The Rolling Stones released their legendary tenth studio album “Exile on Main Street” on May 12, 1972. The album includes some of the band’s best-loved hits, including “Tumbling Dice” and “Lovin’ Cup.” It was recorded largely in the basement of Keith Richards’ rented villa in the south of France.By the late 1960s, the band had accrued more back taxes than any of them could afford to pay. So each member moved to France to avoid asset seizure by the British government. The sessions became legendary for non-stop partying around the villa, but Mick Jagger recalls that when the band went to work, they were able to focus on the music. “There wasn’t a peanut gallery, like a regular studio where you could stand in the control room behind glass. There was nowhere to watch from. Once we went to the basement, we were working. They didn’t bother us in the basement much. People get very bored watching people record,” he told the Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot in 2010.