Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from The Rolling Stones

Bill Wyman thought Rolling Stones would split after Charlie Watts' death

Former Rolling Stones star Bill Wyman has admitted he was "surprised" kept going following the death of drummer Charlie Watts because it would have been a "good time for them" to part ways.

BANG Premier

“I didn’t have a bass guitar, so I had to make one. Unknown to me at the time, I built the first fretless bass, about five years before they came out”: Before the Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman needed a good bass guitar – so he created his own

It's a tale as old as time: three guitarists, a need for a bass player, and no one wants the job. Eventually, Wyman took it on, and built himself a proto-fretless model in the process

Guitar World

The Rolling Stones launch first fragrance

The Rolling Stones now have their own perfume, 'RS No.9’.

BANG Premier

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

"Phil wouldn't be afraid to throw a punch, but it was Eddie who gave people a battering": How Motörhead made their game-changing Overkill album and the anarchic tour that followed

An exclusive extract from Kris Needs' biography Make My Day: The Rock'n'Roll Story Of Eddie Clarke

Metal Hammer

"We've got a new lot from Leighton Buzzard who're going to do their best for you." Keith Richards playing tuba on Sonny and Cher's I Got You Babe while The Rolling Stones' manager professes his love for Mick Jagger is peak '60s TV

How Mick Jagger helped Sonny and Cher get discovered, then wound up miming to their biggest hit on primetime television in 1965

Louder

Redefine your wardrobe with 25% off watches, hats, wallets and more at Nixon

Nixon Watches are offering 25% off on everything online, including pieces inspired by Nirvana and the Rolling Stones. Here’s what you need to buy…

Louder

John Lennon letter inviting Eric Clapton to join supergroup to be auctioned

1971 letter proposes group including Klaus Voormann and Phil Spector to ‘bring back the balls in rock’n’roll’

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“I could see and hear my brothers dying. It was the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone”: The horror of a rock band’s plane crash - by the guitarist who survived it

Six people died, including the band's singer

MusicRadar

From David Bowie to Amy Winehouse: PR trailblazer to talk about 40 years of working with music's biggest stars

Alan Edwards will discuss an extraordinary career that started in the punk scene of Seventies London

Evening Standard

“Dumble told me to bring it to him because he had a mod he could do. It’s the only Dumble Fuzz Face that I’m aware of”: Kenny Wayne Shepherd on unicorn stompboxes, the quest for feel and why budget guitars can make you a better player

Recording at Muscle Shoals is one of those pinch-me moments for Shepherd but then so too is owning one of Hendrix's Uni-Vibe. Here he talks vintage gear, tone philosophy, and onstage disasters

Guitar World

Sam Fender announces three huge stadium headline shows to promote new album ‘People Watching’

In a record booking that overtakes The Rolling Stones, Sam Fender has announced three huge stadium headline shows for next summer in support of his forthcoming new album ‘People Watching’.

BANG Premier

Rolling Stones 'to announce 2025 European Tour with major UK shows' following sold-out US gigs

The legendary band thrilled fans in the US earlier this year with their sold-out Hackney Diamonds tour

Evening Standard

“Jim’s attitude was always: ‘Look out, man, I’m hell-bent on destruction.’ We couldn’t moralise”: How The Doors snatched victory from the jaws of chaos to make the classic Morrison Hotel album

By 1970, Jim Morrison was in an alcoholic spiral and facing jail time – but The Doors still managed to make one of their greatest albums in Morrison Hotel

Louder

Listen to new Elton John and Brandi Carlile duet Never Too Late, inspired by, and written for, the forthcoming Elton John documentary of the same name

Produced by Andrew Watt (Ozzy Osbourne, The Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam), Never Too Late arrives in advance of next month's Disney+ documentary, co-directed by David Furnish, Elton John's husband

Louder

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Metal Hammer

“He was called ‘the Wickedest Man In The World’ by the press – how can you fail to be fascinated by such a character?”: The twisted life and decadent times of Aleister Crowley, metal’s favourite occultist

How Aleister Crowley, aka The Great Beast, influenced generations of metal bands

Louder

At war with their producer. At war with their label. At war with each other: The chaotic making of Van Halen's 1984 - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Alex Van Halen, the Rolling Stones, Opetrh, George Murray, Queen, Vion Hdertzen Brothers, Meat Loaf, Joan Armatrading, Michael Monroe, Rosalie Cunningham, The Sheepdogs, Koyo, The Darkness, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Starbenders and more

Metal Hammer

"I'm still not sure that I can tell you exactly what happened, and I was there": Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the epic story of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion

Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart

Guitar World

“You can only imagine the effect this had on the young Keith Richards and Eric Clapton”: 9 must-hear albums that fueled the British blues guitar boom

The essential records that chart blues music’s epic journey – from its Delta roots through to the masterpiece that launched the heavy rock movement

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

‘Played on over 250 albums’: was Nicky Hopkins the greatest unsung pianist ever?

He helped shape classic songs by the Rolling Stones, The Who and the Beatles but his influence on music has been largely ignored. A new documentary aims to correct that

The Guardian - UK

Wrangling with Abba, risking jail for the Stone Roses … the lawyer behind pop’s big spats

John Kennedy sparred with the Swedes over Mamma Mia! and took on the Rolling Stones for Richard Ashcroft – he tells us why he’s still arguing with Bob Geldof after 40 years

BANG Premier

Bill Nighy: I wanted to be a rock and roll star

Bill Nighy "wanted to be in The Rolling Stones" during his younger years.

The Independent UK

Swing-state priest teaches ancient techniques for surviving today's political turmoil

The Rev. David Peck is an Episcopal priest in the heartland of Pennsylvania, a swing state at the center of the tense presidential election

MusicRadar

“He felt the Rolling Stones got the adulation and respect that ‘The Mop Tops’ didn’t... he would get really angry about it, and call them ‘the Rolling Pebbles’”: Lennon’s '70s confidant tells fascinating story of the ex-Beatle's competitive streak

Elliot Mintz was one of the few people who knew Lennon during the late 70s

Metal Hammer

"That band was dangerous. People died!”: Michael Schenker on his years with UFO, success and escape, and why he didn't join the Rolling Stones

With guests including Axl and Slash, for his new album maverick guitarist Michael Schenker went back to the songs he recorded first with UFO

Louder

"Mick and Keith were totally wealthy, but me, Charlie and Ronnie werescraping by": Bill Wyman reveals the reality of the "multimillionaire" Rolling Stones, says he should have left the band earlier

"Ronnie started to do art to feed his family" - Bill Wyman

1 2 3 4 5

People

Martin Luther King Jr

363 stories

Slash

346 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.