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Despite the fact that the group's first singles were covers, the raw sexuality that showed through at the concerts attracted the attention of the public, and the ensemble's popularity grew steadily. The debut album topped the national charts and stayed on the charts for over 50 weeks. The next step was the conquest of America, and if the first visit overseas was not very successful, then already in the second run, the Rolling Stones were met by enthusiastic crowds of fans. Although the first single chart toppers "It's All Over Now" and "Little Red Rooster" were covers, Oldham began to insist on performing the original material, and over time this paid off. "cut into american top 40, and in early 1965 the Jagger-Richards song "The Last Time" became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the band's main breakthrough came with "(I Can" t Get No) Satisfaction, a true rock anthem that propelled the Stones to superstar status.

In April 1966, the album "Aftermath" was released, all the material for which, in contrast to previous records, where rhythm and blues covers dominated, was written by Jagger and Richards. At this work, the musicians, at the suggestion of Jones, tried to diversify the sound by attracting exotic instruments, which, however, did not prevent them from once again conquering the top of the charts. After the release of the rather eclectic and at the same time most pop "Between The Buttons", Mick, Keith and Brian were arrested for drug possession, and when the incident was over, the musicians stopped working with Oldham. Their first independent work was "Their Satanic Majesties Request", stuffed with psychedelic effects. And although it was supposed to be a response to the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper", the reaction of the listeners was ambiguous. As it turned out, the change of course was short-lived, and already on "Beggars Banquet" the team returned to raw rhythm and blues. In June 1969, Jones left the group, dissatisfied with the leadership of Jagger-Richards and heavily addicted to drugs. Less than a month later, his body was found in the pool, and the coroner ruled the death an accident. Brian's place was taken by Mick Taylor, with whose participation the Rolling Stones played a free concert on July 5 in memory of a deceased comrade-in-arms. Released in December 1969, "Let It Bleed" included some parts from Jones, and the disc sustained in the spirit of "Beggars Banquet" returned the group the palm. On the subsequent American tour, the team broke all attendance records, but its visit to the United States was overshadowed by the tragedy in Altamont, when biker guards beat a black guy to death at a Stones concert, suspecting he had a weapon.

In 1970, the contract with Decca expired, and the Rollings organized their own label, Rolling Stones Records. Despite the fact that the group's albums continued to take first place in the charts ("Sticky Fingers", "Exile On Main St.", "Goats Head Soup"), a split was outlined in the team. Jagger led a secular lifestyle, Richards became increasingly addicted to drugs, and Taylor could not fully satisfy his authorial ambitions. After the release of "It" s Only Rock "N Roll", which, unlike the soul and funk-oriented "Goats Head Soup", turned out to be more rocky, Mick eventually parted ways with the Stones. His place was taken by ex-guitarist "Faces" Ron Wood, who made his debut in the program "Black And Blue", where the traditional rock and roll was supplanted by reggae and funk. In the second half of the 70s, the members of the group were increasingly distracted by side projects, but the popularity of the ensemble remained at a high level. In 1978, "Some Girls" was released with clear influences from fashionable new wave, punk and disco, with the accompanying single "Miss You" becoming the leader of the charts.

Having issued a couple more commercially successful works, also having a taste of disco "Emotional Rescue" and based on the seventies outtakes of "Tattoo You", the band again plunged into the abyss of discord. Jagger sought to modernize the sound, while Richards wanted to stick to root rock, resulting in "Undercover" suffering from defocused material. The disc, which only made it to number 4 on the Billboard, broke the dominance of the Rolling Stones in the US charts, and after all, on the other side of the Atlantic, they had held the palm since the days of Sticky Fingers. The 1983 studio album, as well as the subsequent one, caused not too favorable responses, and "Dirty Work", with its dance-rock more like a Jagger solo album, was not even accompanied by a tour. The Rolling Stones redeemed themselves with "Steel Wheels", marking their return to form. The reconciliation between Mick and Keith brought the band back to its classic sound, but the success of the accompanying box-office tour overshadowed the success of the album itself. After the release of the live album "Flashpoint", Bill Wyman left the line-up, and the remaining team took a long time out. The resulting vacancy was filled by Darryl Jones, but this musician never received the official title of "rolling". The 1994 release of "Voodoo Lounge" caused a storm of enthusiasm and took "Grammy" in the category "Best Rock Album", and the tour in support of it was even more successful than the promotion of "Steel Wheels".

In 1995, the Stones released the acoustic live album Stripped, and in 1997 they returned with the studio album Bridges To Babylon. Despite the fact that the album caused conflicting responses, it was certified platinum. Interestingly, if "Voodoo Lounge" had a specific retro sound, then in the case of "Bridges To Babylon" the sound became much more modern. In the future, the team's studio activity began to decline, and fresh material appeared only in 2005. The release of "A Bigger Bang", charged with signature loud and still sexy rhythm and blues, was accompanied by a successful world tour, and in 2008, the Rolling Stones threw out the live album "Shine A Light", which was the soundtrack to film of the same name Martin Scorsese. The release started from the second position of the British charts, which in terms of live recordings has not been observed since "Get Yer Ya-Ya" s Out! "In the tenth years, the team began to actively rummage through their archives (which had not been observed before), as a result both bonus re-releases of classic albums and legal bootlegs appeared on the market.In terms of playing live, even after the 50th anniversary, the band appeared in public quite regularly, and as part of a Latin American tour in 2016, they gave a historic concert in Cuba In the same 2016, the Rolling Stones released the album "Blue & Lonesome", dedicated to the Chicago blues and consisting of some covers.

