Season 3 of Means Music is back with a new episode that takes an in-depth look at the classic Rolling Stones album , Exile On Main St.
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Opening with some history, host Daryl Easley says: "In 1972, musical paths were changing. The Stones competed, The Beatles broke up in 1970, glam rock was the sound of the charts; Mott goes The Hoople David. " He sings Bowie's words about getting his brother comfortable with the Beatles and the Stones and never really got excited about this revolution. The Stones needed to assert themselves, God, they did it with this album.
Exile on Main Street is perhaps the Rolling Stones' favorite album. The story of its recording, from 1969 in England to its completion in Los Angeles in 1972, is one of the most difficult records in rock music history, because of course the middle part was recorded in Keith's rented basement. The south of France that has become a legend.
Easley goes on to explain the context of the album and where the Stones have been in their career. A lot happened to the Rolling Stones when Exile was on Main Street. , Tenth. And in 1971, when the British tax structure meant the Stones simply couldn't live or record in the UK, the band moved to the French Riviera. Bill Wyman and Jagger lived in Grasse and Charlie Watts in Camaj and Keith Richards in Villafranche-sur-Mer.
Breaking both his Decca contract and Allen Cline's management, the Stones formed their own label, Rolling Stones Records, on the other side of the Atlantic. Although his first label release Sticky Fingers still contained more material old, all eyes were on his next work.
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