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It\u2019s going to be a cold day in hell before Keith Richards<\/a> ever decides to walk away from The Rolling Stones. <\/p>\n The jury\u2019s still out on whether the man is actually immortal, but until the fateful day that he does cross over to the other side, chances are he will be more than happy to strum his guitar with the rest of his musical family behind him every time they take to the stage. After all, that\u2019s what all rock stars are supposed to do, but that didn\u2019t mean every single album caught them in the best light when they first came out.\u00a0<\/p>\n Granted, The Stones\u2019 track record usually comes down to certain periods of their sound. The first era of them being a by-the-numbers blues outfit was great for what it was, but once they followed The Beatles\u2019 lead, things started to sound a lot more dangerous. And while the Fab Four didn\u2019t give the model for where to go after 1970, they had already settled into their role as one of the greatest blues bands the world had ever seen once they reached records like Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. <\/p>\n But the era of the true classics tends to stall when you get to a record like Goats Head Soup. Not everything is terrible after that by any means, but when you look at the songs that turned up on a record like Some Girls, it was clear that not everyone was on the same page. Richards wasn\u2019t necessarily the first person to suggest doing a disco song like \u2018Miss You\u2019, nor did Mick Jagger want to go back to country music like on \u2018Far Away Eyes\u2019<\/a>, but that\u2019s the beauty of their partnership as well.<\/p>\n Every band needs those two competing forces working off each other, just like Lennon and McCartney or Plant and Page, but becoming the longest-running rock and roll band didn\u2019t come without some hiccups. Jagger may have wanted to stay fashionable whenever he could, but whereas Richards could compromise in places, it made sense that the frontman ultimately wanted to call his own shots after a while.<\/p>\n Then again, he probably could have made a better argument than simply making a solo album without the rest of the band. The Stones were such a brotherhood by the time that they reached the 1980s, but even if Jagger found another outlet on his solo album She\u2019s the Boss, Richards felt like the band were practically dead in the water by the time Jagger announced his tour for the album Primitive Cool. <\/p>\n