Last update 01/16/17 Rolling Stones, literally from English. "rolling stones", idiomatic translation - "free wanderers" or tramps, "tumbleweeds") - British rock band, formed on July 12, 1962 and for many years competed in popularity with The Beatles. An important part of the British Invasion, the Rolling Stones are considered one of the most influential and successful groups in the history of rock. The Rolling Stones, who were intended by manager Andrew Loog Oldham to be a "rebellious" alternative The Beatles, were touted as "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" as early as 1969 during an American tour and (according to Allmusic) have managed to maintain that status to this day.

Influenced by Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, the Rolling Stones' musical style has taken on individual traits over time; the author duo Jagger-Richards eventually received worldwide recognition.

The band has released twenty-two studio and eight live albums in the UK (24 and 9 respectively in the US). Twenty-one singles entered the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, 8 of them climbed to the top of the charts; the Rolling Stones' respective numbers on the Billboard Hot 100 are 28 and 8.

The Rolling Stones have sold over 250 million albums worldwide , 200 million of which have been sold in the US ; according to these indicators, the group is one of the most successful in history. In 1989, the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 they were ranked fourth on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Group history

In the ensuing conversation, it turned out that both of them are fond of blues and rhythm and blues (unlike most of their peers, who preferred rock and roll), and that they have a mutual friend - Dick Taylor, who studied at the art school Sidcup Art school. The three of them decided to create a group, which they gave the name Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys and learned several songs from the repertoire of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

Debut

In August 1962, Dick Taylor left the group and was replaced by Bill Wyman of The Cliftons, and Ivory (later joining The Kinks) was replaced by Tony Chapman, who soon gave way to Charlie Watts, who at that time worked in an advertising agency.

By the beginning of 1963, the composition had stabilized and for 8 months "donkey" in the club Crawdaddy, where he attracted the attention, in particular, of Andrew Lug Oldham, who "outbid" the Stones from the club manager Giorgio Gomelsky and immediately decided to create a "dirty" image for the wards - in defiance of the "clean" The Beatles. According to one version, at his insistence, Stewart was ousted from the composition - only because he outwardly contrasted with the rest of the participants. According to another version, Oldham believed that the line-up was too large for a rock band. The pianist did not lose contact with the group: he became one of the main stage workers and performed with them at concerts until his death in 1985. After securing a contract with Decca Records, The Rolling Stones released in June debut single"Come On" (composed by Chuck Berry), which peaked at number 21 in the UK.

Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger in Chicago

This was followed by "I Wanna Be Your Man" (Lennon-McCartney composition) and "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, No. 3 in Britain and first hit in the US Top 50). By this time, The Rolling Stones had already become infamous at home: Oldham's bet on a "dirty" image worked. After the release of the debut album (in Britain it was called The Rolling Stones, in the USA - England's Newest Hit Makers The Rolling Stones), the group held the first American tour, during which she recorded Five by Five ep. By the time the tour ended, they already had their first UK chart topper: "Little Red Rooster", a composition by Howlin' Wolfe.

After the release of the debut album The Rolling Stones, Great Britain was overwhelmed by real hysteria, which at concerts now and then grew into brawls. One of the most violent shows in the history of English rock and roll remains the band's concert at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, during which the fans began to destroy lamps, broke the Steinway piano and made a dump, as a result of which about fifty people healed their wounds in the hospital. It happened that in the very first minutes after the musicians appeared on the stage, emotions ran high to such an extent that the concerts had to be interrupted.

From this point on, Oldham insisted that the band record exclusively their own compositions. In June 1964, the single "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" entered the US Top 40 and launched a string of Jagger-Richards hits. The author's duet raised "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Summer 1965) to superstar status. By itself (later recognized as a classic) guitar riff (originally copying the sound of the brass section) testified that the Rolling Stones had separated from the roots of traditional blues and entered their own development path. The single stayed at the top of the American "lists" for 4 weeks; followed by one after the other in the "top ten" - "Get off My Cloud", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "As Tears Go By", "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" .

In 1966, The Rolling Stones decided to respond to the Beatles' radical path of development with their own excursion into psychedelia: Aftermath became the band's first album not to contain cover versions. Brian Jones by this time was already fond of a wide variety of musical trends, and this was reflected in such things as "Paint It Black" (the sitar turned out to be the solo instrument here) or "Going Home".

With a new line-up (with producer Don Waze), the Rolling Stones recorded an album Voodoo Lounge, which brought them their first Grammy (for the best rock album). In 1994-95, The Rolling Stones set the all-time record for the most profitable tour ever, the Voodoo Lounge. The team played 62 shows instead of 28 and earned over $400 million.

