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“I think it sounds lousy.” Mick Jagger says he isn’t a fan of the Rolling Stones’ most celebrated album
By Phil Weller published
Though the record classic is now hailed as a masterpiece, Jagger calls it one of his least-favorite albums and blames the disorder that surrounded its creation

“We haven’t got a single.” Paul McCartney recalls how the Beatles gave the Rolling Stones their first hit
By Phil Weller published
McCartney says the bands’ supposed rivalry was largely invented by the press as London’s ’60s rock scene exploded.

“You are Robert Smith from the Cure!” Mick Jagger recalls the unexpected moment that led to a Rolling Stones collaboration
By Christopher Scapelliti published
The Stones frontman shared the story during a chat on Tuesday with Conan O’Brien in Brooklyn to announce the band’s new album, ‘Foreign Tongues’

Steve Stevens on the time Mick Jagger was mistaken for a session bassist
By Gary Graff published
Jagger dropped in on a Billy Idol studio date hoping to interest Stevens in a new guitar company created by his brother

The night Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger discovered the blues
By Elizabeth Swann published
Before Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones, they heard the blues live — and were inspired to change rock music forever

How Steve Lillywhite made a Platinum album with the Rolling Stones in the midst of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger’s darkest moment
By Phil Weller published
He’d scored hits for U2, Peter Gabriel and the Psychedelic Furs, but Lillywhite had never encountered sessions like those with the Stones

For Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and Bob Dylan, Live Aid was a case of bad vibes for a good cause
By Gary Graff published
We look back at a few of the big guitar moments from the global music event, held 40 years ago on July 13

“He said, ‘Come by the studio tomorrow and bring your guitar.’ All at once, my life changed.” How an unknown guitarist turned a lunch date into session work on the biggest hits of the 1980s
By Joe Bosso published
Eddie Martinez’s chance encounter made him a go-to session player for Mick Jagger, Steve Winwood, Robert Palmer and others

"Every kid who picks up a guitar wants to be Keith Richards, right?" How Andrew Watt kicked Keef and Mick Jagger "up the ass in the studio," connected the Stones back to Muddy Waters, and recruited Paul McCartney for a punky cameo on the band's new album
By Brad Tolinski published
Andrew Watt has made records with Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Pearl Jam, and more, but manning the boards for the Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds was, he says, "the honor of my lifetime”
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