The Stones keep on rolling along…
When the nascent Rolling Stones began performing around London in 1962, the notion that a rock ’n’ roll band would last anything remotely like 50 years was not just absurd – it was inconceivable.
‘I didn’t expect to last until 50 myself, let alone with the Stones,’ Keith Richards said. ‘It’s incredible, really. In that sense, we’re still living on borrowed time.’
Mick Jagger takes a more expansive view of its ongoing evolution.
‘You have to put yourself back into that time,’ he says about those early days in London, when he, Richards and guitarist Brian Jones shared a legendarily squalid flat at 102 Edith Grove in Chelsea (Richards described the place as
