Ron Wood

Mick Taylor helps Rolling Stones recapture glory days

2013-05-14 05:00:00

If you liked the way the Rolling Stones sounded back in the late 1960s and early '70s -- darker and bluesier than more recent conjurings -- you have a chance to hear that signature growl once again. The Stones' 50 & Counting tour, which returns to...

Review: The Rolling Stones rock Staples in first gig of tour

2013-05-04 13:16:00

The first measures heard at� Staples Center as the Rolling Stones began their 26th (give or take) concert in Los Angeles didn’t include Keith Richards’ riffs, Mick Jagger’s sweet falsetto, Ron Wood’s delicate guitar lines or...

Rolling Stones invade Echo Park, perform an hour of classics

2013-04-28 11:24:00

During 50 years of performing, the Rolling Stones have done some peach gigs: They’ve stood before Hells Angels at Altamont, sold out Wembley Stadium and Madison Square Garden, gigged the Palladium in Hollywood, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium...

For Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones on new ground

2013-04-16 06:00:00

The 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' birth in 1962 has had no shortage of commemorative activities: Last year the group was the subject of a retrospective film documentary, a triple CD survey of their recorded output and a handful of celebratory...

Rolling Stones unveil 2013 world tour

2013-04-03 07:57:00

In the better-late-than-never department,� the Rolling Stones on Wednesday announced a 2013 tour, as close to a full-fledged 50th anniversary "50 and Counting" tour as "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band” could muster, opening in May in Los...

Review: Rock legends take over Sandy concert

2012-12-13 05:10:00

Critiquing the broadcast of the 12-12-12 Sandy benefit concert on Wednesday night is like assessing the food at a bake sale: Maybe the muffins are oversalted or the cookies are stale, but that's not the point. The point is charity and drawing attention to...

Rolling Stones may face fine after violating London curfew

2012-11-27 11:53:00

This post has been updated. See note below for details. Maybe the Rolling Stones should work up Chuck Berry’s “Reelin’ and Rockin’ ” -- the proto-rock hit in which the singer keeps checking his watch -- now that the group...

Guns N' Roses reunites minus Axl Rose for Hall of Fame induction

2012-04-15 16:37:54

Album review: Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Mean Old Man'

2010-09-07 16:35:16

Bo Diddley, 79; singer-songwriter's beat marked rock 'n' roll

2008-06-03 00:00:00

Primal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley, who helped cast the sonic template of rock more than 50 years ago with a signature syncopated rhythm that became universally recognized as "the Bo Diddley beat," died Monday. He was 79. Diddley died of heart...

1989: Still the Greatest

1989-10-20 00:00:00

The winner and still champ: the Rolling Stones. On a night when rock 'n' roll's most celebrated survivors played with such passion and fire at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that they looked as though they could go on convincingly for another 10...

Stones Open Tour With Surprise Guests

2013-05-06 05:38:00

There was no doubt the Rolling Stones provided a great deal of satisfaction to the lucky audience members at the band’s 50 and Counting tour kickoff show Friday in Los Angeles, where the group was joined onstage by some very surprising guests. Pop...

The Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts, left, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ron Wood will bring their "50 and Counting" tour to the U.S. starting Friday in Los Angeles.

2013-04-08 22:23:24

Ron Wood, left, and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones perform in Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium June 18, 2003. The show is part of the Rolling Stones' European "Forty Licks Tour."

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Rolling Stones Ron Wood, left, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform at a concert in London on Nov. 29, 2012, marking the iconic British band's 50th anniversary.

2012-12-04 12:22:50