Editing The Rolling Stones (section)

===1972–1977: Critical fluctuations and Ronnie Wood replaces Taylor===
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In 1972, members of the band set up a complex financial structure to reduce the amount of their taxes.<ref name="independent tax">{{Cite news|last=Hall|first=Allan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/stones-paid-just-16-tax-on-163240m-royalties-410232.html|title=Stones paid just 1.6% tax on £240m royalties|date=2 August 2006 |work=The Independent|access-date=13 August 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170813145412/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/stones-paid-just-16-tax-on-163240m-royalties-410232.html|archive-date=13 August 2017|url-status=live|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04amster.html|title=The Netherlands, the New Tax Shelter Hot Spot|last=Browning |first=Lynnley|date=4 February 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=13 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813111633/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04amster.html|archive-date=13 August 2017|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}</ref> Their holding company, Promogroup, has offices in both the Netherlands and the Caribbean.<ref name="independent tax" /><ref name=":22" /> The Netherlands was chosen because it does not directly tax [[royalty payment]]s. The band have been [[tax exile]]s ever since, meaning they can no longer use Britain as their main residence. Due to the arrangements with the holding company, the band has reportedly paid a tax of just 1.6% on their total earnings of £242&nbsp;million over the past 20 years.<ref name="independent tax" /><ref name=":22" />

In November 1972, the band began recording sessions in [[Kingston, Jamaica]], for the album ''[[Goats Head Soup]]''; it was released in 1973 and reached number&nbsp;1 in both the UK and US.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rollingstones.com/release/goats-head-soup/ |title=Goats Head Soup |website=The Rolling Stones |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=8 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408205338/http://www.rollingstones.com/release/goats-head-soup/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The album, which contained the worldwide hit "[[Angie (song)|Angie]]", was the first in a string of commercially successful, but critically tepidly received, studio albums.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/goats-head-soup-mw0000650701|title=Goats Head Soup – album review |last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas |work=Allmusic |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130707063113/http://www.allmusic.com/album/goats-head-soup-mw0000650701 |archive-date=7 July 2013 |url-status=live|access-date=14 July 2013}}</ref> The sessions for ''Goats Head Soup'' also produced unused material, most notably an early version of the popular ballad "[[Waiting on a Friend]]", which was not released until the ''[[Tattoo You]]'' LP nine years later.{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2016|pp=514, 528}}

Another legal battle over drugs, dating back to their stay in France, interrupted the making of ''Goats Head Soup''. Authorities had issued a warrant for Richards' arrest, and the other band members had to return briefly to France for questioning.{{sfn|Wyman|2002|p=408}} This, along with Jagger's 1967 and 1970 convictions on drug charges, complicated the band's plans for their [[The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973|Pacific tour]] in early 1973: they were denied permission to play in Japan and almost banned from Australia. A [[The Rolling Stones European Tour 1973|European tour]] followed in September and October 1973, which bypassed France, coming, as it did, after Richards' recent arrest in England on drug charges.{{sfn|Wyman|2002|pp=361, 412}}

The 1974 album ''[[It's Only Rock 'n Roll]]'' was recorded in the [[Musicland Studios]] in Munich, Germany; it reached number&nbsp;2 in the UK and number&nbsp;1 in the US.<ref name=":20">{{Cite news|last=Turner|first=Steve|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/making-the-stones-new-album-19741205|title=Making The Stones' New Album|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=6 December 1874|access-date=11 October 2017|url-access=limited}}</ref> Miller was not invited to return as the album's producer because his "contribution level had dropped".<ref name=":20" /> Jagger and Richards, credited as "the Glimmer Twins", produced the album.<ref>Jagger, M., Richards, R. (1974). [Liner notes]. In ''It's Only Rock'n'Roll'' [Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue]. Rolling Stones Records.</ref> Both the album and [[It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)|the single of the same name]] were hits.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/it%27s-only-rock-%27n%27-roll/|title=it's-only-rock-'n'-roll {{!}} full Official Chart History|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/it%27s-only-rock-and-roll/|title=it's-only-rock-and-roll {{!}} full Official Chart History|website=[[OfficialCharts.com]]|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Landau|first=Jon|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/its-only-rock-n-roll-19741219|title=It's Only Rock 'n Roll|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=16 December 1974|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref>

