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‘He made the dust fly!’ Mick Jagger and others on 100 years of Clifton Chenier, the king of zydeco

Whether playing the Royal Albert Hall or a rooster fight, Chenier’s scorching Creole blues blew minds. As a tribute album is released, starry admirers and family members remember one of history’s great live performers

The Guardian - UK

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring the Rolling Stones, His Lordship, Ashley McBryde and five other good old-fashioned lover boys and girls

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“Mick came in with a song, but it was very Dylan-esque. It was like a ballad. ‘No, no. Let’s rethink. What if we push the beat up a bit?’”: How The Rolling Stones created their Satanic, samba-fuelled masterpiece Sympathy For The Devil

The Stones were hitting a whole new creative peak

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“When the Ozzy thing came around I was so excited, but also doubting myself. Duff McKagan and Chad Smith were like, ‘You can do it. It's everything you love’”: From Pearl Jam to the Stones, the stars have aligned for Andrew Watt – but he owes it to Ozzy

The producer and guitarist explains how ’Sabbath and Ozzy were there for the beginning of his journey – and why he’ll to be there for the end of theirs

Guitar World

Rolling Stones rumoured to be working on new music ahead of UK concerts

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The Independent UK

"They’ve got 13 songs they’re happy with and they are discussing when they can release it”: The Rolling Stones are busy recording a new album in London

No UK or Euro tour this year (or ever?) so how about some new material instead?

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“When I'm listening to Dear Prudence or those other great Beatles songs, you’re aware of what the bass is doing. That doesn’t happen with the Stones”: Why Gene Simmons calls Paul McCartney the king of bassists

His other favourites include Motown legend James Jamerson and — surprise — Ronnie Wood

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“I wanted to come up with a hypnotic riff and had the Rolling Stones’ Miss You in mind”: Jared James Nichols on how Keith Richards and ZZ Top influenced one of his most memorable riffs – and what Eddie Kramer told him about songwriting

The fingerstyle blues-rock phenom shows us how open drone strings and simplicity can be used to write a riff that you can build a whole song around, just as he did on Honey Forgive Me

Guitar World

The four best non-lyrical vocal moments in pop music – from la la las to duh duh duhs

My professional life revolves around the academic study of song lyrics. So it may seem like a strange move to write about how some of the most powerful and emotive vocal moments in popular music have come when singers reject words. But it’s impossible to ignore that sometimes a song…

The Conversation

Soul icon Irma Thomas on the Stones, segregation and survival: ‘Restaurants refused to serve us – we lived on sardines and crackers’

She has endured racism, industry machinations and Hurricane Katrina across her seven decades in music. Now with a new album, and an unlikely boost from Black Mirror, the 84-year-old ‘Soul Queen of New Orleans’ is hitting new heights

The Guardian - UK

“It all started with Ozzy. He and Sharon were the first ones to believe that I could make them a great rock album”: How super-producer Andrew Watt pivoted from Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes to The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne and Iggy Pop

Watt started his production career in the pop sphere, before the Prince of Darkness handpicked him to produce his record

Guitar World

"I was driving, Steven Tyler had a gun and we were on some mission": The scandalous story of Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies

The Alice Cooper Band's outrageous behaviour prompted a statement in Parliament while their songs thrilled a generation

Louder

Ronnie Wood shares key to Rolling Stones' longevity

Ronnie Wood credits the Rolling Stones not "over socialising" with one another during down time as the key to their survival.

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“Mick looked peeved. The Beatles had upstaged him”: When the Beatles stole the Rolling Stones’ thunder and dropped Hey Jude at the Beggars Banquet launch party

It was supposed to be Jagger’s night - but a stealthy Paul McCartney had other ideas…

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“Iggy ran from one side of the stage to the other and head-butted the wall. I was covered in blood, because he’d come up and danced around me”: The Pretty Things singer Phil May’s wild tales of Hendrix, Zeppelin, Iggy Pop and Judy Garland

Late Pretty Things singer Phil May was mates with Hendrix and Page, a rival of the Stones and an accidental drinking buddy of Judy Garland

The Guardian - UK

Drug runs for the Stones, a love triangle with Joni Mitchell: has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?

She managed tours for Queen and Led Zeppelin and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split – but O’Dell is most proud of her legacy as a woman in a macho industry

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Richard Branson saved Keith Richards from gun-toting man

Sir Richard Branson has revealed that he once saved the life of The Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards, when a man with a gun showed up at his house looking for him.

Guitar World

“Jimi was staying at a hotel in Times Square. He had his hair set in pink curlers and we would just talk band drama”: Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews on befriending Hendrix, booking Chuck Berry and the birth of pedal culture

The EHX pioneer is one of the guitar world's most colorful characters. He tells us what happened when Hendrix bought one of the first Big Muffs, how the Rolling Stones got him started in the pedal biz, and why the "overdesigned" POG3 is an unlikely triumph

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"We were just hanging out on the beach and sipping cool libations; Keith Richards was totally living the rock’n’roll lifestyle": Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and Ministry

Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback

The Guardian - UK

Max Romeo was a great social commentator, railing against inequality and discord

The reggae singer best known for War Ina Babylon and Chase the Devil was most productive in the febrile political climate of 1970s Jamaica, but his influence remains undimmed

Homes & Gardens

Mick Jagger's former penthouse has one of the most unique velvet walls I've ever seen – the boho-style home is on the market for $7 million

The musician's former home in Marylebone, London, has hit the market, and it features 4 bedrooms, high ceilings, and incredible history

The Independent UK

Mick Jagger’s £5.5m London party house up for sale for the first time in 30 years

Property was the site of parties, fights, drama and was the backdrop to the success of the Rolling Stones

Evening Standard

Moves like Jagger: The Rolling Stones' former Marylebone party pad for sale for first time in 30 years

For sale for the first time in 30 years, Mick Jagger’s former party pad can be yours for the rock ‘n’ roll price of £5.5 million

Euronews

Croatian singer Marko Perković to break record for most tickets sold for a single concert in history

Have you heard of Marko Perković Thompson? Well, the Croatian musician at the centre of many a fascist controversy will dwarf the likes of The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Tina Turner in July when it comes to ticket sales.

Louder

“Our manager said Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck were in the crowd. I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock

Living Colour are the black rock band who blazed a trail through the 80s and 90s music scene

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