In praise of … Exile on Main Street | Editorial

To make this album, the tax-exile Stones, plus wives, girlfriends, drug dealers and hangers-on, moved to the south of FranceThe cliched thing to say about Exile on Main Street, the 1971 album from the Rolling Stones that has just been reissued and gone to No 1, is that it is timeless. Which is plain wrong. Classic? Yes. The best Stones album? Easily: Mick 'n' Keef's albums usually weren't up to snuff. But timeless? It is hard to think of a record more of its time than Exile – and one less like...

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