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Rolling Stones: A Complete Biography Of The Greatest Band In The World
An English rock band based in London, the Rolling Stones formed in 1962, by guitarist and harmonica player Brian Jones, pianist Ian Stewart, vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and other various musicians, such as saxophonist Bobby Keys, also performed with the early lineups. During the 1960s, they pioneered the gritty, heavy-driven sound that would come to define hard rock. They have been active for almost six decades and have been one of the most popular and long lasting bands of their time.
At their inception, Mick Jagger lead the band, along with Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts. While the band was assembling the band and naming it, Jones was driving the sound and image.
Every aspect of the Rolling Stones’ career has been exhaustively documented over the years. Their music, art and interviews have inspired countless fans and music critics alike to write about them. In fact, if you’re an avid reader of Rolling Stone magazine, you probably know more about the band than you think you do.
The “Lips” also have a long history of being featured in movies and television shows. From cameos in The Simpsons to starring roles in documentaries like Crossfire Hurricane, the Rolling Stones have appeared in a number of memorable pop culture moments.
History of rolling stones
A friendship was formed between Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in 1950 while both shared a classroom in Dartford, Kent. Dick Taylor, a music student at Dartford’s Academy of Music, played mostly material by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin’ Wolf, and Bo Diddley.
They then met again on October 17 at Dartford railway station. Jagger was carrying a record by Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. They discovered they both had similar interests. In late 1961, Allen Etherington and Bob Beckwith joined Richards and Taylor, and the quintet began calling themselves the Blues Boys. The pairing developed into a musical partnership after they met Jagger often at his house.
Blues Boys first heard of the Ealing Jazz Club in 1962. On April 7, they met Alexis Korner and his Blues Incorporated. Alexis liked their music, so he sent them a tape with his favorites. This included slide guitarist Brian Jones, keyboard player Ian Stewart, and drummer Charlie Watts. Blues Boys had previously met the members of Blues Incorporated and also jammed with them earlier. After meeting with Korner, Jagger and Richards started jamming with the group.
Career of Rolling Stones
A list of some of the Rolling Stones’ famous songs include Paint It Black, Lady Jane, Ruby Tuesday, and (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Many of their fans have said it started them off and makes them shake their hips. Their song Satisfaction, composed by Keith Richards in his sleep in 1965, was one of the biggest hits of the rock band’s career. It also became a calling card at every show.
After The Beatles stopped doing live shows in 1966, The Rolling Stones became unofficially the biggest world tour band for a few years. Their second number-one single was released in 1966, entitled “Get Off My Cloud.” Their last albums, Out of Our Heads and December’s Children, also featured a lot of cover songs.
This album was the first to feature a 12-minute long jam on a top-selling rock-and-roll album, almost everything from “Paint It, Black” to “Lady Jane” would feature on the American version.
Jagger had arranged a live recording session at a Toronto club to balance out the band’s long-awaited live album, 1977’s Love You Live (UK number three; U.S. number five), which included the song “Miss You” and “Beast of Burden.” They re-established their popularity among young people with the success of Some Girls (UK number two; U.S. number one) released in 1978. After releasing its second album in mid-1980 (UK number two; U.S. number one), the band released its next in mid-1981.
During the success of the Steel Wheels and Urban Jungle tours, the Stones shifted their focus to solo work. They licensed their back catalog of studio albums to Virgin Records, who remastered and repackaged them, as well as issuing a new compilation in 1993 called Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones
Achievements
In 2007, they played 147 large-scale shows worldwide, including the Tsar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the communist revolution took place. In 2005-2007, they even rocked the Russian Tsar’s Winter Palace with 50 thousand fans, resulting in the biggest show ever. They have given more large-scale shows internationally than any other band, culminating in their 2005-2007 “A Bigger Band” tour. With $559 million in earnings, it is the highest-gross.
The Rolling Stones were arguably the greatest pop music band of all time. They sold over 200 million albums and even more singles, had 24 top 40 hits in the USA, sold out stadiums around the world and were still going strong in 2016.
They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. And their first UK single was released in 1962, which is almost 60 years ago. Some bands have been around longer than that, but few of them can claim to have so many fans around the globe today.
In 1989 the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time” list.
