The group’s first album of original material in nearly two decades feels genuinely fresh, and features Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and guests Lady Gaga and Paul McCartney in fine form.
In the past 18 years, the Rolling Stones have done most of the things legendary rock bands are expected to do—gross huge amounts of money playing their classics on tour and put out archival releases that expand on their legacy.
The band is among the most dynamic, profitable and durable corporations in the world. Five lessons for CEOs and entrepreneurs.
The greatness of the Rolling Stones—that stunning library of guitar licks and lyrics, the decades of tabloid feuds and imbroglios, the packed stadiums—obscures a more interesting fact: For the past 50-plus years, this band, formed in a London pub in 1962, has been among the most dynamic, profitable and durable corporations in the world.