Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Rolling Stones Has A Legendary Rock And Roll Band

By Leida Gardiner


The Rolling Stones got their start in 1962 and they're still performing on the road and releasing new music today after nearly five decades in the business legendary rock and roll band. The magic behind the men most books written about the group cannot rightly sum up their entire career; it's just been too storied and too drawn out to correctly quantify.

Were childhood friends growing up in England the band's front man Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. By chance in 1960 while respectively on their way to college after moving away from one another, the men reunited.A small band named Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys they shared eerily similar taste in music.

After meeting and befriending other band mates Ian Stewart, Charlie Watts, Tony Chapman and Brian Jones, the guys christened their band and came up with the name by chance.He took a name from a Muddy Waters track titled Rollin' Stone Jones was in charge of the christening, and in a panic.

The Rolling Stones played their first formal shows in 1962, beginning with blues legends by Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. In 1963, the group reached an agreement with IBC Studios to start recording their shows weren't incredibly successful, but the Stones were certainly making a name for themselves.After some buzz was created, former Beatles' publicist Andrew Loog Oldham became the band's manager in 1963.The young, upstart manager got the Stones signed to Decca records wit a little help.A cover of Chuck Berry's Come On, and it rose to number-21 on UK's charts the Rolling Stones released their first single that year.

Oldham convinced the band to begin writing and recording their own material after another two years of rerecording songs written and performed primarily by black blues artists.To start touring and made appearances on popular shows of the time like Dean Martin and The Ed Sullivan Show the Stones then took to America.

They hit number-one in the UK and rose to 5th on the US charts in 1965, Mick and Keith's collaborative effort, The Last Time. From the covers and to produce more original material this gave the men confidence and they began to break away.In the UK at this time, the Stones had already released two albums that were very successful.

On their song (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction during the band's third tour of North America, Richards and Jagger began working. It also cemented the Stones as original artists who could stand out on their own this ong would become-and still is-one of the band's most popular tunes.

Since the mid 1960s to date, The Rolling Stones are one of the world's biggest bands. They have recorded over 50 albums and have an impressive canon of rock hits, including classics like Paint it Black, Ruby Tuesday, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Honky Tonk Women, Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, and dozens of other smash hits.




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