CANNON describes the impact of ...

The Rolling Stones Tour: Rock & Roll On The Road Again

Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 6 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: Exile On Main St. (Rolling Stones)

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 6 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: Jumpin' Gas Flash Bops In Heartland

Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 20 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 ...

Mick Jagger: A Basically Serious Boy

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 23 July 1972

LONDON — HE may be his satanic majesty to Life magazine and Time and all the rest of the gang, but over here in London, ...

The Rolling Stones Go South

Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 3 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 T.A.M.I. Show

Retrospective by Jonh Ingham, Creem, September 1972

Monster Rock Flick Flips Out Freaks Coast To Coast ...

The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder: Boston Garden, Boston MA

Live Review by Michael Lydon, Fusion, November 1972

THE ROLLING Stones were magnificent in Boston. We arrived at a packed Boston Garden high and hopeful for an evening of visual thrills and musical ...

The Rolling Stones: Stones In The Sun (part 1)

Report and Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 23 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, New Musical Express, 30 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. ...

Looney Toons: The Rolling Stones — Seems Like A Freeze-Out

Comment by Dave Marsh, Creem, January 1973

IT SEEMS TO be December, and here we are with a full issue about the Rolling Stones, talking about such seemingly dated minutae as their ...

Stones In Jamaica: "Less Freaky And More Melodic"

Report and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 13 January 1973

THE ROLLING Stones have recorded now for more than 10 years, and they've operated under the most extreme chaos, but all has been well. But ...

Rock Routes: The London R&B Scene

Retrospective by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, February 1973

AT A TIME when most receptive organs — eyes, ears, pockets — were turned to Liverpool and its Merseybeat, another (and as it turned out ...

Rolling Stones Gather No Groupies

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 25 February 1973

GERI MILLER, where are you? They had a party for the Rolling Stones here in Sydney, Australia, this week, and it might as well havebeen ...

Ex-Byrd Gram Parsons Solos: He's No Longer in a Hurry

Interview by Judith (Judy) Sims, Rolling Stone, 1 March 1973

LOS ANGELES — Back in 1969 Gram Parsons, rhythm guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist, and Chris Ethridge, bassist, decided to form a country rock band ...

The Rolling Stones: A Case of the Mick Jaggers

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 11 March 1973

IT WAS one of the funniest cartoons I have ever seen. A mother is standing there, looking rather alarmed, holding on to her son whose ...

Mick Jagger Lets His Hair Down

Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 18 March 1973

THOSE OF you who have been irritably wondering what in the name of heaven I was doing in Australia with Mick Jagger when I should ...

Letter From Britain: Let's Drink To The Hard Working People

Essay by Simon Frith, Creem, April 1973

LIMPING ALONG, two months late as usual, but I've only just read the CREEM special issue, and I've got my own Stones' stories to tell. ...

Mick Jagger (1973) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 26 July 1973

This is a transcription of Keith's interview with the Stones mainmain. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

The Sound of the Stones

Profile and Interview by James Fox, The 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, 4 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, 18 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 ...

Billy Preston: The Way Billy Planned It

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 1 September 1973

When The Stones hit the road this month BILLY PRESTON goes with them. Here, he talks to MM's MICHAEL WATTS in Los Angeles ...

The Rolling Stones: ...We Also Sing The Blues

Essay by Mick Farren, International Times, 6 September 1973

THE ROLLING STONES are apt to get tied in with so many images, drugs, decadence, libertine aristos of the jive renaissance, that it gets all ...

Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 8 September 1973

Stones: you can sometimes get what you want... ...

The Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 8 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, New Musical Express, 22 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: Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones Records COC 59101)

Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 23 September 1973

The Stones In the Soup ...

The Rolling Stones: Dead Goats And Other Delicacies

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 29 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 ...

Stones in Europe: A Hearty Welcome After 2 Long Years

Report by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 11 October 1973

This is just another tour. And Wembley is just another show.  — Charlie Watts in London, the night before. ...

The Stones: Still rolling, slowly

Comment by John Swenson, The Village Voice, 11 October 1973

THE ROLLING Stones currently occupy a unique position in the music world — the only veteran supergroup left from the early '60s that has captured ...

The Rolling Stones: Up Against The Wall and Other Seedy Tales

Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 27 October 1973

WEST BERLIN has to be the absolute lowest, scuzziest dive sprawled out within the bounding perimeters of Western Capitalist Society. ...

Jagger's Goats Head Soup Jumps Back Into Music

Report and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, November 1973

When the Jamaican moon started turning the tide in Jagger's bloodstream, he left the tame world of the international Jet Set up in the air. ...

Pipeline

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giorgio Gomelsky: The Man Who Sold The World

Interview by Max Jones, Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 November 1973

Giorgio Gomelsky was a pioneer of British rock in the sixties. In the second part of an interview with MM he talks about managing Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll and his ...

The Rolling Stones: Goat's Head Soup

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 8 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones Records COC 59101)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 8 November 1973

THE TWICE-yearly ritualized introduction to your latest Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin review: "Well folks, on first and fifth and eleventh listening the imagery is ...