At the end of the tour, the Rolling Stones released an acoustic album in the fall of 1995. stripped. Two years later behind the studio Bridges to Babylon; during the ensuing tour, the group broke their own record, earning about 500 million. Then came another live CD No security.

A remastered reissue of the album was released in 2010. Exile On Main St.; on the second disc of this edition were collected the best of the group's songs, recorded in the period from the end of 1969 to 1972 and for various reasons shelved. With the active participation of Mick Jagger, a documentary film was made about the life and work of the group in the early 1970s. May 23, 2010 reissue Exile On Main St. debuted at the top of the British charts, 38 years after his original version came to this position. In the US, the album rose to #2. A CD version containing ten tracks was released on Target Records as Exile On Main St. (Rarities Edition); she rose to #27 on the Billboard lists.

Place in history

The influence of The Rolling Stones on the formation and development of rock music cannot be overestimated - not only in musical terms, but also in artistic, visual, image and mass media terms. The group to this day remains absolutely original, recognizable from the first chords. Uncomplicated, it would seem, at the beginning, works, some of which at the first listening create a feeling of noise chaos, at subsequent listening appear as a full-fledged highly artistic artifact.

Many Rolling Stones albums such as: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, some girls, Tattoo You, Steel Wheels are recognized as classics of the genre. Without first four Of the listed albums, not a single final, over the past 30 years, parade of the most important works of rock and roll in music publications is complete. Song satisfaction became an internationally recognizable symbol of the Rolling Stones and rhythm and blues of the 1960s, without which no one concert of the group can do.

Their work, extremely flexible in terms of reaction to this or that fad and musical fashion, nevertheless, has not undergone significant changes, and the author's style is always recognizable. They draw from the traditional blues, coloring it with every conceivable shade of emotion, rhythm and musical tricks. The list of hits or songs that are an example of a particular genre in the interpretation of the Rolling Stones will be an impressive volume, as well as a list of stars who collaborated with them from the artistic, cinematic, musical, political, mass media and simply bohemian environments. Now The Rolling Stones is an integral part of the history of the 20th century, smoothly flowing into the 21st century.

• Already at the age of nine, Keith Richards sang for the first time in front of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain - as part of children's choir who spoke at her coronation ceremony in 1953.
• Once Jones, Jagger and Bill Wyman publicly peed on the wall of a gas station, for which they were arrested; at photo shoots, the musicians dressed up in provocative women's dresses.
• Jagger, Richards and Jones have been repeatedly arrested for drug possession, brought to trial and even received suspended sentences with probation. A question typical of 1964 English newspapers: "Will you let your daughter marry a member of The Rolling Stones?" - fully expressed the attitude of the establishment towards these "bad boys".
• On the cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper "s Lonely Hearts Club Band" () of The Beatles is depicted, including a rag doll with the inscription: "Welcome the Rolling Stones".
• Ian Dury released a single called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Sex, drugs and rock and roll) in 1977, although many believe that this phrase belongs to Mick Jaguerre. But this opinion is wrong.
• The song " Sympathy for the Devil" () was written under the impression of Mikhail Bulgakov's book " The Master and Margarita". Before writing the song in 1966, Mick Jagger himself imagined himself to be none other than Woland, the book was only translated into English (Marianne Faithful gave Mick this book).
• The portrait of Mick Jagger appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine a record number of times - 15. The first time it happened on August 10, 1968 in the 50th issue.
• In 1968, Mick Jagger tried his hand at cinema, starring in the cult film "Performance" directed by Nicholas Roeg, which was released only in 1970.
• A concert in Hyde Park, two days after the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones in 1969, attracted more than 250,000 spectators. During the show, Jagger released several thousand white butterflies into the sky.
• The image of bright red lips and a brazen protruding tongue, which became the signature emblem of The Rolling Stones, was not invented by Andy Warhol, as many mistakenly believe because of the first appearance of this logo on the cover of the 1971 album Sticky Fingers, designed by Warhol (and very non-standard: on the sleeve of the record were jeans from the waist to the knees with a real zipper, under which the buyer found the very protruding tongue), and less famous designer John Pasch in 1970.
• The records of many famous rock bands (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin) were recorded on the group's mobile studio, known as the Rolling Stones Mobile ().
• The 1994 album Voodoo Lounge brought The Rolling Stones their first (and so far last) Grammy Awards. It was named the best rock album, and the video for the song "Love Is Strong" was named the best short video.
• The Rolling Stones earned the most for participating in an advertising campaign: Microsoft paid the group $ 8 million for performing the hit "Start Me Up" (a hint at the "Start" - Start button) in advertising operating system Windows 95.
• The song "She's a Rainbow" was used in advertising for Sony and Apple products.
• Participation in 1997 in the video for the song bands The Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby" for Angelina Jolie was one of the first roles in her acting career.
• The Rolling Stones performed twice in Russia: August 11, 1998 in Moscow, just before the default, and July 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg.
• Guitarist Keith Richards, who celebrated his 60th birthday in 2003, was called the biggest brawler in the history of rock music by viewers of VH1. As a consistent champion of the "sex, drugs, rock and roll" principle, he is ahead of competitors such as Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Lee and the Gallagher brothers.
• When playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the films of the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003-2013), Johnny Depp tried to imitate the walk and manner of speaking of Keith Richards, who is one of his favorite musicians. In the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", at the request of Depp, the musician played the father of Jack Sparrow - Captain Teague.
• The Rolling Stones have the world's most powerful Electro-Voice () live set.
• In the 42nd year of their existence, The Rolling Stones, record holders of longevity in rock music, went on one of the longest tours of their career, A Bigger Bang (), which lasted 14 months. The group donated one million dollars of their royalties to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
• In 2005, the song "Angie" was used by the Democratic Union of Germany in Angela Merkel's election campaign. Interestingly, without permission from The Rolling Stones or their agents. However, the legal issues of the party managed to settle with the German copyright management agency.
• The first Rolling Stones museum in the world was built in Germany in 2008.
• The song "Sympathy for the devil" is used in Call of Duty: Black Ops ()
• The Rolling Stones top the list of the highest paid artists and bands in the world for private performances.
• Keith Richards has about 3,000 guitars in his collection, but currently only plays ten. He plans to open a museum of his guitars.