Near the end of 1974, Taylor began to lose patience after years of feeling like a "junior citizen in the band of jaded veterans".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kot |first=Greg |date=12 December 2014 |title=Mick Taylor to Slash: Rock's irreplaceable guitarists? |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141212-rocks-irreplaceable-guitarists |access-date=2 June 2018 |website=BBC}}</ref> The band's situation made normal functioning complicated, with members living in different countries,<ref>{{cite news |last=<!-- Unknown --> |first=<!-- Unknown --> |date=2 October 1975 |title=Rolling Stones deny disbanding |page=27 |work=The Sun |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104853340/rolling-stones-deny-disbanding/ |access-date=2022-07-03 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and legal barriers restricting where they could tour.{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2016|p=418}} In addition, drug use was starting to affect Taylor's and Richards' productivity, and Taylor felt some of his own creative contributions were going unrecognised.{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2016|pp=420–423}} At the end of 1974, Taylor quit the Rolling Stones.{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2016|p=420}} Taylor said in 1980, "I wanted to broaden my scope as a guitarist and do something else&nbsp;... I wasn't really composing songs or writing at that time. I was just beginning to write, and that influenced my decision&nbsp;... There are some people who can just ride along from crest to crest; they can ride along somebody else's success. And there are some people for whom that's not enough. It really wasn't enough for me."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Obrecht|first=Jas|title=Mick Taylor: Ex-Rolling Stones On His Own|page=20|journal=Guitar World|date=February 1980}}</ref>

[[File:Mick Jagger and Ron Wood - Rolling Stones - 1975.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Ronnie Wood]] (left), on his first tour with the Rolling Stones, with Mick Jagger (right) in [[Chicago]] in 1975|alt=Ronnie Wood and Jagger perform onstage in Chicago, 1975.]]
The Stones needed a new guitarist, and the recording sessions in Munich for the next album, ''[[Black and Blue]]'' (1976) (number&nbsp;2 in the UK, number&nbsp;1 in the US), provided an opportunity for some guitarists hoping to join the band to work while trying out. Guitarists as stylistically disparate as [[Peter Frampton]] and [[Jeff Beck]] were auditioned, as well as [[Robert A. Johnson (musician)|Robert A. Johnson]] and [[Shuggie Otis]]. Both Beck and Irish blues rock guitarist [[Rory Gallagher]] later claimed they had played without realising they were being auditioned. American session players [[Wayne Perkins]] and [[Harvey Mandel]] also tried out, but Richards and Jagger preferred for the band to remain purely British. When [[Ronnie Wood]] auditioned, everyone agreed he was the right choice.{{sfn|Jagger|Richards|Watts|Wood|2003|p=174}} He had already recorded and played live with Richards, and had contributed to the recording and writing of the track "It's Only Rock 'n Roll". He had declined Jagger's earlier offer to join the Stones, because of his commitment to [[Faces (band)|Faces]], saying "that's what's really important to me".{{sfn|Paytress|2003|p=239}} Faces' lead singer [[Rod Stewart]] went so far as to say he would take bets that Wood would not join the Stones.{{sfn|Paytress|2003|p=239}}

In 1975, Wood joined the band as second guitarist for their upcoming Tour of the Americas, which was a contributing factor in the disbandment of Faces. His installment as a Rolling Stone was announced in 1976; unlike the other band members, however, Wood was a salaried employee, which remained the case until the early 1990s, when he finally joined the Stones' business partnership.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/23/ronnie-wood-interview-simon-hattenstone|title=Ronnie Wood: Second Life|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=22 November 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129080634/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/23/ronnie-wood-interview-simon-hattenstone|archive-date=29 November 2014|date=22 April 2011|last1=Hattenstone|first1=Simon}}</ref>

The 1975 [[Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas '75|Tour of the Americas]] kicked off in New York City with the band performing on a flatbed trailer being pulled down [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]]. The tour featured stage props including a giant [[phallus]] and a rope on which Jagger swung out over the audience. In June of that year, the Stones' Decca catalogue was purchased by Klein's [[ABKCO]] label.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 June 1975 |title=Stones Settle With Allen Klein: Four More Albums |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stones-settle-with-allen-klein-four-more-albums-19750605 |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816004450/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stones-settle-with-allen-klein-four-more-albums-19750605 |archive-date=16 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Aswad |first=Jem |date=9 September 2016 |title=The Rolling Stones' Early Catalog Dazzles on New Mono Remasters: Sneak Peek |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/the-rolling-stones-early-catalog-dazzles-on-new-mono-remasters-sneak-peek-7503441/ |url-status=live |access-date=15 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223073534/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7503441/the-rolling-stones-early-catalog-dazzles-on-new-mono-remasters-sneak-peek |archive-date=23 December 2016}}</ref> In August 1976, the Stones [[Knebworth Festival|played Knebworth]] in England in front of 200,000—their largest audience to date—and finished their set at 7&nbsp;a.m.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hind|first=John|date=25 November 2012 |title=The night I saw the Rolling Stones jam until 7am |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/nov/25/rolling-stones-rehearsal-1976-knebworth |access-date=25 June 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> Jagger had booked live recording sessions at the [[El Mocambo]], a club in Toronto, to produce a long-overdue live album, 1977's ''[[Love You Live]]'',<ref name="LYL">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rollingstones.com/release/love-you-live/ |title=Love You Live |website=The Rolling Stones |access-date=18 June 2018 |archive-date=2 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402224924/http://www.rollingstones.com/release/love-you-live/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> the first Stones live album since ''Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!''<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=31 October 1977|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv11-77.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=9 June 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624074435/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv11-77.php|archive-date=24 June 2015}}</ref> It reached No.&nbsp;3 in the UK and No.&nbsp;5 in the US.<ref name="LYL"/>

