The Rolling Stones' Most Controversial '70s Album Was Hated at First but Is Now a Rock Masterpiece

Exile on Main St., the Rolling Stones' 1972 double album, faced mixed reviews upon release. Now, over 50 years later, it's ...
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The Rolling Stones Recorded This Classic Album While Living in Exile

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
Salt Lake City Weekly

Missed Masterpieces: Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St.

Twenty or so years ago, while waiting to pick up my oldest daughter from kindergarten, I would sit in the car and listen to the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main St. I knew there was something ...
The Southern Illinoisan

#10. "Exile on Main St." by The Rolling Stones

"A dirty whirl of blues and boogie, the Rolling Stones' 1972 double LP was 'the first grunge record,' guitarist Keith Richards crowed proudly in a 2002 interview. But inside the deliberately dense ...

“Expect to be rejected”: The Rolling Stones album Keith Richards thinks could get Gen Z into rock ‘n’ roll

If Keith Richards could demand all 14-year-olds sit and listen to just one Rolling Stones album, he'd pick this one, claiming it could be a teaching moment.