The Rolling Stones will release a new album later this year. Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney will also be there.
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It's a collaboration between the giants: Paul McCartney will be heard as bassist on the next Rolling Stones album. As the British news agency PA reported on Wednesday, the 80-year-old recorded the bass part for one of the songs. Stones frontman Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards meanwhile mixed other songs.
Contrary to other reports, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is not on the album, a Stones spokesman said.
< p>The new record, which has yet to be named, is set to be released this year. According to the PA, Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021, can still be heard on about half of the songs. The other songs were recorded with drummer Steve Jordan, who has been with the group since Watts' death.
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The Stones are celebrating their 60th anniversary
Four teenagers took the stage on July 2, 1962 at the Marquee Club on London's Oxford Street in front of around 100 people. Before that they only played in garages. They came in as a replacement for Alexis Korner because the blues musician had canceled the agreed concert due to TV recordings taking place at the same time. Since then, the Rolling Stones have had an exemplary career.
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The beginnings: Rhythm & Blues
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have known each other since school. In 1962 they founded the Rolling Stones. Also present at the first concert in London: Tony Chapman on drums, Dick Taylor on bass and Ian Stewart on piano. Shortly thereafter, there is a reshuffle. On the first album “The Rolling Stones” (1964) Brian Jones plays second guitar, Bill Wyman plays bass and Charlie Watts plays drums.
Bad Boy Band
In 1964, the Beatles with their feel-good Songs already on the way to a world career. Andrew Loog Oldham, then manager of the Stones, wants to create a counterpoint to the Fab Four with the “Rolling Stones”. They should make a name for themselves as the “bad boys” of the music scene. On their first TV appearance on the show “Ready Steady Go” the boys still seem pretty good.
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A year later, the Rolling Stones come to Westphalia : They will play their first German concert on September 11th in the rather conservative Münster. The police struggle to keep the freaking fans out. However, most Münster residents are rather suspicious of the Stones. The Westphalians are still lucky – in Berlin the fans are practically dismantling the Waldbühne.
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Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll
No other 1960s rock band fits that stereotype more than the Stones. The combination of rock music, free love and drug consumption is simply part of it. Unfortunately, Stones guitarist Brian Jones is sick with drugs. In June 1969 he therefore left the band. A short time later, he mysteriously drowns in his swimming pool.
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Brilliant idea
In May 1965 the stones are on tour in the USA for the third time. Again they mainly play cover versions of US hits. You still don't have enough numbers of your own. One night, Keith thinks of a tune and picks it out on his guitar. He finds them so magical that he records them and plays them to Mick: The hook line of their first world hit “Satisfaction” is born.
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Shock in Altamont
The “Altamont Free Concert”, initiated by the Stones management, is intended to be a counter-event to Woodstock. Alongside the Stones on stage: Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jefferson Airplane. When the Stones perform, there is a scuffle in the crowd. The concert had to be interrupted again and again. The increasingly aggressive Hells Angels act as watchdogs.
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The end of the hippie era
The Stones are playing “Under My Thumb” when a man collapses in front of the stage. A Hells Angel stabbed him multiple times in the back. The band stands on stage, stunned. Later she plays the concert to the end. “If Woodstock was the dream,” British photographer Eamon McCabe later says, “then Altamont was the nightmare.” The hippie era is finally over on December 6th, 1969.
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1973 still with Mick Taylor (2nd from left)
The 70's bring the Stones a lot of trouble. Mainly because of tax payments. The band flees to France, where they record “Exile On Main St” in 1972, which many consider to be the best Stones record ever. In 1974 guitarist Mick Taylor left and was replaced by Ron Wood.
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The bad 1970s
Outwardly they stick to rock'n'roll, but internally it's boiling. Keith Richards' drug addiction gets him arrested and into rehab, Mick Jagger has a mind of his own. Musically, the rebels have defected to the establishment – jumping on multiple bandwagons and dabbling in other genres like funk (Miss You, 1978) and even disco (Emotional Rescue, 1980).
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Brilliant live band
Whatever happened between the band members, in the early 1980s they pulled themselves together and did what they do best: play live. As a band, they are in such high demand that they easily fill entire football stadiums – including in Germany in 1982, where they played legendary shows that everyone who saw back then is still talking about.
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Life and raw
Even after founding member Bill Wyman left in 1993, the Stones just carried on and slipped into the next millennium. Again and again there is talk of farewell tours, but again and again it is also said: one tour is still possible. No matter how old they are – their live gigs are a guarantee of their success. For example, in 2003 they rocked Moscow.
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The Stones are all over the world. In 2006, the Japanese fans are happy about the concert in the city of Saitama, north of Tokyo. A little later the Stones play in the Serbian capital Belgrade. The band's name was probably inspired by Muddy Waters' blues hit “Mannish Boy”. There is a line of text “I'm a rolling stone” – a “bumper”.
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One man, one face
Mick Jagger isn't the Stones' only character. But he celebrates it the most. Even at the age of 78, he pulls the wildest grimaces, scurries across the stage like a crazy clockwork man with unbridled energy, even as a great-grandfather he is not above swinging his hips and has shaped the stage design of the Rolling Stones as front man for 60 years now.
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Charlie Watts dies
And then Charlie Watts gets cancer. He is said to have recovered after radiation therapy and will continue to tour with the Stones for many years to come. He sat on the drums for the last time in August 2019 as part of the “No Filter” tour, two years later he died in hospital at the age of 80. The Stones have lost their haven, their backbone.
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The new man on the drums
Steve Jordan just wanted to fill in for a few gigs and finish the “No Filter” tour with the Stones. But now he is still sitting in the engine room of the longest-serving rock band. At 65, he is the chick of the band and significantly lowers the average age. The new drummer is also indispensable on the Sixty European tour.
Although the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were often portrayed as rivals as the most celebrated British bands of their day, the musicians have collaborated on numerous occasions. In 1968, for example, John Lennon performed as part of a “supergroup” called The Dirty Mac on the show “Rolling Stone's Rock and Roll Circus”. Stones founding member Brian Jones played guitar on the Beatles song “You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)”.
McCartney had the song “I Wanna Be Your Man”. and John Lennon once written for the Stones, later recorded by the Beatles.
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