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Rolling Stones

Author: FRANK HOFFMANN

Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones have been around for so long—they formed in mid-1962—and have produced such a distinguished body of work that it is easy to forget their early—and greatest—music was produced in the shadow of other musicians: initially, the American electric blues masters of the 1950s (most notably, Chess artists such as Chuck Berry, Willie Dixon, and Muddy Waters) and, as Swinging London pop icons pursuing the latest fashion, that other, more innovative—and beloved—British…

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