The Rolling Stones

The world has waited 18 years for a Rolling Stones album featuring new and original material and now it's arrived in the form of Hackney Diamonds. William Dart checks it out. Audio

William Dart in lockdown finds personal salvation in a number of live recordings: Louis Baker, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell and Of Montreal. And he ends with a tribute to the heartbeat of The… Audio

Merry Clayton is one of music's most popular backup singers, working with Ray Charles, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay. She talks about losing her legs in a car accident and how her faith and music… Audio, Gallery

Jon Savage's paen to the year 1966 has Jeremy Taylor wondering - was it the best year in music? He'll play tracks from the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and others. Audio

Great Album: The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup. Audio

The Rolling Stones have released a re-issue of their iconic 1973 album Goats Head Soup. This very special 2020 re-issue includes a new stereo mix of the entire album, as well as recording sessions… Video, Audio

Craig Brown's new book, 1, 2, 3, 4: The Beatles In Time is not your bog-standard Beatles' bio. Brown has come up with a fresh take on the Fab Four - and a unearthed a few previously unknown gems… Video, Audio

William Dart looks at the thorny issue of combining rock bands with full symphony orchestras. It can often be dire, but there have been some great successes - one of them, in William's view, happening… Video, Audio

We're focusing on The Rolling Stones with possibly this country's biggest Stones fan, Richard Fox. This year he'll get to his 48th, 49th and 50th Stones' concerts in Europe.  Audio, Gallery

Psychedelic 60s rock-blues supergroup Cream were Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and the late Jack Bruce. Three family members - Jack Bruce's son Malcolm Ginger Baker's son Kofi and Eric Clapton's nephew… Video, Audio, Gallery

William Dart goes to Morocco, spurred on by some fascinating field recordings made by writer and composer Paul Bowles in 1959. As usual he provides his customary eclectic mix with tracks from Bing… Audio

Nick Bollinger revisits – in no particular order - a few of the year’s standout releases. Audio

In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger ponders the eclectic catalogue of Howe Gelb, and wonders whether The Rolling Stones have just made their last great album; and Elliott Childs introduces the… Audio

More than fifty years since they began, The Rolling Stones have made a blues record. Nick Bollinger believes it is the last great Stones album. Video, Audio

American author Joel Selvin has just published his book 'Altamont, The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day' which unveils a lot of new information about the… Video, Audio

In the early 1960s, in a small part of greater Auckland, in the farming community of Clevedon, came the folk indebted band The Clevedonaires, a group chiefly made up of the three Brown siblings -… Audio