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LEFT: Robert Smith performs with the Cure on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, April 30, 2004. RIGHT: Mmick Jagger with the Rolling Stones, July 10, 2024 in Inglewood, California.
“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’

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LEFT: Rolling Stones Keith Richards getting interviewed on overseas beach, unknown, 1986. RIGHT: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin performs on stage at Oude Rai on 27th May 1972 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He plays a Gibson Les Paul guitar.
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

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English rock group The Rolling Stones perform on the set of the ABC Television pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England on 30th January 1965. The band would play three songs on the show, Down Home Girl, Under the Boardwalk and Susie Q. Members of the group are, from left, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones (playing Gibson Firebird guitar), Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (playing Epiphone guitar).
Bill Wyman on the $15 bass guitar that powered the Rolling Stones’ classic hits

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Long before stadium tours and Platinum sales, a cheap Dallas Tuxedo was the bassist’s secret studio weapon

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Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, and Keith Richards onstage in 1987
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

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Rolling Stones Keith Richards getting interviewed on overseas beach, unknown, 1986.
Keith Richards on forcing out his and Mick Jagger’s first hit

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The result was a song entirely unlike anything the Rolling Stones would have recorded

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LEFT: Pink Floyd 1974 David Gilmour performing with Roy Harper at Hyde Park, 1970. RIGHT: Jimi Hendrix performs live on stage playing a black Fender Stratocaster guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969.
David Gilmour on his early adventures seeing — and mixing sound for — his idol, Jimi Hendrix

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

A Hendrix devotee, Gilmour helped operate the PA system for Hendrix's performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival

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LEFT: CIRCA 1967: Bassist Paul McCartney of the rock and roll band "The Beatles" records bass in the studio in circa 1967. RIGHT: English musician and record producer Glyn Johns in his London home, 2nd January 1975.
Studio legend Glyn Johns on Paul McCartney's shocking request to work on what became the Beatles' final album

By Phil Weller Published

The album’s roots live on as 'Let It Be,' but Johns says the rest of the band didn’t get McCartney’s “really interesting” idea

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Keith Richards Keithburst Les Paul
The Met refutes Mick Taylor’s claims that he ever owned the “Keithburst” Les Paul as it prepares to exhibit the historic guitar

By Phil Weller Published

Taylor is said to be “mystified” that his guitar, stolen during the 'Exile on Main Street' sessions, ended up in the museum’s collection, but the museum tells a different tale

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LEFT: Elton John performs at London's Hammersmith Odeon, December, 1973. RIGHT: Keith Richards performs with the Rolling Stones in Amsterdam, June 29, 1996
Keith Richards’ and Elton John’s long-running feud began with one disastrous Rolling Stones gig 

By Elizabeth Swann Published

Elton had been invited onstage to play one song .He stayed for another 10, earning Richards ire for decades to come

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LEFT: JIMMY PAGE of Led Zeppelin performing live on the ARMS Benefit Tour at The Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles, CA USA on December 5, 1983. RIGHT: Portrait of British musician Keith Richards as he holds a guitar and poses on a porch, around the time of his 'Talk is Cheap' tour, late 1988.
Keith Richards on Jimmy Page and the one thing he said kept Led Zeppelin from taking flight

By Phil Weller Published

The guitarists may have a great mutual respect for one another, but their respective comments shine a light on their different approaches to rock and roll

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