“As Tears Go By” was one of the earliest songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards together. It was requested by their manager, Oldham, in an attempt to venture away from the American Blues ...

Even a band as historically great as The Rolling Stones can sometimes go off-stride now and then. There was once a time in the 60s when the legendary band seemed to be losing their artistic way. A ...

From bluesy standards to cuts from English rockers, revisit three Rolling Stones covers below that are arguably better than ...

The Rolling Stones are often considered one of the best rock and roll bands of all time. That’s interesting, considering they often created music that wasn’t rock. The Rolling Stones dabbled in ...

My book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers tells a familiar story from an unfamiliar vantage. Moving from Chicago blues to Phil Spector’s early-1960s confections to the British ...

When it comes to rock ‘n’ roll lore, few questions are as popular as whether Bob Dylan’s song “Like A Rolling Stone” inspired the name of the legendary band, The Rolling Stones. It feels like a ...

The Rolling Stones’ reverence for blues and country is as well-established as Keith Richards’ penchant for scarves. But you may not immediately associate the band with zydeco, the French-sung, ...