The Rock Lovers

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 ...

Farewell Androgyny n. hermaphroditism (Gr. Gyne, woman)

Overview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 16 March 1974

Is it time to shut the closet door? OUR HERO SEES THROUGH THE SEE-THROUGHS AND COMES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ELEGANCE IS MORE THAN A LIMP ...

Fashion: The Politics of Flash

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 6 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.' ...

Rock Dreams: Teen Fantasies as Art

Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974

Artist Guy Peellaert and Rock Dreams, artwork of rock icons in fantasized situations ...

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 ...

Keith Richards: It's Only Rock 'N' Roll But I Like It

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 June 1974

ROUTE 66 REVISITED By NICK KENT ...

Ladies And Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones, Directed by Rollin Binzer (Musifilm/Chesco — Bingo/Butterfly)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, August 1974

Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones is a film concert rather than a concert film, this distinction being that while most films of concerts cover ...

Rolling Stones: Jagger – It's Time For A Change

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 August 1974

"SORRY I'm late." "It's all right Mick." "No – it's not all right." ...

The Rolling Stones: 'Its Only Rock and Roll'

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974

"WE HAD THE hook line with nothing to set it to for a long time," Keith Richard explained in the Rolling Stones' London office. "Then ...

Mick Taylor: But I Still Love Him...

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 October 1974

...admits a "thoroughly reasonable," or maybe just "resignedly realistic," MICK TAYLOR as he lets us in on what it's like to be a Secondary Stone in this year of Our Lord 1974... ...

Ron Wood: Not Just Another Pretty Face

Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1974

LOS ANGELES — I've Got My Own Album To Do is a good title for Ron Wood's first solo album: It fits his sly, impish ...

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" ...

The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock 'N Roll (Rolling Stones)

Review by John Morthland, Creem, December 1974

HEY, IT'S not bad — not at all. ...

Making the Stones’ New Album

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, Rolling Stone, 5 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. ...

The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock 'N Roll (Rolling Stones COC 79101)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 19 December 1974

The Rolling Stones: Ain't Too Proud to Rock 'N Roll ...

The Rolling Stones: Melodrama in Munich

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 December 1974

Blockaded in a Hilton cocktail bar the Rolling Stones bathe their wounds in whisky... while Jagger recounts the events that led to Mick Taylor quitting ...

The Rolling Stones Need More Than Another Pretty Face

Report by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 22 December 1974

IMMEDIATELY AFTER Mick Taylor left (I hesitate' to say "quit") the Rolling Stones last week, speculation about his successor began. The gossip all but ignored ...

Alexis Korner (1975) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1975

This is a transcript of Karl's interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

The Faces: The Episodic Adventures of Rod Kool & The Tartan Gang

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975

OR, CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR... BUT, FOR ROD STEWART, EVERY BLEEDIN' NIGHT (jammy git) Being a crisp resume of three nights in the life ...

Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #3: What did Rod Stewart, Bobby Womack and Mick Jagger sing...

Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 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, New Musical Express, 28 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, 5 July 1975

Frenetic, laid back Stones ...

'Now Read' Ronnie Wood

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 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 ...

Rolling Stones: Tour Of The Americas 1975

Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 26 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 ...

The Stones Roll On: A Scare in Boston; Success in Toronto; A Slip in New York

Report by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 31 July 1975

NEW YORK — The scariest moment came in Boston, when overzealous fans grabbed the writhing, confetti-spitting dragon that appears at the end of 'Jumpin' Jack ...

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 ...

Stones Launch Onslaught '75 With Made In The Shade

Report and Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, August 1975

Roaring through the sun circuit, the Kings of Cool have set America buzzing with the might of a million locusts. ...

Billy Preston: Like a Rolling Stone

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 2 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 ...

Keith Richards: The Weasel Walks In

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 2 August 1975

Barbara Charone talks to Keith Richard, the man who Mick Jagger introduces as 'the guy on sort of vocals' ...

The Rolling Stones: I Call and Call and Call on Mick

Report by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 11 September 1975

  THE ROLLING Stones holed up at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for their week in Los Angeles. I arrived on July 8th about 12 hours after ...

Robert Greenfield: A Journey through America with the Rolling Stones

Book Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 20 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 ...

Bands On The Run From The Taxman?

Report by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 11 October 1975

THE PIONEER of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, defined the artist's aims as "fame, wealth, power, and the love of women." Though no one has yet found ...

The Rolling Stones: Rolled Gold

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 15 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 ...

So You Wanna Be A Label Boss? Start Your Own Record Label

Guide by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 29 November 1975

"As anybody knows who has read Karl Marx, it is distribution which is important if there is to be any kind of revolution. I'm not ...

Ron Wood: Cast Your Fate To The Wind, The Faces, Or The Rolling Stones

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 24 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, 29 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 ...

Bill Wyman: Lone Stone

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 6 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 ...

Rolling Stones: Black And Blue

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 24 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 (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 24 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: The Gospel According To The Glimmer Twins

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 24 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 (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 ...