Discography

List of songs by The Rolling Stones

The most outstanding songs of the group according to Rolling Stone magazine are:

Singles

• , June - Come On/I Want To Be Loved
• , november - I Wanna Be Your Man/Stoned
• , February - Not Fade Away/Little By Little
• , June - It's All Over Now/Good Times, Bad Times
• , november - Little Red Rooster/Off The Hook
• , February - The Last Time/Play With Fire
• , August - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/The Spider And The Fly
• , October - Get Off My Cloud/The Singer Not The Song
• , February - 19th Nervous Breakdown/As Tears Go By
• , June - Paint It, Black/Long Long While
• , September - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?/Who`s Driving Your Plane?
• , January - Let's Spend The Night Together/Ruby Tuesday
• , August - We Love You/Dandelion
• , May - Jumpin' Jack Flash/Child Of The Moon
• , July - Honky Tonk Women/You Can`t Always Get What You Want
• , April - Tumbling Dice/Sweet Black Angel
• , August - Angie/Silver Train
• , December - Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo(Heartbreaker)/Dancing With Mr.D.
• , July - It's Only Rock'N'Roll/Through The Lonley Nights
• , November - "Doom And Gloom"

Studio albums

The first albums of The Rolling Stones in England and the USA were released with different track lists.

• 1964 England's Newest Hit Makers (USA)
• 1964 12 X 5 (USA)
• 1965 The Rolling Stones, Now! (USA)
• 1965 December's Children (And Everybody's) (USA)
• 1967 Flowers (USA)
• 1967 Between the Buttons (UK\USA\Japan)
• 1973 Goats Head Soup
• 1974 It's Only Rock and Roll
• 1976 Black & Blue
• 1978 Some Girls
• 1980 Emotional Rescue
• 1981 Tattoo You
• 1983 Undercover
• 1986 Dirty Work
• 1989 Steel Wheels

Live albums

• 1966 Got Live If You Want It! (US)
• 1970 Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
• 1977 Love You Live
• 1982 still life(American Concert 1981)
• 1991 Flashpoint
• 1995 Stripped
• 1996 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
• 1998 No Security
• 2004 Live Licks
• 2008 Shine a Light
• 2011 Brussels Affair (Live 1973)
• 2011 The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas"78
• 2012 Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981)
• 2012 L.A. Friday (Live 1975)
• 2012 Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones Live At The Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981
• 2012 Live at the Tokyo Dome (Live 1990)
• 2012 Light the Fuse (Live 2005)

Collections

• 1966 Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (UK/US)
• 1967 Flowers
• 1969 Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (UK/US)
• 1971 Stone Age
• 1971 Gimme Shelter
• 1971 Hot Rocks 1964-1971
• 1972 Milestones
• 1972 Rock'n'Rolling Stones
• 1972 More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)
• 1973 No Stone Unturned
• 1975 Metamorphosis
• 1975 Made in the Shade
• 1975 Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones
• 1979 Time Waits for No One
• 1980 Solid Rock
• 1981 Slow Rollers
• 1981 Sucking in the Seveties
• 1982 In Concert
• 1982 Story of the Stones
• 1984 Rewind (1971-1984)
• 1989 Singles Collection: The London Years
• 1989 Les Années Stones 1
• 1990 Hot Rocks 1964-1971
• 1993 Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (UK)
• 2002 Forty Licks
• 2004 Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (US)
• 2005 Rarities 1971-2003
• 2012 Grrr!

