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\”Gimme Shelter\”: The Night the Rolling Stones Wrote the End of the Sixties
“Gimme Shelter”: The Night the Rolling Stones Wrote the End of the Sixties The sky went black over London without warning. Keith Richards was sitting by the window of his friend Robert Fraser’s apartment on Mount Street, an acoustic guitar in his lap, when the rain came down in what he would later call an…
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The Rolling Stones: The Loves, Losses, and Quiet Devotions Behind the World’s Loudest Band
For sixty years, the Rolling Stones have sold us an image: the swagger, the sneer, the endless party. But behind the most hedonistic band in rock history are some of the most devoted, most heartbroken, and most quietly steadfast people in popular music. A drummer who stayed married to the same woman for fifty-seven years.…
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How the Rolling Stones Made “Sticky Fingers”: Three Days in Alabama, a Working Zipper, and the Album That Defined Rock Cool
Every great band gets one album that feels like a coronation. For the Rolling Stones, it was “Sticky Fingers.” Released on April 23, 1971, it was their first record on their own label, the first to carry the famous tongue-and-lips logo, and the first full studio album to feature Mick Taylor on guitar. It also…
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The Untold Story of the Rolling Stones: Sleep-Written Riffs, a Riot at Altamont, and Sixty Years of Survival
No band was supposed to last this long. The Rolling Stones were supposed to burn bright for a few years, the way pop bands did in the early sixties, and then fade into the variety-show circuit. Instead, they became something no one had ever seen before: a rock band that simply refused to stop. Six…