Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Forty years of "Exile on Main Street"


The seminal rock classic was borne out of a tax protest when the Rolling Stones fled to the south of France to escape their British tax bill. While everybody partied upstairs, the Stones laid down classic tracks in a dank, smelly basement. On NPR this morning, Mick Jagger recalled those vagabond days; they got Keith Richards' recollections yesterday.

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