Label Didn't Want Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street

Richards tells The Independent: "We had to fight the record company about that. We insisted it was double. It was very different: there were no hit singles. It was an album by itself."

Although early parts of the masterpiece were recorded in the UK, the majority of the work was done in the cellar of Nellcote, a French villa Richards had hired � a lucky accident which came about as a result of the Stones being hounded out of their home country. - - Keef explains here

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