Rolling Stones: Black And Blue (Rolling Stones Records COC 59106)

Review by Martin Hayman, Street Life, 1 May 1976

Old, Borrowed, Black And Blue ...

The Rolling Stones: Fire and Fury in Frankfurt

Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 8 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: Too Rolled To Stone

Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 May 1976

THE NICE THING about the law of gravity is that it applies to everybody. ...

The Rolling Stones: Gathering No Moss

Profile and Interview by James Fox, The Sunday Times, 9 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, 20 May 1976

Decembers Children Today: Glimmer Twins Star As Stones Roll On ...

Scandal of the Stones

Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 29 May 1976

THE ROLLING Stones flopped on the opening night of their six-concert series at London's Earls Court, despite the advantage of a sound system that cost ...

The Rolling Stones: The Rock 'N' Roll Circus Hits Town

Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 29 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? ...

Stones in Germany — World Next?

Report and Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 3 June 1976

FRANKFURT, GERMANY — The Rolling Stones are on tour again, traveling through Europe and preparing themselves for Bicentennial celebrations in the U.S. this summer. ...

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, 21 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Aftermath

Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 25 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 ...

The Rolling Stones

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, 22 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 ...

Don't Knock on (Ron) Wood, He's Busy Face-ing the Stones

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, March 1977

"IT'S IN THE contract, you know," says Ronnie Wood, trying to lock his features into a suitably stern Rolling Stones scowl. "You can't be seen ...

Britain's Tax Exiles; Keeping a Piece of the Rock

Report by Simon Frith, The Village Voice, 28 March 1977

It's difficult to feel sorry for an exile whose alternative to an impoverished Britain is unfettered hedonism in the south of France. ...

Keith Richard: Exile On The 32nd Floor

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 2 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, New Musical Express, 16 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, New Musical Express, 24 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 ...

Keith Richard Caught Live

Interview by Paul Nelson, Circus, 29 September 1977

A Long Look at the Rolling Stones, Love You Live, and the Journey Between Then and Now ...

Mick Jagger Hits Out At Everything In Sight!

Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 15 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. ...

The Rolling Stones: Dance On Waves 


Essay by Don Snowden, Rock Around The World, November 1977

"No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones in 1977" — The Clash ...

Mick Taylor: The Stone who got away

Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 3 November 1977

LONDON — "WHAT have I missed most not playing with the Stones? I've missed the scandals, the court cases, the drugs and the busts, that's ...

Jagger Jaw Session: Mannish Boy Gets What He... Needs

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. ...

Keith Richards: Heroin, old age, rhythm and blues

Interview by Victor Bockris, High Times, February 1978

KEITH RICHARD has been the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist for the last 15 years and one of rock's leading crusaders and criminals. His most recent ...

Everybody's talking to Lisa Robinson

Profile and Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 4 May 1978

NEW YORK — IT IS conceivable that America's most influential rock byline has never appeared in Rolling Stone. Lisa Robinson's natural turf is self-created and ...

Andrew Loog Oldham

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, 10 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, New Musical Express, 10 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, 1 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 ...

"I've Only Fallen Over Twice In Fifteen Gigs..." The Keith Richards Interview

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 5 August 1978

  CONTRARY TO legend, out on the road the Rolling Stones attempt to lead as normal a life as one can expect when living out of ...

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1978

STONES FIND MOSS RETARDANT ELIXIR ...

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones)

Review by Nick Tosches, Circus, 14 September 1978

Stones Rise From The Dead ...

The Rolling Stones: Back Door Men

Interview by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, 16 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 ...

Rolling Stones Dump On Rolling Stone

Report by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 14 October 1978

THE CHANGES which the imaginary magazine depicted in Between The Lines goes through — from radical underground to counter-culture to hip capitalist establishment — is ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones

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, 13 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, New Musical Express, 30 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 Records CUN 3911)

Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 28 June 1980

LAUNCH THE LIFEBOATS ...

The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)****

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 28 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 ...

Burbank Calling

Comment by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1980

They were six fine English boys Who knew each other in Birmingham They bought a drum and guitar Started a rock-roll band. ...

The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)

Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 21 August 1980

News from the pantheon — The Rolling Stones: what kind of a Rescue is this? ...

Mick and Miles (A Musical in Several Parts)

Essay by Al Aronowitz, The Blacklisted Masterpieces of Al Aronowitz, 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: Tattoo You (Rolling Stones Records) 

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 September 1981

HERE WE are! The Rolling Stones have made another album! Depeche Mode and Soft Cell join more established names like Duran Duran at the top ...

Rolling Stones — An Exclusive

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Record Mirror, 19 September 1981

Invited as a special guest to the farm in Massachusetts where legendary rock 'n' rollers the ROLLING STONES are rehearsing for their first US tour ...

The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Nick Tosches, Creem, November 1981

LIKE THE countless cruel-belching flotskies who sit in the countless unferned and uncedared bars of this one-horse universe grimacing into mirrors, not so much at ...

The Rolling Stones: What Makes the Stones Keep Rolling

Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The 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 Stones

Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 January 1982

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. ...

