Richards: 'Exile On Main Street' sessions were 'Hitleresque'

Keith Richards described sessions for The Rolling Stones’ ‘Exile On Main Street’ album as “Hitleresque”.

The band’s 1972 double album was recorded the previous summer at the rented Nellcote mansion in the south of France – a residence rumoured to have been a base of Nazi operation in World War II – and Keith recalled sessions for it being held in the basement, and being a trying time for the band.