78 DOOM AND GLOOM

The Rolling Stones

By 2012, nothing more was expected from the Rolling Stones, a band with nothing left to prove, long settled into the lap-of-honour business, with a glittering back catalogue from which their set-list wrote itself. Doom And Gloom pricked up the planet’s ears, not just because Jagger, Richards, Wood and Watts in a studio is always an event, but also because it was so damn good. Strutting like a peak-period peacock, all insolent vocals and last-gang-in-town hand claps, it could have fallen through a wormhole from ’69. HY

From: GRRR!, 2012