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Even though fame and fortune have allowed the members of The Rolling Stones<\/a> to own properties in different parts of the world, moving between locations at their own discretion, there\u2019s still something quintessentially British about the classic rock band.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not as though artists from other nations are incapable of exuding so much swagger; in fact, it\u2019s something that is universal in rock bands all over the globe. However, there\u2019s something about the manner in which the Stones used to inject it into their own artistry, whether in the music or their presentation, that felt as though it couldn\u2019t possibly have been done by an act from anywhere other than South East England.<\/p>\n It\u2019s almost done in an inexplicable fashion as well, and it\u2019s simply instincts that make that connection between the way the band present themselves and the area they hail from. Not even Manchester bands have what the Stones have, at least not in the same way. Oasis would probably argue<\/a> that they\u2019ve got swagger, and it\u2019s true, but even that doesn\u2019t come across in the same way as what Mick Jagger and Keith Richards delivered. They\u2019ve got a quintessentially Northern feel about their version of it, and similarly, that couldn\u2019t be replicated by a band from the same region as the Stones.<\/p>\n However, as the band got progressively bigger, the greater was their exposure to musical movements from around the world, thus pushing their prerogative to start incorporating elements of them into their own work. They\u2019d experienced something of a dip in fortune after the release of 1973\u2019s Goat\u2019s Head Soup in terms of critical reception, and therefore by the time the end of the \u201870s was rolling around, they began throwing various different ideas around to see what stuck.<\/p>\n Throughout the 1970s, New York City<\/a> had solidified its status as a hotbed of culture, but given how the Stones were so far removed from it as a location, they were never necessarily as indebted to the sounds that were emerging from their underground scene.<\/p>\n That was until 1979, when they recorded Emotional Rescue, an album that was largely created in the city and owed a huge amount to it in terms of what had inspired it. However, despite the association between the band and the \u2018Big Apple\u2019 becoming stronger, Jagger insisted a year after its release that it was never a \u2018New York album\u2019 in the first place.<\/p>\n
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