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From Tumbling Dice to Sympathy for the Devil: the Rolling Stones’ 15 greatest tracks ranked

With so many hits to choose from, do you agree with how we've ranked them?

Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2023

Five iconic Mick Jagger looks that prove his inimitable style

Mr Fish! Ossie Clark! Tommy Nutter! Joe Bromley goes inside the frontman’s seminal wardrobe

Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2023

Mick Jagger: five things you might not know about the octogenarian rockstar

“What a drag it is, getting old,” sang a fresh-faced Mick Jagger in 1966. Today, the icon, rebel, knight and ultimate rock and roll reprobate turns 80, with celebrations that will reportedly feature 300 of his closest friends, including bandmates Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, at a lavish party in…

The Week · Jul 26, 2023

Gary Kemp on Mick Jagger: the timeless rock star keeping us all young

Kemp first saw Jagger perform in 1976 and says his toolbox of tricks, unique vocals and generosity to his audience keeps him relevant

Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2023

Mick Jagger: why the Rolling Stones front man was an unlikely queer icon

Whatever his sexual preferences, there’s little doubt that the serpent-hipped singer paved the way for the gender fluidity movement

Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2023

"If you swing too much, it interrupts the head-banging, and that’s the last thing I wanted to do – the head-banging reigns supreme!" In praise of Living Colour's Vivid

Jagger produced them but that sound was all theirs. Inside Living Colour's late 80s classic debut

Guitar World · Jul 23, 2023

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

Metal Hammer · Jul 23, 2023

The great White Lines robbery: How a bassline by art-rockers Liquid Liquid became one of the biggest hip hop anthems of all time

In 1983 Doug Wimbish was asked to recreate a bassline that was tearing up NYC clubs. Transformed into White Lines (Don’t Do It) it became an enormous worldwide hit – but the original creators never received a dime…

Guitar World · Jul 21, 2023

Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts | Behold the ultimate English gentleman

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ personal collections go under the hammer in September, revealing some quirks and that his heart always belonged to jazz

The Hindu · Jul 21, 2023

11 films they tried to bury: from dinner with DiCaprio to Johnny Depp’s snuff story

Louis Chilton walks through the movies that almost never saw the light of day

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2023