Lineups

Current line-up

• Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, percussion, slide guitar (1962-present)
• Keith Richards - guitar, vocals, bass guitar, piano (1962-present)
• Ronnie Wood - guitar, backing vocals, saxophone, drums (1975-present)
• Charlie Watts - drums, percussion(1963-present)

Former members

• Brian Jones - guitar, sitar, keyboards, accordion, marimba, harmonica, dulcimer, percussion, cello, mandolin, saxophone, backing vocals (1962-1969) †
• Ian Stewart - keyboards, percussion (1962-1963; session musician: 1964-1966, 1968-1985) †
• Tony Chapman - drums (1962-1963)
• Dick Taylor - bass guitar (1962)
• Bill Wyman - Bas-guitar, marimba, organ, percussion, backing vocals (1962-1993, 2012)
• Mick Taylor - guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals (1969-1974, 2012)

Session musicians

• Chuck Leavell - keyboards, percussion (1982-present)
• Darryl Jones - bass guitar (1993-present)

Chronology of the group's line-up:

see also

• The Rolling Stones. Let there be light” - concert film by M. Scorsese.

Notes

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Literature

• Hector, James"The Complete Guide to Music: The Rolling Stones" (translated from English). - Moscow: Lokid, 1997. S. 10-21. - ISBN 5-86217-069-3.
• //SANDFORD, Christopher// Mick Jagger - just cool (translated from English). Moscow: Terra Book Club, 1999 ISBN 5-300-02446-5.
• Wyman, Bill The Rolling Stones (translated from English). - Moscow: Rosmen-Press, 2003. - ISBN 5-353-01086-8.
• Wyman, Bill Rolling with the Stones. - DK Publishing, 2002. - ISBN 0-7894-9998-3.
• Jagger, Mick; Richards, Keith; Watts, Charlie; Wood, Ronnie"According to the Rolling Stones". - Chronicle Books, 2003. - ISBN 0-8118-4060-3.
• Mankowitz, Gered The Rolling Stones - Out of Their Heads. Photographs 1965-67 and 1982". - [ISBN 3-89602-664-X]

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The Rolling Stones with Martin Scorsese

Exactly 50 years ago - on July 12, 1962 - the first concert of The Rolling Stones took place at the then-famous London Marquee Club. A few years later, Keith Richards and Brian Jones became the idol of the youth and trendsetters for the "dirty" and defiant image.

It is the most important rebels of the group Jagger and Richads, who went to elementary school together, are the founders of the team. Having met by chance on the street, they found out that they have a common passion - rock and roll. So, together with their mutual friend - Dick Taylor - the guys organized a group called Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Then guitarist Brian Jones joined the band.

The Rolling Stones

In July 1962, the group was invited to television, while playing in various clubs. It was during one of the performances that the band first appeared on stage under the name that everyone now knows - The Rolling Stones. From that moment begins the story of the legend.

Over the years of creativity, the musicians - then Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood joined the group - recorded more than 20 albums and gained scandalous fame, encouraging fights and brawls of fans at their concerts. Their fame as rebels has not faded to this day.

In 2010, The Rolling Stones re-released several of their albums and reached stellar heights, earning the title of "the world's greatest rock and roll band".

A photo album was released especially for the round date, and an exhibition was opened in London, which presents a kind of photo chronicle of the band's phenomenal success. For the 50th anniversary of the band, we decided to recall 10 interesting facts in the history of the band.

1. When the Rolling Stones played a concert on Copacabana Beach in Brazil in February 2006, 1.5 million fans came to listen.

2 . Many believe that the image of bright red lips and a brazen protruding tongue, which became the trademark of The Rolling Stones, was invented by artist Andy Warhol, who designed the logo on the cover of the 1971 Sticky Fingers album. This design was actually created by John Pash in 1970.

Emblem of The Rolling Stones

4. The well-known song of the Sympathy for the Devil band was written under the influence of Mikhail Bulgakov's book "The Master and Margarita". Before writing the song in 1966, Mick Jagger imagined himself as Woland.

5. In the video for The Rolling Stones song Anybody Seen My Baby, the famous actress Angelina Jolie played one of the first roles in her career.

6. The Rolling Stones performed twice in Russia: August 11, 1998 in Moscow and July 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg. Should I wait a third time?

7. The group released 22 studio albums in the UK (and 24 in the States), 8 live albums (9 in the States) and numerous compilations. Everything has sold over 200 million records worldwide.

8. The name The Rolling Stones was coined by guitarist Brian Jones, inspired by the Muddy Waters song Rolling Stone.

9. The famous brawler Keith Richards has an extensive collection of guitars, of which he has more than 3,000. He plans to open a museum dedicated to this musical instrument.

10. Their last tour, A Bigger Bang, ended in London in 2007, during which they played in 32 countries in front of 4.5 million fans, and became the second highest-grossing tour ($558 million) in the history of the music industry. For some time he held the first line of the rating, but the group U2 with the 360 ​​Degree tour displaced the Rolling Stones, earning $ 736.1 million.

It is known that the musicians got together several times for rehearsals. It is not yet clear whether this will result in a "golden" tour - rumors about this in the musical community have been circulating for several years. One can only hope that the musicians will reach Russia for the third time!

