Music How Rock and Roll Became White And how the Rolling Stones, a band in love with black music, helped lead the way to rock’s segregated future.

Sketched in pen on a million different school notebooks, and gracing T-shirts, denim jackets, and bad tattoos for more than 30 years, it's as big part of the band's legacy as "Back in Black." ...

By Joobin Bekhrad It began life as a tiny emblem, something to adorn a 45 r.p.m. single or the band’s letterhead ... belief, the logo, originally created in black and white and used to create ...

Pavement, a group that the Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau, in 1997, called “the finest rock band of the nineties—by critical acclamation,” embodied this trajectory.

Black blues artists such as Muddy Waters and B.B. King inspired elite white acts, like the Stones, Cream and Led Zeppelin. In the late ‘80s, rock stardom was completely dominated by hammered ...

Every inch the former business student that he was, Jagger and the band copyrighted the logo, giving Pasche just L50 for the task, with a bonus of L200 a couple of years later as a nod to its success.