Apr 23: Release Sticky Fingers LP, the first on Rolling Stones Records. Cover design, complete with adjustable zip, is by Andy Warhol. Decca releases Stone Age LP.

Jul 31: Premiere of film Gimme Shelter at the Rialto Cinema in London.

Aug 20: Release on Rolling Stones label of the Howlin' Wolf session in London, which includes Bill and Charlie.

Aug 27: Decca Records releases Gimme Shelter LP. One side of the album features a collection of oldies, the other side includes live tracks from a performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sep 23: Mick first meets budding socialite Bianca Perez Morena de Macias at a party in Paris' George V hotel. 

Apr 12: Release Exile On Main Street LP.

Apr 14: Release "Tumblin' Dice"/"Sweet Black Angel."
Apr 17: Keith and Anita Pallenberg have a daughter named Dandelion (later the more conventional Angela).

May 29: "Brown Sugar" hits Number One on the U.S. charts.

Jun 30 - Jul 26: Seventh American/Canadian tour opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, and includes stops in San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque, Washington, DC, Montreal, and New York.

Jun 30: Decca Records releases a maxi single--"Street Fighting Man"/"Surprise"/"Everybody Needs Somebody To Love."

July: At a Montreal show, one of the equipment trucks is dynamited by French seperatists. While bomb squads search the stage area for three other charges, reportedly hidden there, 3,000 victims of ticket forgers riot out inthe street.

Dec 2: Police in Nice, France issue warrants for Keith and Anita. They are charged with heroin offenses.

Dec 23: A massive earthquake rocks Managua, Nicaragua. Mick and Bianca rush to the city to find Bianca's missing parents. They are found three days later. 

Jan 18: LA Forum -- the Rolling Stones hold a concert in aid of the earthquake victims of Nicaragua.

Apr 29: Decca releases old recording, "Sad Day."
Aug: Controversy arises surrounding the track entitled "Starfucker" on Goat's Head album, whose lyrics mention vaginal deodorant and "giving head to Steve Mcqueen." The title is changed to "Star Star" and an assurance is obtained from Steve Mcqueen that he will not sue Atlantic for libel. BBC bans the song on all wavelengths.

Aug 20: Release "Angie"/"Silver Train."

Aug 31: Release Goat's Head Soup LP.

Sep 1 - Oct 19: European tour begins at the Stadthalle, Vienna. Yuri Kurinoff, a representative of the Soviet Union's Ministry of Culture, attends the show. Other stops include, Cologne, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Berne, Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Gottenburg, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Brussels, and Berlin

Jan : At Aylesbury Crown Court, Keith Richard is found guilty of posessing the cocaine snorter discovered in his Bentley after he had crashed it in Buckinghamshire the previous September.

Jan 12: "Brown Sugar"/"Bitch"/"Let It Rock" released as one of 208 Atlantic Gold Series.
Apr 14: American premiere of the film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones.

Jun: Keith Richards collaborates with Ronnie Wood for Wood's solo LP. Mick features on Billy Preston's album.

Jul 26: Release of It's Only Rock'N'Roll LP. The title track started life in Ronnie Wood's South London home studio with David Bowie on backing vocals and The Faces' Kenny Jones on drums.

Dec 14: Mick Taylor announces he is leaving the Rolling Stones.

Dec 28: London Records, former Stones label in the U.S., gears up a sales drive to celebrate the band's 10-year anniversary. Some 17 Stones albums will be pushed out under the slogan "World's Greatest Rock'N'Roll Band - A London Recording Where It All Began."

Apr 14: Mick Jagger confirms that Ron Wood will be accompanying the Rolling Stones when they tour North and South America.

Jun 1 - Aug 2: The Rolling Stones start their Tour of the Americas in Baton Rouge, LA. Other cities they played in included Kansas City, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Memphis, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and Jacksonville.

Sep: After much speculation and a string of recording sessions-cum-auditions in Munich which eventually give birth to the Black and Blue album, the Stones announce Mick Taylor's replacement - Ronnie Wood! (Candidates who didn't get past the jamming phase include Jeff Beck, Peter Frampton, and Rory Gallagher). Keith admits he nearly asked him to join back when Brian left.

