The Rolling Stones were a rhythm and blues band. When singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards wrote a gentle ballad, As Tears Go By, they dismissed it as a "piece of tripe". So Oldham gave it ...

WITH his rock star good looks, lust for women ... “Peaky Blinders” family had a huge funeral for an 18-year-old girl who took her own life. Howard led the cortege of a hearse and eight ...

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the ...

Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Faithfull identified in tabloids as “Naked Girl At Stones ...

I wasn’t thinking of myself as a songwriter, but to have this girl I worshiped explain to me how powerful lyrics can be was ... to be a rock star, while also being a feminine rock star and ...

Her whisky-soaked voice, turned cracked and dusky ... But her resurrection proved - if proof were needed - a rock star's muse can become a fully fledged, respected artist in her own right.

Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Faithfull identified in tabloids as "Naked Girl At Stones ...

Chief reporter Neal Keeling writes about the albums that changed his life from a decade of much under-appreciated ...