Rolling Stones: Taking The Mick Mick Mick Mick Mick

Report by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982

Andrew Tyler joins the Jagger press gang and finds the man won't fade away ...

The Rolling Stones: Still Life (Rolling Stones Records)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 5 June 1982

STILL LIFELIKE, AFTER ALL... ...

The Rolling Stones: Tiers Are Not Enough

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 3 July 1982

The Rolling Stones: Wembley Stadium, London ...

Rock Fashion: Lace Fop to Costume Ball Chic

Guide by John Mendelssohn, Musician, August 1982

An informal survey of the great movements in rock fashion, those cyclical variations on the theme of outraging mom and dad. ...

Take the Money and Run

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 7 July 1983

Rock & roll gets in bed with corporate America ...

The Rolling Stones: Undercover

Review by Van Gosse, The Village Voice, 22 November 1983

The Stones Try Harder ...

Rolling Stones: Undercover

Review by Anthony DeCurtis, Record, 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 ...

Julien Temple: The Inner Temple

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 1 December 1984

Wordsmith and sedentary snapper Adam Sweeting interrogates filmmaker and promo video master JULIEN TEMPLE... ...

The Stones

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. ...

20 Years On Bill Wyman Prepares To Tell It Like It Was...

Interview by Maureen O'Grady, 19, January 1985

ROLLING STONES CONCERTS PROVOKE VIOLENCE AND RIOTS... STONES RECORD BANNED BY RADIO STATIONS... STONES ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF ASSAULT AND DESTRUCTION... STONES ARRESTED FOR OBSCENE ...

Keith Richards: An English Werewolf in London

Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 22 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, ...

Ian Stewart: Like A Rolling Stone

Obituary by Mark Rowland, Musician, March 1986

IAN STEWART helped found the Rolling Stones, and he remained an integral member of that group until December 12, 1985, the day he died of ...

'Shelter' from the Storm: Merry Clayton

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 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, New Musical Express, 29 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Exiles on Mainstream

Essay by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, May 1986

Being a Rolling Stone used to mean never having to pick up a Grammy. Until now. ...

Exiles On Wall Street: The Rolling Stones: Dirty Work (Rolling Stones)

Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1986

IF I KNEW exactly how the Rolling Stones lost their sense of song structure, explaining this boring rip-off might make for an interesting lecture. But ...

Keith Richards Shares His Songwriting Secrets

Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar, 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Back To Zero

Report by Nick Kent, Spin, August 1986

The demise of the Rolling Stones may be attributable to one simple fact: the baddest, oldest rock 'n' roll band in the world has run ...

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 ...

Keith Richards (1988) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 19 September 1988

This is a transcript of Ira's audio interview with Keith. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Out Of The Cage: An interview with Keith Richards

Interview by Ira Robbins, unpublished, 19 September 1988

IR: You’ve done a lot of interviews lately. It’s hard to pick questions you haven’t been asked... ...

Jagger scores down under

Report and Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1988

Successful Australian tour reaffirms the singer's powers ...

Stanley Booth: Myth and Misquotation

Essay by Greil Marcus, The 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 & 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. ...

Keith Richards: Sealed with a disc

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 25 August 1989

Keith Richards bridles at the suggestion that rock is a young man's game. Spruced up, rifts with Mick Jagger all forgotten, he and the Stones ...

The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels (CBS LP/Cassette/CD)

Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989

STERLING MOSS ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Living Colour: Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1989

Guns N' Roses Shows Some Mettle ...

Timothy W. Ryback: Rock Around The Bloc – A History Of Rock Music In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union (Oxford University Press)

Book Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, February 1990

WHEN PAUL MCCARTNEY announced his $8.5 million promotion deal with Visa at a recent press conference, he was challenged to explain how his new sideline ...

Bob Clearmountain: Making the hard stuff look easy

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, July 1990

BOB CLEARMOUNTAIN exudes a calm, deliberate air as he moves around the cluttered interior of a recording truck parked outside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre. Politely negotiating ...

Keith Richards: Grin Reaper

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, New Musical Express, 14 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 ...

Massimo Bonanno: The Rolling Stones Chronicle and Martin Elliott: The Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Wyman: Stone Alone

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, The Times, 25 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 ...

Big Deals: How Money Fever is Changing the Music Business

Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, January 1992

"IN MARCH of 1985 the band was broke. People were selling their houses. The IRS was calling every day." ...

Once-cool songs now politically incorrect

Comment by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 9 January 1992

IT'S TIME TO re-evaluate that good ol' time rock 'n' roll. Or, as you may discover, not so good ol' time rock 'n' roll. ...

Bradford rolls away the Stones: At the Max

Film/DVD/TV Review by Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 30 January 1992

Bruce Dessau reports on a Rolling Stones concert film — the first to be shown on IMAX ...

What's In A Name?

Essay by John Mendelssohn, Musician, April 1992

Band names have mirrored the aspirations and excesses of the times. A definitive field guide to the epic trends and gonzo greats of rock nomenclature. ...

Keef: Exile just a shot away from Main Street

Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The European, 24 September 1992

IT HAS become something of a cliche to say that Keith Richards is the Rolling Stones. ...

