Max Décharné

They just keep rolling along

Patrick Humphries celebrates the enduring power of songs written in the 1960s that still effortlessly fill a dance floor

issue 27 July 2019

At the end of 1969, teenage Rolling Stones fans reading the new Fab 208 annual could be forgiven for thinking that time wasn’t on their side:

After five years as Britain’s most controversial group, how much more moss can they gather before they call it a day? Will we ever see the world’s most exciting group ‘live’ again, and where do wicked Mick and Co.

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