After Keith Richards‘ son Marlon let slip that the Rolling Stones are working on what he believes to be a follow-up to 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, that album’s producer, Andrew Watt, confirms he’s been back in the studio with the band. ”I’ve said it before, but it’s like working for Batman,” …
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Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? Today the world salutes the love story of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, who announced their engagement on social media Tuesday, with the wittiest wedding announcement in pop history: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” In the photos, Travis …
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The Rolling Stones’ reverence for blues and country is as well-established as Keith Richards’ penchant for scarves. But you may not immediately associate the band with zydeco, the French-sung, syncopated folk-dance music of Louisiana. Yet, according to Richards, they’re fans of that genre too. “We never just listened to the …
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Two weeks after the Rolling Stones hosted Saturday Night Live in 1978, Lorne Michaels served as a character witness for Keith Richards as the guitarist battled a drug charge in Canada that could’ve put him in jail for life. While Richards’ drug trial in Canada is a well-known chapter in …
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Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut album until he was 33 — he was never young in public. Faithfull was …
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The Rolling Stones have reportedly shelved a forthcoming U.K. and European tour planned for 2025. According to The Times, the rock band has scrapped the idea of hitting the road later this year. The report says that the group — Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood — was presented …
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The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello are celebrating Keith Richards’ 81st birthday with a new cover of the (primarily) Keef-penned Rolling Stones cut “Connection.” Hoffs and Costello’s rendition of the track retains the original 1967 song’s punchy energy, while imbuing it with some more ramshackle jangle, as well as …
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There sure has been a lot of discourse this year about who can play country music. But at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s annual Medallion Ceremony on Sunday, officially inducting this year’s class, the answer was “anyone who showed up.” That included two members of the Rock & Roll …
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Since 1982, when the Rolling Stones launched a European leg of their Tattoo You tour, lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe has gotten both a front-row seat and a backstage look at how Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and the rest of the band work on the road. “The real privilege …
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Over the past couple of decades, the Rolling Stones have looked for any reason to hit the road besides the release of a new album of original songs. They’ve launched tours celebrating their 50th anniversary, reissues of select archival records, the 2016 covers LP Blue & Lonesome, and their 60th …
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