Keith Richards

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 ...

Pete Rock and CL Smooth

Interview by Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993

MANAGER ADOFO Muhammad is talking up his brother and CL Smooth's success. "The unique sound is all incorporated in Pete Rock's flow — his art. ...

Andrew Loog Oldham: "Charlie's Good Tonight, Innit?"

Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1 May 1993

Cancel room service! The man who styled and managed those grubby pop hopefuls The Rolling Stones — forever staining the world with the concept of ...

London: Ditty Old Town

Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993

From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...

Twilight in Babylon: Adventures with the Rolling Stones

Retrospective by Nick Kent, MOJO, April 1994

THE FIRST THING you need to know about my adventures with the Rolling Stones is that they pretty much all took place once the basic ...

Charlie Watts: The Rock

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 ...

Nick Kent: Hack From The Brink

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 28 May 1994

Wanna find out where MM acquired its taste for livid purple prose? Then let PAUL LESTER introduce you to legendary rock journalist NICK KENT, whose ...

Don Was & Glyn Johns: Speaking for the Record

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, August 1994

From Get Back to Backbeat Glyn Johns and Don Was Have Produced a Rock 'n'Roll Hall of Fame. ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Ladies and Gentlemen, The Interesting Old Farts

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, August 1994

Mike likes mincing about with the aristocracy. Keith likes taking drugs in his coffin. Mick likes fast songs. Keith likes the slow ones. Mick enjoys ...

The Rolling Stones: Rock'n'roll in-laws

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, September 1994

If Mick and Keith are still regarded as rock'n'roll outlaws, where does that leave Ronnie and Charlie? Adrian Deevoy meets the drone Stones to discuss ...

Mick Jagger

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 ...

Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stones in Hyde Park # 4

Memoir by Mick Farren, MOJO, July 1995

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, my date for the Stones concert in Hyde Park was Germaine Greer, although I remember, once we arrived there, I spent ...

The Rolling Stones: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 10 July 1995

Charlie upstages ye olde rock stars ...

Master Musicians of Jajouka: Stoned on the best Moroccan

Retrospective by David Toop, The Times, 22 July 1995

Rolling Stone Brian Jones was intoxicated by the music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, says David Toop. Now they are in London. ...

Andrew Loog Oldham: The Rolling Stones' First Manager And Producer

Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 24 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Stripped

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. ...

"Radically Festive": The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus

Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 1996

On December 10, 1968, some of the most exciting talent in rock history gathered for an event all the more legendary for having been quietly ...

...And The Arrest is History: Great Rock'n'Roll Drug Busts Through the Ages

Retrospective by Stuart Bailie, New Musical Express, 25 January 1997

Liam Gallagher's caution for possession of cocaine is the latest in a long line of rock'n'roll drug busts. STUART BAILIE remembers those other pop stars ...

The Dust Brothers: Brothers of Invention

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Details, August 1997

They pulled poetry out of Beck. They wrung gold out of Hanson. Now they're remaking the Rolling Stones. Rob Tannenbaum meets the Dust Brothers. ...

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, New Musical Express, 20 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 (Virgin)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1997

The Stones Babylon and On... ...

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 ...

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: Bridges To Babylon (Virgin) ****

Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 2 October 1997

ON THEIR last two albums, the Rolling Stones proved that they still had verve and stamina, and that they could re-create the sounds of their ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Babylon By Jet

Report and Interview by Chris Heath, Rolling Stone, 5 March 1998

THE ROLLING STONES MOUNT THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN ROCK TOUR EVER ...

Access all areas: The Rock Muse

Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Harper's Bazaar, April 1998

Scratch an epic rock god and you'll usually find a cool, inspiring woman who supplied him with lyrics, contacts and style. Now that girl power ...

Dancing in the Street

Film/DVD/TV 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 ...

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. ...

It's an ugly business

Comment by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 21 June 1998

Pop rant: Why do male rock stars have faces like bags of spanners? ...

On Stoney Ground with Bernard Fowler

Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 31 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 ...

Anita Pallenberg (1998) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Summer 1998

This is a transcription of a phone interview. Listen to the audio of this interview.   ...

Mick Jagger: The Old Man and The Sex

Profile by Philip Norman, The 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: But what can a poor boy do?

Report and Interview by David Sinclair, MOJO, May 1999

IN AMERICA, THE STONES' JUGGERNAUT ROLLS ON UNSTOPPABLY. BUT BACK HOME THEIR STOCK HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM. AS THE BAND'S STRIPPED-DOWN NEW SHOW DEFIES THE ...

White Men Sing The Blues: The Rolling Stones and Black Culture

Essay by James Maycock, The Independent, 4 June 1999

A bitchy look at how the Rolling Stones’ career is excessively/artfully indebted to black American culture. ...

Brian Jones: The Bittersweet Symphony

Retrospective by Rob Chapman, MOJO, July 1999

Rolling Stones founder, Rolling Stones reject; ruthless controller, helpless passenger; blues obsessive, dabler in the exotic; countercultural networker, paranoid recluse; adored Prince Charming, vicious heartbreaker; ...

