Lip Service: The Rolling Stones Podcast

Lip Service is a podcast that celebrates the music, history, and legacy of The Rolling Stones. Each episode features conversations with band members, friends, and collaborators, sharing untold stories and rare perspectives from the Stones’ inner circle. From Dartford days to 'Hackney Diamonds' and beyond, these are the voices that bring the greatest rock ’n’ roll band’s vivid journey to life.

Lip Service: The Rolling Stones Podcast is a music podcast hosted by Simon Harper, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Simon Harper hosts Lip Service: The Rolling Stones Podcast, a music show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #12

  Episode 12: Chris Kimsey

  Mar 9, 20261h 27mS1

  <p>Today’s guest is Chris Kimsey, the studio engineer and producer behind many of The Rolling Stones’ most celebrated recordings.</p><p>Kimsey began his career as a teenage tape operator at London’s Olympic Studios in the late 1960s, learning the craft of recording from the ground up inside one of the most important studios of the era. By the 1970s he had become one of the most in-demand engineers on the London scene, working with artists including Led Zeppelin and Peter Frampton, and would go on to collaborate with a wide range of major acts including Peter Tosh...

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  Episode #11

  Episode 11: Karl Denson

  Feb 23, 20261h 2mS1

  <p>Today’s guest is Karl Denson, saxophonist with The Rolling Stones since 2014, when he stepped into the role made legendary by the late, great Bobby Keys.</p><p>Rooted in jazz improvisation and deep funk traditions, Karl earned a reputation as an esteemed double threat: a highly gifted musician equally confident leading from the front as elevating from within a group as an indispensable sideman. From the late 1980s he toured extensively with Lenny Kravitz, before helping establish The Greyboy Allstars and later fronting Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, projects that helped re-energise groove-based music for a new generation.</p><p...

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  Episode #10

  Episode 10: Stephen Kijak

  Feb 9, 20261h 12mS1

  <p>Today’s guest is Stephen Kijak, filmmaker and director of Stones In Exile, the beloved fan-favourite documentary that explores The Rolling Stones’ self-imposed exile in the south of France and the making of their classic 1972 album, ‘Exile On Main St.’</p><p>A director whose work sits at the intersection of music, journalism and cinema, Stephen first emerged with his 1996 feature Never Met Picasso before turning his focus to documentary filmmaking. His subsequent films - including Cinemania, an affectionate portrait of obsessive New York cinephiles, and Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, a study of one of pop music’s most enigmatic...

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  Episode #9

  Episode 9: Robert Greenfield

  Jan 26, 20261h 28mS1

  <p>Today’s guest is Robert Greenfield, author of STP: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones, one of the most vivid accounts of The Rolling Stones at their magnificent, hedonistic peak, and the first book ever written from inside a major rock tour.</p><p>As the UK’s Associate Editor for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s, the New Yorker earned rare access to the band at a pivotal moment in their history. He joined them on their 1971 ‘Goodbye Britain’ tour, before travelling to the south of France later that year, where he conducted what became Keith Richards...

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  Episode #8

  Episode 8: Ray Winkler

  Jan 12, 202659 minS1

  <p>Today’s guest is Ray Winkler: architect, designer, and CEO at STUFISH Entertainment Architects, who has helped conceive and shape The Rolling Stones’ live stages for over 30 years.</p><p>Mentored by the late Mark Fisher, Ray began working with him in the mid-1990s at the company that would later evolve into STUFISH, before joining the Stones’ touring family for the first time on the ‘Bridges To Babylon’ tour. From that point on, he became central to translating the band’s identity into vast, immersive stage environments.</p><p>In this episode, Ray talks about the trust required to design fo...

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