I Was There by Alan Edwards review – the rock gods’ right-hand man
The ‘godfather of British music PR’ delivers a raw, warm and anecdote-packed account of sometimes bruising encounters with Bowie, McCartney, Jagger et al
June 2024
Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist
Alexis Petridis
Hardy shot to fame singing airy, carefree pop before she took control of her career, hung out with 60s rock aristocracy and became a sophisticated singer-songwriter of rare sensuality and melancholy
May 2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg review – rockn’roll ‘muse’ in the spotlight
Documentary tells the melancholy story of the model and actor at the centre of the 60s music industry but also weirdly peripheral to it
February 2024
The reader interview
Sheryl Crow: ‘AI is so real. It feels like an assault on my spirit’
The American singer-songwriter answers your questions about working with Johnny Cash and the Rolling Stones, what makes her happy – and why she used to hate All I Wanna Do
December 2023
From the Guardian archive
The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet reviewed – archive, 1968
10 December 1968: The Stones’ new album demonstrates their primal power at its greatest strength
November 2023
‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou
His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic
October 2023
Keith Richards: Rolling Stones hologram performance is ‘bound to happen’
Saturday Night Live recap
Saturday Night Live: Bad Bunny fails to make a good impression
The Guardian view on Madonna’s Celebration tour: a showcase for a star with dazzling staying power
‘The more children you have, the more laissez-faire you get’: Mick Jagger on ageing, rage and missing Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds review – if this is the end, they’re going out with a bang
‘She enjoyed her power over men’: memoir reveals anarchic life of Rolling Stones’ muse Anita Pallenberg
The Q&A
PP Arnold: ‘Rod Stewart and I had a close call with the law in the 60s. A nosy landlord let the police into my flat’
September 2023
Mark Kermode on film
Kermode on… Nicolas Roeg: ‘Nothing is what it seems’
Mick Jagger hints at bequeathing back catalogue to charity instead of his children
August 2023
Statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards unveiled in home town of Dartford
Duo met on platform at town’s railway station before joining the Rolling Stones in the early 1960s
July 2023
Symphony for the devil: Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday
The singer who invented the very idea of the frontman has reached his ninth decade. We pick out the Jagger-iest moments of all, from killer lyrics to self-mocking sketches
May 2023
Tina Turner obituary
Rock’n’roll singer whose comeback after her turbulent early career made her one of the great superstars of the 1980s and 90s
TV review
The Stones and Brian Jones review – broken hearts, fatherless kids and Nazi regalia
He gave the Stones edge then drugs got the better of him and they dropped him. In Nick Broomfield’s moving film, he is remembered by the women who knew him intimately but briefly
‘He epitomised the dazzling 60s and then was gone’: the inside story of Rolling Stone Brian Jones
Nick Broomfield’s new documentary recounts the life and death of one of rock’s most tragic characters
