Exile on Main Street
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- In the Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street
…Flash” and the double album Exile on Main Street (1972) remains their creative and iconic peak. Including the studio albums Let It Bleed (1969) and Sticky Fingers (1971) plus the in-concert Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (1970), it gave them the repertoire and image that still defines them and on which…
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Preston
- In Billy Preston
…as Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main Street (1972), as well as on Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Going On (1971). Seemingly everywhere in the early 1970s, Preston charted as a solo artist with the Grammy Award-winning instrumental “Outa-Space” (1972) and reached number one with “Will…
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Richards
- In Keith Richards: The Rolling Stones
… (1971); and the double album Exile on Main Street (1972). Later notable albums—such as Some Girls (1978), Tattoo You (1981), and Voodoo Lounge (1994)—produced additional hit songs (such as “Shattered” [1978] and “Start Me Up” [1981]); however, the quality of the music never matched that of the Rolling Stones’ peak…
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