If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

...it was not simply a matter of musical taste; whether you preferred the Beatles or [the Rolling] Stones said much about your personality and character. People who were happy, intelligent, well-adjusted, popular, clean, decent and punctual tended to be Beatles fans. Those who were evil, cretinous, scabby, drug-ridden, filthy, criminal perverts liked the Stones.
As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral.