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“As soon as I pick up the guitar and play that riff, it’s one of the best feelings in the world. You just jump on the riff and it plays you”: The Rolling Stones’ 10 best guitar riffs

As the Stones return with Hackney Diamonds, we asked you for your favorite riffs from Keith Richards and friends. Here they are – plus the story of how they were created

Guitar World

The story of Rory Gallagher's Rolling Stones audition: "All of the music papers were full of speculation. It's a bit like when the Pope dies and you get pictures of all these people who might succeed him"

Stunned by the sudden departure of Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones spread the net far and wide in their search for a suitable replacement. One of the players high up on their list of possibles was Rory Gallagher

MusicRadar

30 guitarists on the guitar heroes who changed their life

Slash, Angus Young, Paul Stanley, Billy Gibbons reveal the guitarists who made them want to play in the first place

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“On a quick trip to interview Paul Reed Smith I was told we were going to the White House so I’d better pack a suit”: Celebrating 500 issues of Guitarist, one of the world’s greatest guitar magazines

From playing Eric Clapton’s Strats to narrowly avoiding knocking out Slash, Guitarist editors past and present share their favourite – and sometimes most embarrassing – memories of working for the esteemed UK publication

Guitar World

Happy 80th birthday Mick Jagger: here's 5 of the Stones' finest moments on record

Nobody has moves like Jagger – follow his evolution in The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll Band

MusicRadar

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

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

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Keith Richards: “They haven't really improved the electric guitar since Les Paul and Leo Fender put their touch to it. Everything else is trying to sound like them”

In this classic interview from 2002, The Human Riff reflects on the key guitars, songs, and sounds from 40 years with The Rolling Stones

Guitar World

Mick Jagger had flings with two of his bandmates, bombshell new book claims

Legendary lothario Mick Jagger has dated some of the most beautiful women in the world but now a new book claims he is a "bisexual icon" who had affairs with two of his bandmates

Daily Mirror

A new doc shines a light on the Rolling Stones as individuals, not just a band

Whether or not you accept the Rolling Stones as "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" — and at this stage of the game there isn't any other group of stature even playing that music — they are certainly the world's most documented. The Beatles, of course, left a considerable…

Los Angeles Times

"The Stone Age": Legendary rock excess

A new book covering 60 years of the Rolling Stones is a no-holds barred study of the band's storied overindulgences

Salon

Rolling Stones recall The Beatles, rifts and drugs in new BBC series on their 60 years

After 60 years on the road, the Rolling Stones have many tales to share, with the band members giving in-depth interviews to the BBC for a new series about the iconic band

Daily Mirror

‘People took so many drugs, they forgot they played on it’ – stars on Exile on Main St, the Rolling Stones’ sprawling masterpiece

Recorded during several hedonistic months in a fabulous Cote d’Azur villa, Exile on Main St is seen as the Stones’ epic, creative peak. As the classic album turns 50, stars tell us how it got their rocks off

The Guardian - UK

The Rolling Stones to play first UK tour since death of Charlie Watts to mark 60 years

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood are set to hit the road this summer with UK gigs to mark their landmark year in music – with a new album coming too

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"We had to fight to put that one out but eventually everybody got it": Keith Richards picks the Rolling Stones album he'd play to a 14-year-old just getting into rock music

Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards on Altamont, writing with Mick Jagger, and his advice for young musicians

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