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text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.200000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 21.600000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Hand on hip Mick hits mark ... </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 761.650000pt; height: 85.550000pt; top: 558pt; left: 26.750000pt;" > <LAYER top=744px left=35.666667px width=1015.533333px height=114.066667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1015,114" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.350000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 71.792000pt; letter-spacing: -2.630000pt;" >Stones Dance On Waves </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 761.650000pt; height: 15.750000pt; top: 643.550000pt; left: 26.750000pt;" > <LAYER top=858.066667px left=35.666667px width=1015.533333px height=21px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1015,21" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.500000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 76.800000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >by Don Snowden </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 175pt; height: 321.650000pt; top: 659.300000pt; left: 39.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=879.066667px left=52.800000px width=233.333333px height=428.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,233,428" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style12 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 7.200000pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >S<SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >it back and try to imagine the world of rock and roll over the past </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >ten or 15 years without thinking of </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >the Rolling Stones. Just try–and be sure to </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >slip a version of "The Impossible Dream" </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >on the turntable as appropriate background music for your musings. Elvis may have been the catalyst, the Beatles may have brought rock into the cultural mainstream, the Who may have more realistically expressed the hopes and fears of their generation in song, Led Zeppelin may release reams of financial statistics to prove they sell more records and concert tickets; but face it, the Stones remain the essential </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >image of rock and roll. Ian Hunter once </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >said that a picture of Keith Richard at his most wasted was what rock and roll </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt;" >was </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >about, and that's been a difficult </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;" >proposition to argue with for a long </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >time. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 24px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >Most importantly, the Stones <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >popularized on a wide scale the idea of the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >rocker as outlaw, the rebel answering to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >his own set of rules outside of the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >confining regulations governing </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >conventional society. While the Beatles were basking in the limelight as the acceptably clean-cut, nice-guy side of rock and accepted their MBEs (or whatever that award they got from the Queen was), the Stones were the scoundrels, the ruffian </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 175pt; height: 321.650000pt; top: 659.300000pt; left: 225.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=879.066667px left=300.800000px width=233.333333px height=428.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,233,428" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style12 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >fringe getting busted for everything from <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >drugs to pissing on a gas station wall and </SPAN>providing the rock world with one of the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >first drug casualties-martyrs in Brian Jones' </SPAN>swimming pool death by misadventure. With their overt sexuality, undeniable charisma and pure rock and roll power opposed to the Fab Four's emphasis on romantic love and pop craftsmanship, the Stones were the main inspiration behind <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the launching of hundreds of lesser </SPAN>imitators. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 24px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >And the title of "the world's greatest rock and roll band" which was bestowed on them was well earned by the succession of albums starting with <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Beggars Banquet </SPAN>and concluding with <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Exil- On Main Street. </SPAN>Only the Who–with <SPAN style="font-family: Garamond; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt;" >TOIL </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 3.370000pt;" >Live At </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Leeds </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Who's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Next–were even remotely </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >in the same class during that run. By that </SPAN>time, the Stones had melded their roots <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >influences–Chuck Berry, Chicago blues </SPAN>and soul–into a definitive rock style with a menacing, often apocalyptic vision that <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >stood in stark contrast to the acid-</SPAN>drenched idealism and optimism of the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >times. The list of classic songs that came </SPAN>out of that period is too long and well-known to bear repeating and to boot they came up with probably the best-ever live rock and roll album in <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Get Your Ya-Ya's Out. </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 175pt; height: 321.650000pt; top: 659.300000pt; left: 411.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=879.066667px left=548.800000px width=233.333333px height=428.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,233,428" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style12 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >But as a glance at the calendar or a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >listen to the Clash will inform you, it </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >is </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >1977 and times have changed. The Stones' track record over the past five years hasn't come close to sustaining the creative peaks they attained up to </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Exile. