By Keefer
May 7, 2021
1972 - The Rolling Stones released their classic double-album Exile On Main Street, the second album on their own label. A sprawling, weary double album encompassing rock & roll, blues, soul, and country. Recording for the album began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in the summer of 1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles. A collage of various images, the album's artwork, according to Mick Jagger, reflects the Rolling Stones as "runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world", showcasing "feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future". The album would prove to be one of the band's most influential.