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In the run-up to Donald Trump’s military “birthday parade,” the event organizers offered $750 to use a famous ballad for Trump’s Army celebration. As the tank-heavy parade rolled into Washington, D.C., the hit 1960s song, “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” boomed in our nation’s capital, providing part of the …

The Rolling Stones have been around so long that Marilyn Monroe was walking the earth, the Beatles were little known outside of their native Liverpool, and ZIP codes were a brand new concept when they played their first show in the summer of 1962. They’ve amassed a ton of history …

Producer/songwriter Andrew Watt went from the pop world to finding himself in the studio with his rock heroes, from the Rolling Stones to Pearl Jam — and now he’s back at the center of pop as executive producer of Lady Gaga‘s upcoming album Mayhem. His career is reaching new heights …

We are living in the golden age of the rock biopic. Until very recently, films like The Doors, Ray, Walk the Line, and Love and Mercy popped up only once every few years. But in roughly the past half-decade alone, we’ve seen Bohemian Rhapsody, Bob Marley: One Love, Back to …

The world may have devolved into a cruel, dark, Hobbesian state of nature in 2024, but it was a pretty amazing time for live rock music. The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band were in stadiums, Pearl Jam, Weezer, David Gilmour, and Olivia Rodrigo headlined arenas, …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The Rolling Stones released their 24th LP, Hackney Diamonds, last year, and the band is celebrating the album’s one-year anniversary with a special-edition re-release on vinyl. NEW RELEASE …

Donald Trump loves music. It does not love him back. But neither fact has ever been more obvious than this week, when he made his DJ debut. Even by his standards, it was a bizarre instant-classic trainwreck. At his Monday town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, he quit taking questions …

The haunting intro on the Rolling Stones‘ “Monkey Man,” the galloping keyboard solo on the Beatles‘ “Revolution,” the piano that anchors the Who‘s “The Song Is Over,” and countless other indelible classic-rock moments were all the work of one man: session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. A classically trained player from Middlesex, …

When we last spoke to singer Chanel Haynes, it was June 2022 and she was still reeling from a surprise call from the Rolling Stones that led to her joining them for “Gimme Shelter” at a show in Milan. Haynes was staring as Tina Turner in a London production of …

The Rolling Stones spent the last three months hitting football stadiums in major cities all across North America on their Hackney Diamonds tour. But it all wrapped up Sunday night at the New Thunder Ridge Nature Arena at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri. That’s a 20,000-seat outdoor amphitheater in …