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THE ROLLING STONES

Sympathy for the old devils

ock up your granddaughters, shake your replacement hip, The Rolling Stones are back! At a press conference in East London, the world’s greatest and most enduring rock’n’roll band announced, their first new album proper in nearly 20 years. The three surviving members of the Stones’ classic line-up – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – were all there, dressed like a trio of peacocking mobsters. The memory of

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