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 ...

I Was A Pop Star's Arse-wiper!

Report by Martin Aston, Q, January 2000

For as long as there have been rock stars, there have been rock star "support systems", from the Memphis Mafia to "Spanish" Tony Sanchez to ...

Andrew Loog Oldham

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 ...

Sonny Barger: Hell's author

Report and Interview by Deanne Stillman, salon.com, 10 July 2000

IN 1982, AFTER smoking three packs of Camels a day for 30 years, Sonny Barger, the founder of the Oakland Hells Angels motorcycle club, was ...

The True Adventures of Stanley Booth: An email interview with the Stones' greatest chronicler

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, August 2000

STANLEY BOOTH IS one hell of a writer. The evidence is clear once you pick up his book on the world's greatest rock ‘n' roll ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones in Exile

Retrospective by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 2001

THE TWO pre-eminent British bands of the gaudy 1960s marked the grey dawn of the 1970s in very different ways. ...

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. ...

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/TV Review by Mark Pringle, Mat Snow, Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 3 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, 11 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: Stephen Davis' 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 ...

Cocksucker Blues

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

Jim Dickinson: Home Cooking

Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2002

THIS MAIN COURSE is a hearty southern dish, marinated in worldly wisdom and good humour, matured slowly in honky-tonks, recording studios and bars the world ...

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 ...

The Maysles Brothers' Gimme Shelter (Criterion DVD)

Film/DVD/TV Review by Rick McGrath, Culture Court, June 2002

Directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin ...

Rolling Stones: Shattered

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, The Sunday Times, 27 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 ...

10 Reasons Why the Rolling Stones Were the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band

Comment by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, November 2002

I. BRIAN JONES' HAIR ...

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: Play With Fire

Essay by 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 ...

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 ...

Keith Richards: The Human Riff

Interview by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, December 2002

For 40 years, KEITH RICHARDS has been the soul of The Rolling Stones, a band he wouldn't let die even when he seemed to be ...

The Rolling Stones: Time is On Their Side

Retrospective by Fred Goodman, TV Guide, 18 January 2003

After four decades, THE ROLLING STONES are still rockin' – now with a live HBO concert. Here, a jumpin' flashback to the band's most memorable ...

The Making of the Rolling Stones' 'Tumbling Dice'

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, April 2003

PERFORMERS Mick Jagger – vocals, guitar Keith Richards – guitar Mick Taylor – guitar and bass Charlie Watts – drums  Nicky Hopkins – piano Clydie ...

The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction'

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, April 2003

PERFORMERS Mick Jagger – vocals, guitar Keith Richards – guitar Brian Jones – guitar Charlie Watts - drums  Bill Wyman - bass Jack Nitzsche – piano, tambourine ...

Mick Jagger: Sympathy for the Old Devil

Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Independent on Sunday, 27 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, The Independent, 15 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, The Sunday Times, 17 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. ...

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

Book Review by 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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main St.

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 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., ...

25 Essential Music DVDs

Guide by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, September 2004

1. The Last Waltz THE BAND'S elegant swansong is the ultimate rock concert movie. Director Martin Scorsese's discreet camerawork and superb sound captures inspired performances from ...

Rolling Stones: Howzat!

Retrospective and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, October 2004

Out the same month as the rock and roll circus was filmed, Beggars Banquet was the Stones' first classic album. Charles Shaar Murray revisits their ...

The TAMI Show Remembered

Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 29 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 ...

The Achievement of Madness: Performance

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Summer 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 ...

Rolling Stones: Live Licks

Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2005

THEIR SEVENTH concert record, if you’re counting ...

Brian Jones: Death of a Rolling Stone

Retrospective by Carol Clerk, Uncut, February 2005

Without guitarist BRIAN JONES, there would have been no Rolling Stones. And yet the golden boy of the '60s was also the first rock casualty ...

Skuawk! DVD Pick: The Rolling Stones - Rock and Roll Circus

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, skuawk.com, 11 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 Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2005

WHAT DO WE expect of the Rolling Stones in 2005? Musical progression? Originality? You may as well wish for change from Mount Rushmore. To expect ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: United Center, Chicago

Live Review by Bob Mehr, MOJO, April 2006

SINCE THEIR ESCAPE from UK tax laws in the early '70s, the Rolling Stones have been a band with no fixed abode. ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet

Review by Daryl Easlea, bbc.co.uk, 2007

THE ALBUM THAT set the template for The Rolling Stones as we know them today, Beggars Banquet was an exercise in getting back to basics ...

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 ...

Ronnie Wood

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, ...

Summer of Love: London

Retrospective by Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2007

Tightly knit, decadent and explosively creative, the scene was too good to last ...

School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008

BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...

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, 3 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 Sounds of Scorsese

Overview by Nick Coleman, The Independent, 26 March 2008

AS THE VETERAN FILM-MAKER RELEASES HIS CONCERT MOVIE ON THE ROLLING STONES, NICK COLEMAN APPLAUDS A DIRECTOR WHO'S ALWAYS PUT MUSIC AT THE HEART OF ...