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1965 was the year of international recognition for the group. A triumphant tour in America cemented their reputation as the world's leading band. The song Satisfaction (I Can "t Get No), which later became world-famous, was especially successful with the Americans, taking the first lines of the American and British charts. The characteristic riff, which Keith Richards almost accidentally stumbled upon, became a kind of rock band label, as well as was picked up later by the "garage" bands. Hits of 1965 were also Get Off Of My Cloud and Got Live If You Want It, which entered the top ten. The group strove for unexpected and even sharp turns, choosing the stage image of rebels protesting against social conventions. In the fourth their album included such contrasting in style and content songs as Mother's Little Helper and Lady Jane. In the work of the group even features of misogyny appeared (Under My Thumb and Stupid Girl). The Rolling Stones' nihilism reached its peak with Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow?, which was loaded with swear words. Nevertheless, the group was accompanied by commercial success, their fees were constantly growing.

On the wave of resounding success, the musicians had problems - drugs. Almost the entire 1967 was marked by litigation regarding the offenses of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, related to drug use. Despite this, three albums were released in 1967, one of which bore the extravagant title of Their Satanic Majesties Request and was a psychedelic experiment. However, professional criticism did not appreciate him too highly. And only the single Jumping Jack Flash (1968) restored the former reputation of the musicians. The next album, Beggar's Banquet, also rose to the heights of their best achievements, especially in the songs Street Fighting Man and Sympathy For The Devil, which harmoniously merged Jagger's unique voice and hypnotic African rhythms.

In June 1969, Brian Jones, who was seriously suffering from drug addiction, was forced to leave the group; a month later, his body was found in the pool of a house in Sussex, the official medical report said that death was the result of an accident. Two days after his death, a grandiose concert in memory of the musician took place in London's Hyde Park, which gathered about 250 thousand spectators. A very important stage in the life of the Rolling Stones was the album Let It Bleed (1969), which parodied the famous Beatles song Let It Be. The album includes songs of various styles from country to blues. During the recording of the album, guitarist Mick Taylor (b. January 17, 1948) made his debut, replacing Jones.

The 1970s are considered the heyday of the Rolling Stones' mature craft, although it was during this time that the band experienced difficulties with Jagger's marriage and Richards' delinquency. However, the Rolling Stones continued to record. The album Goats Head Soup (1973) with the song Angie reached the top of the American charts. By 1977, the Rolling Stones style was somewhat supplanted by the new direction of punk, which was gaining momentum in popularity. But the Rolling Stones responded by releasing Some Girls (1978), which incorporated the best features of the band's work, including the catchy song Shattered. Beautifully performed in the disco style, the song Miss You, which brought the musicians the first place in the American charts, proved that the Rolling Stones are capable of self-development and renewal.

In 1980, Emotional Rescue reached number one on the national charts after a long hiatus, and the title hit reached the top ten. best songs on both sides of the Atlantic, although experts considered this music somewhat lightweight. The next album, Tattoo You (1981), despite the fact that it was a digest of the group's old recordings, sounded unexpectedly fresh and original, and the single Start Me Up recalled the band's best songs of the 1960s. The mid-range Rolling Stones records in the 1980s had rare but truly brilliant bursts of talent and musicianship. The video clip Undercover Of The Night, recorded in 1983, became the most remarkable event in the field of video of those years.

In the mid-1980s, there were persistent rumors about the imminent breakup of the group. But in 1989, the Rolling Stones announced that they were preparing to record a new joint album and a big foreign tour. The album, which was released soon, was very well received by critics, and the songs from this album Mixed Emotions and Rock And A Hard Place became instant hits. In the early 1990s, the Rolling Stones undertook an unprecedented foreign tour in the history of rock music, and in doing so, put an end to rumors about the breakup of the group.

The Rolling Stones are a rock band that have continued to perform and record for over 30 years. The musicians of the group have long become cult figures. Their latest albums Voodoo Lounge (1994), live Stripped (1995), Bridges To Babylon (1997) and A Bigger Bang (2005) with new versions of Street Fighting Man, Wild Horses and Let It Bleed still feature original sound, powerful energy , intense emotion. In December 2003, for "many years of service to the country and the Queen in the musical field", Mick Jagger was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first met at Dartford Primary School. Then for seven years they did not communicate and accidentally met again in 1961, one day the future guitarist of the Rolling Stones Keith saw Meek at the Dartford railway station, who was holding several phonograph records with rhythm and blues records. In the ensuing conversation, that they have a lot in common in their passion for rhythm and blues (unlike most of their peers who preferred rock and roll), and that they have a mutual friend - Dick Taylor, who studied at the Sidcup Art School . The three of them decided to create a group, which they gave the name Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys and learned several songs from the repertoire of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

Brian Jones was born and raised in Cheltenham. Like many of his peers, he was fond of skiffle, later - trad (short for "traditional jazz"). Influenced by recordings by Charlie Parker, Jones learned to play the saxophone and clarinet, later mastering the guitar and playing dances with local bands the Trad Band, Dixielanders and Delta Jazzmen. In 1959, Brian's sixteen-year-old girlfriend became pregnant, and because of the scandal that broke out, Brian dropped out of school and illegally left for Scandinavia, where he spent the summer, earning his living playing the guitar on the streets. Upon returning home, Brian became interested in the blues and began to periodically travel to London in search of like-minded people. Where in January 1962 he met Paul Pond (later in Manfred Mann's band under the pseudonym Paul Jones) and joined his band Thunder Odin's Big Secret.