Nov: Records by the Rolling Stones, Elton John and others were burned after officials of a Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Florida described the music as immoral and "appealing to the flesh."

Feb: Bill Wyman's solo LP, Stone Alone is released on Rolling Stones Records.

Apr 20: Black and Blue album released worldwide.
Apr 20: "Fool To Cry"/"Crazy Mama" released.

May 1: Stones tape four promo videos at Ostenhalle in Kiel: "Fool To Cry", "Crazy Mama", "Hot Stuff", and "Hey Negrita".

Jun: The group tour and appear straddling an unfolding lotus stage complete with giant inflatable penis and Tarzan rope for Mick.

Feb: Keith and Anita Pallenberg are busted in Toronto, where the Stones were playing low-key dates at the El Mocambo club.
Sep 15: Love You Live is released. The cover artwork is by Andy Warhol. Stones celebrate the launch at Trax in NYC.

Apr: Mick attends Reggae Sunsplash in Jamaica and signs Peter Tosh to Rolling Stones Records.

May 5: Stones tape videos in New York for "Miss You," "Respectable," "Far Away Eyes."
May 10: "Miss You"/"Far Away Eyes" released. Stones begin rehearsing for their tour, at Bearsville, in Woodstock, NY


Jun 1: Some Girls album is released. Shortly after, some of those girls on the LP's cover -- Lucille Ball, Raquel Welch, and Liz Taylor -threaten to sue. After several months, Atlantic caves in to pressure and changes the cover. The album was originally called Some More Fast Numbers and some say the charged energy level is influenced by the recent punk rock explosion. The next single, "Respectable," shows the group commenting on their new status as "pillars of society" -- before slamming into brief acquaintance Margaret Trudeau, the Stones-slumming wife of the Canadian Prime Minister.

Jun 10 - Jul 26: Stones launch tour in Lakeland, FL. On July 10, Bill Wyman falls off stage in St.Paul, MN. On July 21, Linda Ronstadt is flown in by helicopter to their gig in Tucson.

Oct 7: Stones perform three songs on Saturday Night Live. Mick is interviewed by Tom "Dan Aykroyd" Snyder.

Nov: Rolling Stones Records releases Peter Tosh's "Don't Look Back" single, which features executive producer Mick Jagger on vocals.

Nov 8: Tosh's Bush Doctor LP is released.

Nov 29: "Shattered"/"Everything's Turning To Gold" (a track which isn't on the LP) is released as third single from Some Girls.

Dec 12: Keith's solo Christmas 45, a cover of "Run a cover of "Run Rudolph Run," is rush-released. (It was recorded years earlier.)

Apr: Stones perform a benefit concert in Oshawa, Canada for the Blind. The New Barbarians also perform. Ronnie and Keith tour with the New Barbarians.
May: Ron Wood releases solo album Gimme Some Neck.

Jul: Stones begin recording in Paris.

Jul 5: Peter Tosh's "Mystic Man" released by Rolling Stones Records. Run," is rush-released. (It was recorded years earlier.)

Jun 23: "Emotional Rescue"/"Down In The Hole" single released.

Jun 26: Emotional Rescue LP is released. To celebrate, Stones hold a press party at Danceteria in New York. When Charlie misses his plane from London and is unable to attend, tabloids start the latest break-uprumors, with headlines like "Charlie Watts: `I hate rock'n'roll!'"

Jul 11 - Jul 14: Stones videotape promos for "Emotional Rescue" and "She's So Cold" in New York.

Sep 10: "She's So Cold"/"Send It To Me" 45 released.

Sep 16 - 21: The infamous Cocksucker Blues film is shown by its director Robert Frank at New York's Whitney Museum. Admission is $2.00.

Oct 1: Earl McGrath resigns as President of Rolling Stones Records.

Dec 27: Mick travels to the Peruvian jungles to begin three months of filming Fitzcarraldo with director Werner Herzog. Due to other 1981 commitments, he never completes his role.