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“When I first joined them I couldn’t believe how bad they were. I thought, ‘How do they make such good records?’” Mick Taylor’s Rolling Stones baptism by fire came just two days after Brian Jones’ death – in front of 250,000 people

Jones’ decline into drug addiction in the two years prior to his tragic death at the age of 27 prevented the Stones from touring, leaving them quite rusty – not that that lessened their drawing power

Guitar World

“Yes, you will be getting a new album next year. It is done”: Ronnie Wood confirms a new Stones album is on the way

And band are planning live dates

MusicRadar

The Rolling Stones' new album is ready to roll

The Rolling Stones have finished their follow-up to 2023's Hackney Diamonds and are also hoping to hit the road.

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“It’s quite lyrical and different from a lot of other Stones songs... I played in a different mode”: Mick Taylor lent stunning slide work to golden-era Rolling Stones classics, but he says this obscure album cut is his best performance with the band

“Because of the structure of the song, it pushed my guitar playing in a slightly different direction,” the ex-Stone said of his unlikely pick

Guitar World

"We didn't find it difficult to write pop songs, but it was VERY difficult to write one for the Stones”: 60 years of The Last Time – the Stones’ big breakthrough

It was the group’s first self-penned Number One

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Spanish band accuses The Rolling Stones of plagiarism over lockdown song 'Living in a Ghost Town'

The leader of Spanish band Angelslang, Sergio García Fernández, claims the Rolling Stones plagiarised two of his tracks to make 'Living in a Ghost Town', a song released during the pandemic. The case is now before a Madrid court.

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“Once we had done that, we were in the game”: 60 years of The Last Time – the Stones’ big breakthrough

It was the group’s first self-penned Number One

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The Rolling Stones announce Super Deluxe Box Set edition of 1976 record Black And Blue

The reissued album, out in November, will feature a new mix, unreleased outtakes, rare live performances and more

Louder

New Rolling Stones podcast launched - first episode includes Andrew Loog Oldham interview

The Lip Service podcast promises in-depth interviews with the Rolling Stones' inner circle

Louder

“He says to Mick Jagger backstage ‘They hate me!’ Mick told him, ‘if you’re going to play to a crowd this big, you have to have a rock band. You have to have a big sound’”: Did Prince’s "humiliating" Rolling Stones experience inspire his later success?

Producer Andrew Watt recalls what Jagger told him when he happened to be wearing a Prince T-shirt in the studio

MusicRadar

“Drug dealers and freaks and crazy people left over from the 60s – all defiant and distorted”: The story behind the Rolling Stones’ iconic Exile On Main Street album cover

How a guy with balls in his mouth became an unlikely Stones cover star

Louder

“They still maintain these ridiculous hours. After lunch until, like, two in the morning”: Marlon Richards says that the Stones have been putting together a new album in London

They’ll be a new album and tour in 2026, he suggests

MusicRadar

“A kid came in, plugged into an amp and started. It was extraordinary. I went out the next day to find records by this character, 'Jimi Hendrix…'”: David Gilmour on the first time he saw Hendrix play – in the company of the Beatles and Rolling Stones

A broke, pre-Pink Floyd Gilmour rocked up to a free jam evening at a music club – and had his entire guitar world rocked

Guitar World

“Without Chuck Berry there wouldn't have been The Beatles or the Stones. But none of those guys attended his funeral, which I thought was very strange”: Gene Simmons recalls his eulogy for a rock ’n’ roll legend

Plus: the shocking stories Simmons heard from his former partner Diana Ross

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“I said, ‘What about Keith Richards?’ I was just joking... He came with about 600 guitars in a semi-truck. And a butler”: How Tom Waits began a decades-long creative partnership with the Rolling Stones legend

Though their string of collaborations sprung from an offhand joke made to record executives, the singer/songwriter best known for his singular, gravelly, time-weathered vocals clicked immediately with the wizened rhythm guitar master who's lived a thousand lives

Louder

"Time seemed to stand still to the unmistakable sound of fights breaking out": What happened when The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd played Knebworth

In 1976, the Stones pulled a vast crowd to Knebworth. It was a day of surprises, not least how late everything ran

Guitar World

“Interviewers were telling me that I started the whole glam rock, hair metal scene. I said, ‘What? Don’t blame me for that!’” Drugs, guitars, triumph and tragedy – the inside story of Hanoi Rocks

40 years ago – after moving to London to invent the movement that would inspire a million L.A. bands – Finnish upstarts Hanoi Rocks self-destructed. This is their story

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“If you’re given the choice between boxing kangaroos and John Lennon you choose John Lennon”: The strange, brief existence of the John Lennon-fronted supergroup hidden for decades

Back in 1968, Lennon, Keith Richards and an unlikely collection of musical cohorts tore through a White Album highlight

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to have solved the mystery of the Rolling Stones' 1959 Gibson Les Paul – which Mick Taylor alleges has been missing for decades

The guitar, which was famously played by Keith Richards on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, was thought to have been stolen in 1971 – a rock 'n' roll legend which the Met refutes

The Independent UK

From the Stones to Cardi B, this college haunt has attracted big acts for 50 years

A Connecticut nightclub with a storied history is celebrating its 50th year in business

Euronews

Former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor claims Met Museum has his stolen guitar

A rock 'n' roll relic is stirring up drama between a guitar legend and one of New York's most iconic museums.

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Terry Reid remembered as ‘beautiful person and soul’

After his death aged 75, musician Terry Reid has been remembered as a “beautiful person and soul”.

The Independent UK

A former Rolling Stone says the Met has his stolen guitar. The museum disputes it

A guitar once played by two Rolling Stones members is at the center of a dispute between former guitarist Mick Taylor and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louder

Terry Reid, the powerhouse English vocalist invited to join Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, dead at 75

Confirmation of Terry Reid's death arrives just days after a crowdfunder was launched to help pay for his medical expenses

The Guardian - UK

Terry Reid, British musician championed by the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page and more, dies aged 75

Known as ‘Superlungs’, Reid turned down the role of frontman in Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple to focus on solo career

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