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...ROLLING STONES have been rocking for 17 years now, ever since Mick Jagger met Keith Richards on the subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only 15 minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students had to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad...
...establish the sound and direction of the band in the '70s. The band has always changed its character when a new guitarist joined the core group of Jagger, Richards, drummer Charlie Watts and basist Bill Wyman--the oeuvre is most easily divided into the Brian Jones years, the Mick Taylor years, and the Ronnie Wood years. The Taylor years were the best, the time when the Stones established themselves as The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the world, and some critics will never stop pointing that out. But there's really no point. The sound the Stones have created...
...Rolling Stones have been rocking for 17 years now, ever since Mick Jagger met Keith Richards on the subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only fifteen minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students ahd to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad...
...establish the sound and direction of the band in the '70s. The band has always changed its character when a new guitarist joined the core group of Jagger, Richards, drummer Charlie Watts and bassist Bill Wyman--the oeuvre is most easily divided into the Brian Jones years, the Mick Taylor years, and the Ronnie Wood years. The Taylor years were the best, the time when the Stones established themselves as The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World, and some critics will never stop pointing that out. But there's really no point. The sound the Stones have created...
...Mick Jagger...