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Both </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Goat's </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Head Soup </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >It's Only </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Rock 'N' </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Roll, the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >latter Mick Taylor's swansong with the band, boasted only a few noteworthy songs and </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Black and Blue </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >–although it was their first No. 1 album chart-wise if memory serves–was a forgettable affair that found the Stones following disco and reggae trends rather than initiating new ones. Likewise, their stage presentation featured more and more </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >elaborate theatrical props–unfolding </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >stages and 15 foot inflatable phalluses were a far cry from the backroom bars where they began their career. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 21.600000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Meanwhile, rock had been transformed from being the bastard son of the entertainment world to a multi-billion dollar industry concerned with churning out product, and the life-style the Stones <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >had pioneered had become an established </SPAN>part of the scene. And a whole new generation of kids had grown up in love with rock and roll and felt increasingly alienated from the show-biz trappings and jet-set socializing of big name rock stars. Suddenly, last year, they took matters into </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 175pt; height: 321.650000pt; top: 659.300000pt; left: 597.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=879.066667px left=796.800000px width=233.333333px height=428.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,233,428" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style12 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >their own hands and formed a succession <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of bands dedicated to returning rock and roll to its basic components of energy, commitment and having a good time. Like </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the original members of the British </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >invasion who rebelled against the stagnant </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >pop music of that era, the new wave bands </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >have set themselves up as an alternative to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the existing rock heirarchy. As the most </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >visible symbols of the old order, the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Stones were particularly subject to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >criticism and found themselves out</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >flanked on the outlaw front as well. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Where Jagger as Lucifer had introduced himself as a man of wealth and taste in </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"Sympathy For The Devil" ten years ago, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >now it was Johnny Rotten singing "I am </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the Anti-Christ" in "Anarchy In the U.K." </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and Joe Strummer of the Clash claiming </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style12 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"I don't want to know about what the rich <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >are doing" in "Garageland." And while the Stones were welcomed with open arms at concert halls in England, the new wave bands were encountering official repression </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >that made the Stones' escapades with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >authorities seem like child's play. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >So, in the face of the most serious challenge to their credibility they've faced in their career, the Stones return </SPAN></P> <P class=Style1 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >to the fray with <SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Love You Live. </SPAN>The most intriguing thing surrounding the release of the album to date is the speed with which </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 761.650000pt; height: 502.800000pt; top: 43.850000pt; left: 24.600000pt;" > <LAYER top=58.466667px left=32.800000px width=1015.533333px height=670.400000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1015,670" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <DIV style=" margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 19.533333px; margin-bottom: 1.800000px; margin-left: 16.466667px;" ><CENTER> <IMG src="0342L018_Picture1.jpg" alt="Picture" align="top" height="656" width="979"></CENTER> </DIV> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-top: 6.400000px double #000000 ; width: 739.500000pt; height: 0pt; top: 46.300000pt; left: 31.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=61.733333px left=42.533333px width=986px height=0px CLIP=" 0,0,986,0" class=Box style="" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ; width: 0pt; height: 142.600000pt; top: 348pt; left: 31.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=464.000000px left=42.266667px width=0px height=190.133333px CLIP=" 0,0,0,190" class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ;" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-top: 6.066667px double #000000 ; width: 740.900000pt; height: 0pt; top: 984.250000pt; left: 31.450000pt;" > <LAYER top=1312.333333px left=41.933333px width=987.866667px height=0px CLIP=" 0,0,987,0" class=Box style="" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ; width: 0pt; height: 424.600000pt; top: 561.850000pt; left: 31.450000pt;" > <LAYER top=749.133333px left=41.933333px width=0px height=566.133333px CLIP=" 0,0,0,566" class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ;" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-left: 2.266667px solid #000000 ; width: 0pt; height: 750.750000pt; top: 233.300000pt; left: 34.800000pt;" > <LAYER top=311.066667px left=46.400000px width=0px height=1001px CLIP=" 0,0,0,1001" class=Box style=" border-left: 2.266667px solid #000000 ;" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Boxlistheight style=" width: 1083.866667px; height: 1434.933333px; top: 37.333333px;" > </DIV> </ILAYER> </DIV> <HR NOSHADE size=3 align=center><CENTER> <TABLE width="80%"> <TR> <TD align="left" ></TD> <TD align="right" ></TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER> </BODY></HTML>