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 …
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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 …
Read More »Andrew Watt Defends Rolling Stones' Grammy Win, Previews Lady Gaga's 'Mayhem'
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 …
Read More »5 Music Biopics We'd Like to See After 'A Complete Unknown'
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 …
Read More »The 10 Best Rock Concerts of 2024
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, …
Read More »The Rolling Stones Unveil Special-Edition Anniversary Release of 'Hackney Diamonds' LP
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 …
Read More »Worst DJ Ever: How Donald Trump Threw the Most Disastrous Dance Party in American Political History
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 …
Read More »He Played with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Who — A New Documentary Tells His Story
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, …
Read More »Rolling Stones Background Singer Chanel Haynes on Her First Tour: 'I Was Living in My Dream'
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 …
Read More »Watch the Rolling Stones Wrap Up 2024 Tour at a Remote Amphitheater in the Ozarks
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 …
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