Martin Scorsese: Shine A Light

Film/DVD/TV Review by John Lewis, Sight & Sound, April 2008

A live film of a Rolling Stones concert, recorded at the Beacon Theater in New York over the course of two nights (October 29 and ...

The Fancast Interview: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards talk about their latest documentary

Interview by Noe Gold, Fancast.com, April 2008

BEGINNING IN August 2005, the Rolling Stones spent two years circling the globe on their "Bigger Bang" tour, taking in more than $580 million. ...

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, ...

Guy Peellaert, 1934-2008

Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 29 January 2009

Belgian artist most famous for his rock dreamscapes ...

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 ...

Electric gypsies : Tommy Weber and friends

Book Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 6 May 2009

TOMMY WEBER (né Thomas Ejnar Arkner, 1938 — 2006) was a trickster, so I cannot help but love him. ...

All rock stars have a price, even Mick Jagger

Report by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 28 June 2009

The biggest names in music have been enjoying a nice little earner – getting paid millions to perform for the super-rich. ...

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, 2 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, ...

Naked Eye: An Interview with Ethan Russell

Interview by Steve Matteo, Long Island Pulse, 26 October 2009

PHOTOGRAPHER ETHAN Russell prefers to let his pictures do his talking. In a rare interview, the only photographer to do an album cover for the ...

The Gimme Shelter You Didn't See

Review by Michael Azerrad, Rock's Backpages, 24 November 2009

GIMME SHELTER is generally considered one of the best rock documentaries ever made, perhaps one of the best documentaries on any topic. ...

Nick Kent: Apathy for the Devil – A 1970s Memoir

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 21 February 2010

AS AN EYEWITNESS account of the dangerous excesses of the 1970s rock scene, Apathy for the Devil is in a compulsively readable class of its ...

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 ...

The T.A.M.I. Show: Rock's Greatest Concert Movie Ever?

Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, May 2010

Richie Unterberger celebrates a legendary who's who of rock and soul royalty caught live in their prime, and now finally available on DVD. ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones Rock Jimmy Fallon

Report and Interview by Alan Light, TV Guide, May 2010

Late Night shines a light on Exile on Main Street's reissue with a week-long tribute. ...

The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street (Polydor)

Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, May 2010

HAVING DRAWN THE Stones' latest, double album from its unsettling, monochrome sleeve, how long did it take contemporary listeners to realise this wouldn't be business ...

Jeff Beck talks about Rod Stewart and answers some questions for Classic Rock

Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2011

JEFF BECK confirmed to Classic Rock that the two old buddies would renew a partnership that first saw light in the late 1960s when the two rock ...

Behind The Song: 'Not Fade Away'

Essay by Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, 16 March 2011

AT THIS YEAR'S Grammys, 67-year-old Mick Jagger was out from the get-go to tell the audience how it was gonna be. He wasn't ceding anything ...

Keith Richards: The Rake's Progress

Interview by Mark Ellen, The Word, June 2011

From the coal smoke of '40s Dartford to a one-million concert audience in the 21st Century, Keith Richards' rollicking memoir is the tale of an ...

Michael Lindsay-Hogg: Fortunate Son

Profile and Interview by Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, September 2011

"I'M SADDLED with a very good memory. I remember things from 50 years ago like I'm talking to you today." The director Michael Lindsay-Hogg — ...

The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on Some Girls

Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, November 2011

"THE IDEA WAS ten songs, very direct, not a lot of backing vocals or horns, no duets or guests, very straightforward," says Mick Jagger. "We ...

Why a Rolling Stones bootleg is one of my albums of the year

Comment by John Harris, The Guardian, 22 November 2011

Their recent reissues might be rubbish, but 1973 bootleg Brussels Affair shows the Stones at their onstage peak. ...

The Rolling Stones: Some Girls

Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2012

Fired up by disco and punk, Jagger's swagger returns, with a disc of unreleased songs. ...

True Adventures with the Rolling Stones: Stanley Booth

Retrospective and Interview by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2012

Fifty years after the band was formed, Stanley Booth, who wrote a book about the infamous American tour of 1969, talks to Mick Brown. ...

Got Dem Ol' Home Counties Blues Again, Mama: How the Surrey Delta shaped British rock from the early Stones to Led Zeppelin

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 3 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 ...

Rolling Stones' Crossfire Hurricane doc a worthwhile addition to legacy

Film/DVD/TV Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 16 November 2012

THE ROLLING STONES are still rebels; still the bad boys of rock that Andrew Loog Oldham groomed them to be. ...

The Rolling Stones: the greatest rock and roll band in the world? That's a bit rich

Comment by Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, 26 November 2012

Their latest shows prove the Rolling Stones can still work a crowd, but their music is of a time long gone ...

12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief: Madison Square Garden, New York

Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012

IT MIGHT HAVE been the single greatest gathering of talent for a rock show – or it might just have been, as Mick Jagger put ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture

Comment by Paul Morley, The Observer, 31 March 2013

The new generation is blocked from moving on creatively, not only by the baby boomers but also their own inertia. ...

