The Rolling Stones will proceed with their planned tour of the U.S. this fall, the band’s promoter confirmed after the band's drummer Charlie Watts died this week. Longtime Stones associate Steve Jordan is taking his place behind the drum kit, Loudwire reports.
Charlie Watts, longtime drummer of The Rolling Stones, has “passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family” at the age od 80, NME reports. Watts joined The Rolling Stones shortly after their formation in January 1963. He was the only member of the band other than Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to have been featured on all of their studio albums, and also never missed a gig.
Charlie Watts will miss The Rolling Stones’ upcoming US tour after undergoing an unspecified medical procedure, Rolling Stone reports. In his own statement, Watts joked that “for once, my timing has been a little off". Watts' friend and longtime Rolling Stones associate Steve Jordan, who is a member of Keith Richards’ side project X-Pensive Winos, will be filling in on drums. Watts, who recently turned 80, hasn’t missed a Rolling Stones gig since January 1963.
he Rolling Stones climbed the top of the UK album chart with their reissue of 'Goats Head Soup', the second time the album has ruled the Official U.K. Albums Chart. With their latest chart feat, The Stones become the first band in history to land a No. 1 album across six different decades, UK Chart report. The Rolling Stones now have 13 No. 1 albums, including the 1973 original edition of 'Goats Head Soup', placing them level with Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams. Only The Beatles have more career No. 1 albums in the U.K., at 16.
Rolling Stones are opening a flagship store on Carnaby Street in London, the spiritual center of London's fashion world in the swinging ‘60s. Opening Sept. 9, RS No. 9 Carnaby will have all the Stones merch, fashion and merchandise lines, exclusive product and music. The store will play non-stop Stones tunes, the glass floor will feature lyrics, while the fitting rooms are splashed with classic album artwork.
The Rolling Stones have released their first new single in eight years, 'Living In A Ghost Town', a sparse blues track. It references the coronavirus crisis, with Jagger singing: "Life was so beautiful, now we all got locked down / Feel like a ghost, living in a ghost town". The track was initially recorded a year ago in LA but was "finished in lockdown", with slightly revised lyrics.
"The Beatles began their career emulating and covering their classic rock’n’roll heroes but quickly set about exploring all the possibilities of sound, technology, broad-reaching historical revivalism and mad drug music that success made available to them. As a direct result, they invented pretty much every modern pop genre from EDM to metal and might’ve got the full house if they’d ever let Ringo rap... The Stones, on the other hand... popularised blues rock and, um, that’s it" - Mark, My Words argues in his latest column, wrote after Paul McCartney told Howard Stern his band was better. The other reason NME's blogger wrote about it - there aren't any good feuds anymore.
The Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish (covering Bobby Hebb), Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga (covering Charlie Chaplin’s 'Smile'), Elton John, Stevie Wonder (covering Bill Withers), Lizzo (covering Sam Cooke), Kacey Musgraves, The Killers, Kesha, Billie Joe Armstrong, Eddie Vedder, Common, Christine and the Queens, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots (covering Men Without Hats‘ 'Safety Dance'), John Legend, and many other have performed at Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home live stream. Watch them all at Global Citizen's YoutTube.
Six of ten top-grossing tours of 2019 were reunion tours or legacy acts, whose most prolific and successful musical output are years or even decades behind them. The top three earners were Ed Sheeran, Pink, and BTS, but then it travels back to the 20th century - Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Paul McCartney, […]
"If I was going to name a favorite record that has been a favorite for all my life it would probably be either 'Beggars Banquet' or 'Let It Bleed' from the Rolling Stones. Actually, 'Sticky Fingers', 'Let It Bleed', 'Beggars Banquet', 'Exile on Main St.' — those four records in a row are pretty much my favorite music of all time" - Slash said about […]
NASA's InSight robotic lander on Mars captured a little stone rolling across the surface of the red planet. The first thing they did, of course, they gave it a name - Rolling Stones Rock. Robert Downey Jr. took the stage just before the Stones at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Thursday night to […]
"The show was a triumph for the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band, with Mick prancing all over the stadium in prime hip-shaking, troubadour-trapping fight mode" - Rolling Stone says of the first Rolling Stones show in a year, and a first since Mick Jagger underwent surgery in April to replace a heart valve. "Good […]
“We’re trying to pick some ones we haven’t done in recent years, stuff we haven’t done before Most of the time people don’t want too much unusual. People like a little bit unusual" Mick Jagger says in his first interview after the heart surgery. The Rolling Stones had to postpone their summer tour (kicks of June 21 […]
"You sample a song, you get it cleared. The music industry has always been a wild west of rip-off artists, snake oil salesmen and manipulative profiteers but the plagiarism lawyers have beaten some sort of gentlemanly practices into it over the decades. Talent borrows, genius steals, previous genius sends legal letter outlining their cut. There’s […]
“It’s been about a year now,” Richards told Rolling Stone of his decision to cut back on drinking. “I pulled the plug on it. I got fed up with it”, although not completely - he still enjoys “a glass of wine occasionally, and a beer”. His fellow guitarist Ron Wood told that Richards in now “a pleasure to worth […]
