RECORDINGS | OPINION: Rolling Stones “Black and Blue” — revisiting the album that marked their mid-’70s identity crisis

Once dismissed as the Stones’ first “bad” record, “Black and Blue” now plays like a document of mid-’70s uncertainty — part ...

Over 50 Years Later, This No. 1 Rolling Stones Album is Still Their Greatest of All Time

Over 50 years later, Sticky Fingers remains arguably the Rolling Stones’ greatest No. 1 album, a defining peak in their ...

If only Black and Blue had been the first Rolling Stones album to feature Rory Gallagher

Black and Blue is far from the abomination it was perceived to be in 1976, with or without the Irish guitarist ...
Variety

Rolling Stones Announce ‘Hackney Diamonds,’ First Studio Album in 18 Years

After years of speculation and a remarkably unsubtle teaser campaign that saw the group’s iconic logo projected onto iconic structures in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and other major cites, ...
Iowa Public Radio

Revisiting Keith Richards on 'Hackney Diamonds', The Stones' first album in 18 years

For the Rolling Stones, the party's never over. They returned in 2023 with "Hackney Diamonds," their first album of original material in 18 years. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHOLE WIDE WORLD") THE ROLLING ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 2023, The Rolling Stones Were at No. 1 With the “Difficult” Album That Was the First of Its Kind in 20 Years

It would be easy to assume that a band older than most Top 40 artists have been alive (sometimes by two or three times) would grow stale in their later years, but The Rolling Stones proved this ...
American Songwriter

The Rolling Stones Album Keith Richards Says Any Non-Stones Fan Should Start With

With over 20 studio albums under their belts, the Rolling Stones can’t guarantee which record of theirs will be the first one a new fan hears, but Keith Richards has some ideas for which record that ...