Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones have denied reports they will retire next year with a headline slot at Glastonbury. It was reported "sources" close to the band had indicated that their Glastonbury appearance will be their final date in a "handful" of shows in the UK and USA in 2012. It was also suggested that, as it is part of the group's 50-year anniversary, it will be seen as a good time to call it a day on live performances.

The Rolling Stones will bow out from live performances with a headline slot at next year's Glastonbury festival, according to a tabloid report. The band have never played the Worthy Farm festival but a rumour suggests that they will be heading there for their first and only time next summer, according to the Sunday Mirror.

The Rolling Stones are set to tour later this year after Ronnie Wood revealed he is "keeping October/November free". The band have long been rumoured to be playing live again this year to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Earlier this year, it appeared they would be delaying the celebrations until 2013 after guitarist Keith Richards suggested the band weren't ready to go back on the road yet. However, speaking earlier this week, Wood hinted the Stones could tour before the end of the year, telling The Sun:

The Rolling Stones are to become the subject of a new film based around Robert Greenfield’s 2008 book Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones. According to Deadline.com, Richard Branson will produce the film, which is set in the South of France during summer 1971, when the Stones recorded their album, Exile On Main Street. The last time the Stones exploits were dramatised on film was in 2005, in Stoned, about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the band's former guitarist Brian Jones in 1969.

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has apologised to his bandmates after he was quoted as saying that the band will start recording new material this month. The guitarist said last week that he and his bandmates would be hitting the studio to "throw some ideas around" in preparation for their 50th anniversary celebrations, but has now put paid to those reports and revealed he received a phone call from Mick Jagger demanding to know what was going on.

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has revealed that the band will start recording new material this month. Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the guitarist said he and his bandmates would be hitting the studio to "throw some ideas around" in preparation for their 50th anniversary celebrations. Wood, who said the band were eager "to get the feel again", added: It's like working out for the Olympics or something. You've got to go into training. So we're going to go into training.

THE ROLLING STONES have released a new bootleg from their archives, called LA Friday. In fact recorded on Sunday, July 13, 1975 at the Los Angeles Forum, the show took place during the band’s Tour of the Americas, the first Stones tour featuring then-new guitarist, Ronnie Wood. Remastered by Bob Clearmountain, the album contains Stones’ classics “Honky Tonk Women”, “Gimme Shelter”, “Angie”, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Street Fighting Man”.

The Rolling Stones have delayed their 50th anniversary tour until 2013, according to reports.

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has hinted that the band are "on the verge" of touring this year. Rumours have long circulated that the legendary rock'n'roll band will play shows this year to mark their 50th anniversary, with drummer Charlie Watts the most recent member of the group to talk up the possibility of a half-centenary celebration.

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood has revealed that he turned down the chance to join Led Zeppelin.