{"id":29739,"date":"2024-06-17T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-17-1972-the-rolling-stones-hit-1-with-exile-on-main-st\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:02:43","slug":"on-this-day-june-17-1972-the-rolling-stones-hit-1-with-exile-on-main-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-17-1972-the-rolling-stones-hit-1-with-exile-on-main-st\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 17, 1972: The Rolling Stones hit #1 with &#8216;Exile on Main St.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-17\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 17, 1972 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> hit #1 with their double album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Exile on Main St<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">., which went on to spend four weeks on top of the chart.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recorded mostly in a villa in the South of France, where the band had moved to escape paying U.K. taxes, the album featured such classics as \u201cHappy\u201d featuring\u00a0<strong>Keith Richards\u00a0<\/strong>on vocals, \u201cTumbling Dice,\u201d \u201cRocks Off,\u201d \u201cRip This Joint\u201d and \u201cAll Down the Line.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album was one of nine #1 albums The Stones have had over the course of their career. Others include 1965\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Out of Our Heads<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1971\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Sticky Fingers<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1973\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Goats Head Soup<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1974\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s Only Rock and Roll<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1976\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Black and Blue<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1978\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Some Girls<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, 1980\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Emotional Rescue<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> and 1981\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tattoo You<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In October, The Stones released <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Hackney Diamonds<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, their first album of new material in 18 years. It debuted at #3 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> 200 Album chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 17, 1972 &#8230; The Rolling Stones hit #1 with their double album\u00a0Exile on Main St., which went on to spend four weeks on top of the chart.\u00a0 Recorded mostly in a villa in the South of France, where the band had moved to escape paying U.K.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-17-1972-the-rolling-stones-hit-1-with-exile-on-main-st\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}