In all likelihood, the band’s most recent studio album, the all-blues cover effort Blue & Lonesome, is going to be its last. Either characterization, though, is inadequate. In 2017, it seems equally reasonable to think of the Rolling Stones as rock gods or greedy dinosaurs. That leaves 45 ensuing years of gradually declining cultural relevance and, if we’re being honest, more mediocre music than good, and a seemingly ceaseless parade of product - compilation albums, concert films, live albums, and, recently, the traveling “Exhibitionism” display of band memorabilia.

If you’re a fan of the Stones, it’s hard not to always compare them with their glorious 1968 to 1972 peak, when they fully assimilated all their blues, rock-and-roll, R&B, and country influences and turned it into something decadent, dark, ironic, sexy, and wholly their own. That staying power is an incredible achievement, and it also has a distorting effect.

Fifty-five years! Founding members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts have been hitched to each other for far longer than the vast majority of marriages last - longer than a lot of lives last, too. Their longevity is staggering - this band has been around for 55 years. Time doesn’t apply to the Rolling Stones quite like it does to other rock bands.

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