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Celebrating The Rolling Stones at 60

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Music: Rock & Indie

As Mick Jagger turns 80, hear the story of his world-famous band.

Celebrating The Rolling Stones at 60: Rolling with The Stones

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It's the story of one of the world’s greatest rock bands!

What made the Rolling Stones the Rolling Stones? Find out from Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie and Bill as they take you through the make up of the world's greatest rock'nroll band!

Six decades ago, when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones and the late Charlie Watts played together for the first time in a scruffy pub in London’s Soho, a global phenomenon was born. Today this incredible rock’n’ roll band are still riding every musical wave and bucking every musical trend by the simple expedient of being themselves.

Introduced by Cerys Matthews and drawn from hours of unheard interviews from the band’s own archives, Rolling with The Stones offers the ultimate look at the elements that make up the Rolling Stones, told intimately and revealingly by the people who were there. Listeners will hear directly from Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and the much missed Charlie Watts .

There’s never been a band like The Rolling Stones, there’ll never be another, and Rolling with The Stones explains why.

Rolling With The Stones is part of the BBC’s Rolling Stones season, with the world exclusive My Life as a Rolling Stone on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer - four hour-long films, each an intimate portrait of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts with newly-filmed interviews with the band members – and a film in tribute to Charlie – plus a cast of stellar contributors, exploring how these individual musical geniuses came together to make the music that has provided the soundtrack to the lives of millions.

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