The Rolling Stones - (Page 7)

On November 9, 2003, the band played its first ever concert in Hong Kong as part of Harbour Fest celebration. In November of 2003 the band exclusively licensed the right to sell their new 4-DVD boxed set to the Best Buy chain of stores. In response, major music retail chains (including Tower Records, Virgin Megastores and HMV) have pulled all Rolling Stones CDs and related merchandise from their shelves and replaced them with signs explaining the situation. Of all the British bands that purloined American music and sold it back to the States, none have matched the Rolling Stones' ingenious, energized redesigns of roots influences.

The Stones didn't so much pay homage to their roots as create revelatory, enduring rock 'n' roll extensions of black Chicago and Delta blues, R&B, gospel and hardcore country, playing up the sexually rhythmic charge of the music by pushing it in new directions.