Celebratin'... The Rolling Stones

Before Keith Richards was the model for Captain Jack Sparrow and Mick Jagger was a jetsetting CEO, the Rolling Stones were a rock band. They were the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World when no one else even thought to claim the title.


Here the Stones are at their menacing peak, playing Paris in the wild days of 1967.


At the silliest depths of psychedelic era, this is the original promotional video for "2000 Light Years From Home," off the uneven, but dazzlingly inventive "Their Satanic Majesties Request" album.



It's easy to claim that the band's best works was behind them once Ronnie Wood joined. But the Stones of the 70's and 80's were writing great songs as well as having big hit. One of the bean's most underrated record, "Steel Wheels" came out in 1991. This lovely and sad musing on mortality, "Slipping Away" is one of the record's two Keith songs.

If you think that "everything is on the internet, we dare you find footage from Bill Wyman's mid-70's solo project "Monkey Grip," with high-profile players like Dallas Taylor, Dr. John and Leon Russell. There's a bluegrass song on the disc in which the word "pussy" is sung approximately 400 times. The song is entitled, not surprisingly "Pussy." Here's a link to it on Rhapsody. I you're not a subscriber, you can at least hear a clip and get the gist.