The Rolling Stones eventually escaped this disorderly environment to complete things in Los Angeles, emerging with their first double LP. Exile on Main St. was released in May 1972, just before ...

Almost in spite of itself, “Exile on Main St.” has become a classic-rock landmark. The Rolling Stones' 1972 double album never was intended to be the band's masterpiece. Certainly, critics and ...

Always influenced by American music, Exile found the Stones going deeper into country ("Torn and Frayed"), folk ("Sweet Black Angel") and even gospel ("I Just Want to See His Face"). They didn't ...

"Rocks Off," the first track of the Rolling Stones's Exile On Main Street, opens with a scratchy Keith Richards Telecaster riff punctuated by a single Charlie Watts snare hit. Mick Jagger ...

From these, fresh interviews and Robert Greenfield’s “Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones,” we assembled the most debauched stories of sex, drugs and rock ’n ...

Keith Richards remembers the period in the early 1970s when the Rolling Stones were working on “Exile on Main St.” as a fairly down time. The parts he remembers at all, that is. Rolling Stones ...

For most fans, this isn’t even debatable: Exile On Main St. is The Rolling Stones’ best album of all time. Released in 1972, the album is beloved for its odd musicianship, somewhat messy ...

Tell me how this new edition of Exile on Main Street came together ... It was mind-blowing for a Stones fanatic such as myself. I also got very involved with the guys who bootlegged the stuff.

Despite an absence of the band's best-known songs, the sweaty, grimy Exile on Main St. has grown into the Rolling Stones' most universally acclaimed record. Despite dozens of hits, putting ...

And the ratio of greatness to filler is thicker on this than probably any other Stones album. Come to think of it, Exile has got kind ... many great examples of The Rolling Stones' understanding ...

Then four years later, the Rolling Stones installed themselves on the Riviera for the challenging basement recording of "Exile on Main St." At the beginning of the 1970s, UK supertax stood at 83 ...

Gram Parsons doing drugs at the French chateau! – the Rolling Stones’ 1972 double-album “Exile on Main Ryan Adams, Don Was, Cyril Neville did the Rolling Stones' 'Exile on Main St.' right at ...