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The Story Behind Johnny Cash’s Only Rolling Stones Cover, and One of the Final Songs Recorded With Brian Jones

Recorded in May 1968, the song became one of Brian Jones final major contributions to the Rolling Stones before his death in 1969. The post

The Story Behind Johnny Cash’s Only Rolling Stones Cover, and One of the Final Songs Recorded With Brian Jones

Recorded in May 1968, the song became one of Brian Jones final major contributions to the Rolling Stones before his death in 1969. The post

How George Jones’ Band Helped Inspire This No. 1 Rolling Stones Hit From 1968

The Rolling Stones had George Jones to thank for the distinctive sound of the British rock 'n' roller's 1968 non-album No. 1 single. The post

On This Day in 1968, the Rolling Stones Played Their Final Show With Their Founding Guitarist

Sonny Rollins, Sax Legend Who Worked With the Stones, Dead at 95

Acclaimed saxophonist played on three 'Tattoo You' songs, including "Waiting on a Friend." Continue reading…

The Rolling Stones, Very Early and Very Late

Listen to their 1963 debut through two tunes released just last week.

"She said, 'Mick wants to speak to you.' It was Jagger asking if I was free to tour with the Stones." He produced the Se...

The cult singer and guitarist whose fingerprints are all over British music

Jon Bates: Experiencing pivotal moments in music history

This week, Jonesy and Jon Bates explore the profound impact of music on personal experiences, the cultural shifts of the 1960s, and the journey of navigating a career in the music...

Snoop Dogg Joins Forces with Jagger & Richards for New Band: The Rolling Stoned

In what industry insiders are already calling the most unexpected supergroup formation since The Travelling Wilburys, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.—known to the world as Snoop Dogg—h...

Wayne Perkins, Guitarist to the Stars, Dies at 74

Mr. Perkins worked with Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell and many others, almost joined the Rolling Stones and turned down an offer from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

How John Coltrane Changed Rock Music: Beyond Psychedelia

Something happened to me Something oh so groovy Something happened to me yesterday  These lines are from The Rolling Stones's 1967 song, "Something Happened To Me Yesterday." Altho...

5 Amazing Album Openers From The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones have created an i...

5 Amazing Album Openers From The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones have created an i...

60 Years Ago: Why Rolling Stones Struggled With 'Paint It Black'

"That song," manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham later admitted, "was going nowhere." Continue reading…

On the Charts 50 Years Ago, The Rolling Stones Hit No. 1 in the US With Their First Album Without Mick Taylor in Years

On the Charts 50 Years Ago, The Rolling Stones Hit No. 1 in the US With Their First Album Without Mick Taylor in Years

How One of the Who's First Managers Met a Tragic End

It was Kit Lambert, who died on April 7, 1981 at 45 years old from a luckless accident, who first encouraged Pete Townshend to write his own songs in the early '60s. Continue read...

“I’d be there with bass pedals, a triple-neck guitar and keyboards, and Robert Plant would ask, ‘Can you sing, as well?’...

Armed with years of experience as a session bassist and arranger – having worked with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and the Rolling Stones – John Paul Jones could do it all

“Paul Kossoff had gotten addicted to these heavy sedatives. Some nights he wasn’t functioning”: This cult British singer...

Jess Roden is one of British rock’s best kept secrets

Mick Jagger Allegedly Slept With Keith Richards’ GF on Camera During Movie

The Rolling Stones have settled into life as elder statesmen of rock ‘n’ roll, but they once led very wild lives. In his exhaustive new biography of the band, journalist Bob Spitz...

The 1971 Fan-Favorite Song That Keith Richards Never Wanted Mick Jagger To Perform

There was...

"I said, Well, while you’re here then, you better go and do something!" Mick Jagger explains how Robert Smith from The C...

Who had 'Robert Smith to appear on new Rolling Stone album' on their 2026 bingo card? No-one, not even the Rolling Stones

Ronnie Wood opens up about tribute to Brian Wilson on The Rolling Stones’ ‘Foreign Tongues’: “The feeling came out throu...

He played a heartfelt guitar solo after hearing of the passing, which will feature on a song called ‘Back In Your Life’ The post Ronnie Wood opens up about tribute to Brian Wilson...

Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s Saxophone Colossus and Greatest Improvisor, Dead at 95

Alongside his own pioneering albums as band leader, Rollins also recorded with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and the Rolling Stones, contributing the sax solo to "Waiting on a Frie...