Andy Johns, 1950-2013

Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 9 April 2013

Consummate sound engineer who worked with some of rock's greats ...

Born in Chicago: Butterfield, Bloomfield & the Sixties' Young Turks

Comment by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, 18 April 2013

IS IT JUST ME? Or has anyone else who's seen the PBS special Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones Live found the whole affair cringe-worthy ...

No Expectations: The Stones at the Staples Center

Live Review by Mitchell Cohen, Rock's Backpages, 5 May 2013

PEOPLE AT THE Staples Center in L.A. this week spent a considerable chunk of cash to be in the same room as the Rolling Stones. ...

Andy Johns 1952-2013

Obituary by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2013

ANDY JOHNS lived rock'n'roll, whether that meant delicately dangling microphones over a banister at country house studio Headley Grange to get the sound of John ...

Keith Richards Interviewed

Interview by Jon Wilde, Sabotage Times, 20 June 2013

Long before Johnny Depp based Captain Jack on him, Keith Richards was just the pirate blues chief of the Rolling Stones. And not averse to ...

The Rolling Stones at Locarno Ballroom, Stevenage, 1 April 1964

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, July 2013

MY FIRST GIG. How lucky can you get? All through 1963 the Beatles had opened it up for post-war, ration-book teens. Then the Stones' third ...

Keith Richards ready to roll back the years

Report and Interview by Graham Reid, The New Zealand Herald, 5 December 2013

As the Rolling Stones prepare to bring their 50th anniversary celebrations to Auckland, guitarist Keith Richards talks to Graham Reid. ...

The Time We Said Hello: The Day I Met Keith Richards

Book Excerpt by Robert Greenfield, 'Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye' (Da Capo), May 2014

Having been selected to conduct the Rolling Stone interview with Keith Richards in May 1971, the author embarks on a perilous journey to meet his ...

Bobby Keys 1943-2014

Obituary by Kris Needs, Classic Rock Online, December 2014

FOR THE LAST 45 years, Bobby Keys was the closest the Rolling Stones got to sporting a sixth member; a larger-than-life force of nature blessed ...

Norman Jopling: Shake It Up Baby! Notes From A Pop Music Reporter 1961-1972

Book Review by Mark Paytress, MOJO, May 2015

ON MAY 8,1963, an issue of New Record Mirror hit the London streets with a lead story that had enormous unforeseen consequences. ...

Talking Drummer: An Interview with Remi Kabaka

Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages, July 2015

ON A SATURDAY afternoon in late May, I arrive at a large outdoor sports facility on the west side of Los Angeles.  There are several playing fields ...

Black and Blue: Keith Richards interviewed

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 September 2015

Julian Marszalek meets the Rolling Stones guitarist and living legend to talk race, drugs and persistence. ...

'Route 66' is the Quintessential American Tune

Essay by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2016

FOR SIX DECADES, Bobby Troup's '(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66' has been a musical guidebook, transcending styles and fashion, recognizing no boundaries. ...

10 Unjustly Overlooked British Invasion Albums (1964–1966)

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2016

SO MANY artists in the tsunami of music from the U.K. that flooded America in the mid-'60s went on to make extraordinary albums over a ...

Kooper Sessions

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2017

IF HE'D DONE nothing before or after he dropped by a Bob Dylan recording session in June 1965, sat down at the Hammond organ – ...

Anita Pallenberg on Exile On Main Street

Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Please Kill Me!, 20 June 2017

IT WAS JUST a moment in time, a time when legends lived like fucking legends. I remember as a kid seeing paparazzi photos in the ...

Paperback Writer

Guide by Steve Matteo, Boomer, 17 August 2018

Recent books by and about favorite boomer musicians and influencers ...

Ronnie Wood: "These men were dangerous…"

Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, November 2018

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my original version, as submitted to the magazine. ...

Decca Records in 1964: The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Tom Jones and the British pop explosion

Retrospective by Jon Savage, The Guardian, 3 July 2019

To celebrate 90 years of Decca Records, a new book about the label's history is being released. In this exclusive extract, renowned music critic Jon Savage ...

The Rolling Stones: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ

Live Review by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 6 August 2019

With Mick Jagger's recent heart operation clearly a success, the Stones sound better than they have in years. ...

The History of the Blues-Rock Press: Part 1

Retrospective by Don Armstrong, Music Journalism History, November 2019

Based on a series of posts published in Music Journalism History from November 9, 2019 to March 13, 2020. ...

Black, blue and very bad taste: the Rolling Stones billboard that still sparks controversy

Retrospective by Edward Helmore, The Observer, 19 April 2020

There was a feminist outcry when the band used a tied-up model to promote their 1976 album. Is rock'n'roll more enlightened now? ...

Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Lucas, Please Kill Me!, 7 September 2020

The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long held a special flame for Brian Jones, ...

Rolling Stones: The Dome at America's Center, St. Louis

Live Review by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 27 September 2021

The veteran rockers return to the road with an emotional tribute to their long-time drummer and a reinvigorated sense of purpose. ...

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see also Mick Jagger

see also Brian Jones

see also New Barbarians

see also Andrew Loog Oldham

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