Formation of the Rolling Stones

Some time later, one of the main British blues propagandists, Alexis Korner began regular performances with his band Blues Incorporated (whose drummer was Charlie Watts) at the Ealing Club in London. Brian Jones met Alexis Korner and joined his band as a session musician, playing slide guitar on the weekends under the pseudonym Elmo Lewis. In April 1962, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards visited the Ealing Club and saw the performance of Brian Jones, who made a great impression on them and got to know him after the concert. Becoming regulars at Ealing, they met Alexis Korner, who was allowed to listen to amateur recordings of his group. Some time later, the Blues Incorporated began to play at the Marquee Club as well; here they began to periodically appear as part of it - first Mick Jagger as a vocalist, then guitarist Keith Richards.

Brian Jones at this time decided to create his own rhythm and blues group and advertised accordingly in the Jazz News newspaper. The pianist Ian Stewart was the first to respond to this announcement, with whom Brian began rehearsals. In June, Mick and Keith visited one of the rehearsals of the newly formed group, after which it was decided to play together. On July 12, 1962, Blues Incorporated received an invitation to perform on the BBC. Since the band was scheduled to play at the Marquee at the same time, Corner invited Brian, Mick, Keith, Ian and Dick to enter the club scene. It was at this concert that the band (which also featured drummer Mick Ivory) performed for the first time under the name Rolling Stones, naming themselves after one of Muddy Waters' 1950 songs.

Debut of the Rolling Stones

In August 1962, Dick Taylor left the group and was replaced by Bill Wyman of The Cliftons, and Ivory (later joining The Kinks) was replaced by Tony Chapman, who soon gave way to Charlie Watts, who at that time worked in an advertising agency. By the beginning of 1963, the line-up stabilized and settled for 8 months at the Crawdaddy club, where it attracted the attention of, in particular, Andrew Lug Oldham, who bought the Rolling Stones from club manager Giorgio Gomelsky and immediately decided to create a “dirty » image - in defiance of the "clean" The Beatles. At his insistence, Stewart was ousted from the composition - only because he outwardly contrasted with the rest of the participants. The pianist did not lose contact with the group: he became one of the main stage workers and performed with them at concerts until his death in 1985. Having received a contract with Decca Records, The Rolling Stones released their debut single "Come On" (composition by Chuck Berry) in June, which rose to number 21 in Britain.

This was followed by "I Wanna Be Your Man" (Lennon-McCartney composition) and "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly, No. 3 in Britain and first hit in the US Top 50). By this time, The Rolling Stones had already become infamous at home: Oldham's bet on a "dirty" image worked. After the release of their debut album (in Britain it was called The Rolling Stones, in the USA - England's Newest Hit Makers The Rolling Stones), the group held their first American tour, during which they recorded Five by Five EP. By the time the tour ended, they already had their first UK chart topper: "Little Red Rooster" by Howlin' Wolfe.

From this point on, Oldham insisted that the band record exclusively their own compositions. In June 1964, the single "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" entered the US Top 40 and launched an endless string of Jagger-Richards hits. The author's duet raised "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (Summer 1965) to superstar status. Already in itself (later recognized as a classic) guitar riff (originally copying the sound of the brass section) made it clear that the Stones had broken away from the roots of traditional blues and went on their own path of development. The single stayed at the top of the American "lists" for 4 weeks; followed by the top ten one after another - "Get off My Cloud", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "As Tears Go By", "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?"

In 1966, The Rolling Stones decided to respond to the Beatles' radical path of development with their own excursion into psychedelia: Aftermath became the group's first album that did not contain cover versions. Brian Jones by this time was already fond of a wide variety of musical trends, and this was reflected in such things as "Paint It Black" (the sitar turned out to be the solo instrument here) or "Going Home".

Eclectic tendencies flourished further in Between The Buttons (1967); at the same time, here the sound of the group became lighter, the arrangements - more elegant. Two scandalous episodes prevented the group from finally joining the pop mainstream. First, Jagger had to perform "Let's Spend the Night Together" as inconspicuously as possible (otherwise the group was threatened with a ban on the BBC), then Jagger and Richards were arrested with drugs; 3 months later, the same thing happened to Jones. All three received suspended sentences, but the group had to temporarily withdraw from the focus of public attention, so the "summer of love of 67" she rested.

Jagger and girlfriend Marianne Faithfull took part in a trip organized by The Beatles to India to visit the Maharishi, after which they "lit up" on the international broadcast of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love". Unsurprisingly, The Rolling Stones' next single, "Dandelion"/"We Love You", had a pop-psychedelic feel to it. The experiment took even more radical forms in the album Their Satanic Majesties Request, which was a kind of "answer" to "Sgt. Peppers. However, the psychedelic period in the work of the group did not last long. By the beginning of 1968, she parted ways with Andrew Loog Oldham and invited Alain Klein to replace him, while returning (on a completely new technical level) to straightforward rock and roll. Keith Richards began to use an open tone, which made the band's sound thicker and heavier, as exemplified by the single "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (#3, U.K. in May 1968).

