last year was a reminder that even Rolling Stones are mortal. Watts’s approved successor, American drummer Steve Jordan, is merely 65. He plays on the beat rather than behind it, but brings his own fills to Tumbling Dice and has clearly accustomed himself to the peculiarities of anchoring the Stones’ wayward, ramshackle glory and a catalogue brimming with copper-bottomed classics.
Phenomenal don't even come close to the night
Only a Guardian reader could think that the Rolling Stones are the world's greatest rockers.
Nostalgia is nice but hollow.
I’m surprised that since ‘Brown Sugar’ was withdrawn, ‘Jumping-Jack Flash’ hasn’t been. Its origins come from a local legend in Southover, Lewes, where I live, and where Charlie Watts lived when it was written, based on the story of a local spring-heeled voyeur who was able 1/2