Rolling Stones

It’s 1978 and the Rolling Stones have just left the soggy vagueness of their mid-70s career behind, only to come across punk and new wave.

Drummer says 'it would be great' if the band could tour next year.

“Sometimes I feel that my whole career with The Creation, Jeff Beck and The Faces was one long audition to join The Rolling Stones,” writes Ronnie Wood, in his introduction to our latest Ultimate Music Guide.

'Not even the seemingly immortal Keith Richards can stop the march of time,' says friend

Fired up by disco and punk, Jagger’s swagger returns, with a disc of unreleased songs...Wrongly or rightly, the allegations against the Stones came thick and fast in 1977. They’d lost their edge. They’d become gluttonised, lazy, too rich and bored to care. Some of them had the temerity to be in their mid-thirties (NME called them “The Strolling Bones”). The urgent sound of punk had made their jet-set rock seem passé.

Howlin' Wolf guitarist has passed away aged 80

'Anything is possible,' says Jagger, as pair plot celebration bash

Rumours of a 50th anniversary show reignite as band prepare to hit the capital

Singer reveals that he's having fun not being a lone frontman

We're live in Texas, 1978 folks...