Mick Jagger briefly waded into Louisiana politics, taking a verbal jab at the state’s conservative governor, as The Rolling Stones performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards expressed his distaste for “cheap” pop music and rap, explaining, “I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me.”
LONDON — A rock’n’roll juggernaut was descending Wednesday on London’s Hackney district, where The Rolling Stones are set to unveil their new album, “Hackney Diamonds.”
The New York Times opinion section has run a column advocating for classic rock songs like Don McLean’s “American Pie” to be reconsidered and maybe even “toppled” like historic Confederate statues, arguing that reevaluating beloved songs will help create a world that is “inclusive and more just.”
The Rolling Stones announced Tuesday the band will stop performing the hit song Brown Sugar, amid accusations the 50-year-old classic is linked to the subjugation of slaves.
LONDON (AP) — Charlie Watts, the self-effacing and unshakeable Rolling Stones drummer who helped anchor one of rock’s greatest rhythms sections and used his “day job” to support his enduring love of jazz, has died, according to his publicist. He was 80.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival set down for the fall has been canceled, with organizers explaining Sunday the “ongoing public health emergency” driven by the coronavirus epidemic is to blame.
This year, President Donald Trump was confronted by more than a dozen musicians and bands with demands that he stop using their music at his rallies and events.
LOS ANGELES — From the beloved opening lines of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” to the rousing, children’s-choir conclusion of the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies have been filled with classic songs whose authors and their heirs loudly reject him and his politics.
Trump campaign rallies typically conclude with the Rolling Stones’ classic 1969 song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” But that rousing musical coda may soon be coming to an end.
The Rolling Stones achieved another milestone in their decades-spanning rock music career by earning their first no. 1 hit on iTunes with the coronavirus-era song, “Living in a Ghost Town.”
London — British singer Marianne Faithfull has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated in hospital, her publicists said on Saturday.
At the Green Bay Trump rally, I witnessed a room filled with intelligent, patriotic, and engaged citizens. Every one of them wanted to know their assignment in taking back America.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones will be rolling through the United States next year.
Guitarist Keith Richards told the far-left BBC that in 1989 he was so determined to “get rid of” Donald Trump, he pulled a knife on him.
Anita Pallenberg, paramour of numerous Rolling Stones, died this week. She was either 75 or 73, a sixth Stone or a glorified groupie, and the muse for a great band or the cause of its near destruction.
The California taxman wants add to taxes on space travel on top of taxing land, buildings, businesses, income, transportation and the air we breathe.
Mick Jagger, the legendary front man for the Rolling Stones, hinted Wednesday that he might perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, after Trump closed out his victory speech with the song: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
You can’t always get what you want, but it you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.
The British rock royalty will release Blue & Lonesome, a 12-song album full of blues classics, on December 2, the band announced Thursday.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was warned Wednesday to stop playing Rolling Stones music on the campaign trail.
Cuban dissident artists Gorki Águila y Lia Villares staged a counter-concert to the Rolling Stones’s historic performance in Havana on Friday. Unlike the Rolling Stones concert, the Cuban punk rockers were entirely silent.