Richards' addiction to heroin delayed his arrival in Toronto; the other members had already arrived. On 24 February 1977, when Richards and his family flew in from London, they were temporarily detained by [[Canada Border Services Agency|Canadian customs]] after Richards was found in possession of a burnt spoon and hash residue. Three days later, the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], armed with an arrest warrant for Anita Pallenberg, discovered {{convert|22|g|oz}} of heroin in Richards' room.{{sfn|Greenspan|1980|p=518}} He was charged with importing narcotics into Canada, an offence that carried a minimum seven-year sentence.{{sfn|Sandford|2003|p=225}} The Crown prosecutor later conceded that Richards had procured the drugs after his arrival.{{sfn|Greenspan|1980|pp=517–527}}
[[File:ElMacomboSpadinaAveToronto.jpg|thumb|[[El Mocambo]] in [[Toronto]], where some of the live album ''[[Love You Live]]'' was recorded in 1977|alt=A picture of El Mocambo taken at night.]]

Despite the incident, the band played two shows in [[Toronto]], but caused more controversy when [[Margaret Trudeau]], then-wife of Canadian Prime Minister [[Pierre Trudeau]], was seen partying with the band after one show. The band's shows were not advertised to the public. Instead, the El Mocambo had been booked for the entire week by [[April Wine]] for a recording session. [[1050 CHUM]], a local radio station, ran a contest for free tickets to see April Wine. Contest winners who selected tickets for Friday or Saturday night were surprised to find the Rolling Stones playing.{{sfn|Sandford|2003|p=227}}

On 4 March, Richards' partner Anita Pallenberg pleaded guilty to drug possession and incurred a fine in connection with the original airport incident.{{sfn|Sandford|2003|p=227}} The drug case against Richards dragged on for over a year. Ultimately, he received a [[suspended sentence]] and was ordered to play two charity concerts to benefit the [[CNIB Foundation|Canadian institute for the blind]] in [[Oshawa]];{{sfn|Greenspan|1980|pp=517–527}} both shows featured the Rolling Stones and [[The New Barbarians (band)|the New Barbarians]], a group that Wood had put together to promote his latest solo album, which Richards also joined. This episode strengthened Richards' resolve to stop using heroin.<ref name=stonemag /> It also ended his relationship with Pallenberg, which had become strained since the death of their third child, Tara. Pallenberg was unable to curb her heroin addiction as Richards struggled to get clean.{{sfn|Sandford|2003|pp=232–233; 248–250}} While Richards was settling his legal and personal problems, Jagger continued his jet-set lifestyle. He was a regular at New York's [[Studio 54]] disco club, often in the company of model [[Jerry Hall]]. His marriage to [[Bianca Jagger]] ended in 1977, although they had long been estranged.<ref>{{Cite news|author=<!-- Unknown -->|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1400291/Seventies-and-Eighties.html |title=Seventies and Eighties |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=1 August 2003 |access-date=2 August 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101016071230/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1400291/Seventies-and-Eighties.html |archive-date=16 October 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Although the Rolling Stones remained popular through the early 1970s, music critics had begun to grow dismissive of the band's output, and record sales failed to meet expectations.<ref name="rockhall3"/> By the mid-1970s, after [[punk rock]] became influential, many people had begun to view the Rolling Stones as an outdated band.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Philo|first=Simon|date=2 September 2015|title=Not Sucking in the Seventies: The Rolling Stones and the Myth of Decline|journal=Rock Music Studies|volume=2|issue=3|pages=295–314|doi=10.1080/19401159.2015.1093377|issn=1940-1159|hdl=10545/620899|s2cid=191963491}}</ref>