The Beggars Banquet album was released in the fall (preceded by a five-month-long cover-art scandal), and was immediately declared a masterpiece in the music press. But few could have imagined that the work, which marked a new era in the development of the group, would be the final in the personal creative saga of Brian Jones, who, due to problems with drug addiction, practically retired from work. On June 9, 1969, the guitarist left the line-up, and on July 3 he was found dead in his pool. It was officially announced that the cause of death was an accident, but the rumors around this incident did not subside for many years. By this time, a new guitarist, Mick Taylor, who came from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, was already playing in the group. However, he did not take part in the recording of the single-chart topper "Honky Tonk Women", which was released a few days after Jones' funeral, and played only a few parts in the album Let It Bleed, which continued the line begun in the previous work on the "roughening" of the sound and bringing it closer to the early, rough forms of the blues.

In 1969, after Jagger had finished filming Ned Kelly in Australia, the band went on their (first) American tour in three years, advertising them as "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band". After the death of a black fan at a concert in Altamont, the band was once again forced to retire and stopped performing "Sympathy for the Devil" - the song that (as the newspapers claimed at the time) initiated the riots. In the spring of 1970, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! was released, the band's last album for Decca/London. After that, she formed her own label, Rolling Stones Records, which began to function "under the wing" of Atlantic Records.

In 1970, Jagger starred in Nicholas Roeg's cult film Performance and married Nicaraguan model Bianca. This allowed Richards at some point to become the leader of the group: it was his musical ideas formed the basis for the Sticky Fingers album. Shortly after the release of the disc, the group, fleeing from paying taxes, hastily moved to France, where they recorded a double Exile on Main St., which, according to experts, marked the peak in its creative development. Then there was a crisis: Jagger became interested in the role of the hero of secular parties, Richards began to plunge into the maelstrom of drug addiction. This did not stop Goats Head Soup from becoming a mega hit, although the main hit from this album - the semi-acoustic ballad "Angie" (#5 in the UK Charts) - was rather coldly received by longtime fans of the group.

In 1972, the group went on an American tour. The musicians decided to document this tour, expecting it to be the greatest event in the band's history. For this, the photographer and film director Robert Frank, known for the photo album "The Americans" (1958) and the film about American beatniks "Pull My Daisy" (eng. Pull My Daisy, 1959), was invited. Frank, along with his assistant Danny Seymour, went on a tour with the band. The result was the documentary Cocksucker Blues (named after the band's obscene song written from the perspective of a homosexual prostitute), filmed in the spirit of cinema verite aesthetics and depicting the musicians, their wives and girlfriends at various points in the tour. The film shows erotic orgies, quarrels between musicians, there are scenes of repeated drug use. After the first viewing of the edited picture, Mick Jagger praised the result, but the film was forbidden to be copied and distributed by the group. Today, screen copies of it can be found on torrent trackers or bought on DVD - a lot of bootlegs have been released, but Cocksucker Blues has never been legally released.

1974 - present

After the release of It's Only Rock "n" Roll, Taylor left the line-up, and the group was already looking for a replacement while working on the next album, Black n "Blue (1976). After listening to many applicants (including Jeff Beck), RS chose on Ron Wood, guitarist of The Faces and Rod Stewart.In 1977, Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg were arrested in Canada for possession of heroin: this led to a trial that resulted in the guitarist receiving a year of probation.In 1978 (after Richards completed rehab), the band reunited and recorded Some Girls (which was influenced by both punk and disco). Both the album and its single, "Miss You," topped the charts in the US. Emotional Rescue (1980) was critically acclaimed, but Tattoo You (1981) marked a return to form and stayed at number one on the Billboard charts for nine weeks, with the band embarking on a world tour documented by Hal Ashby's Let's Spend the Night Together" and the live album Still Life.

Around this time, there were disagreements in the once monolithic creative union of Jagger-Richards. The first insisted that the group continuously develop, absorbing fashion trends; the second felt that The Rolling Stones should remain the "root" group. Discord could not but affect the quality of the following studio works: Undercover and (especially) Dirty Work music criticism considered a failure. By this time, Jagger and Richards were already engaged in active solo activities, and Richards' Talk Is Cheap album is considered by many to be the strongest (solo or collaborative) work of the RS members since 1982.

Album Steel Wheels received good feedback in the press, but was overshadowed by the $140 million world tour that followed. After graduation in 1991 live album Flashpoint (recorded during this tour) Bill Wyman left the line-up (he published the biographical book Stone Alone a few years later). Only in 1994 did the group find a permanent replacement for him in the person of Darryl Jones, known for his collaborations with Miles Davis and Sting.

With the new line-up (with producer Don Waze), RS recorded the album Voodoo Lounge, which brought them their first Grammy (for best rock album). In 1994-95, The Rolling Stones set an absolute record for the most profitable tour of all time - Voodoo Lounge, it became the most profitable tour of all time. The team played 62 shows instead of 28 and earned over $400 million. After the tour ended, the Rolling Stones released the acoustic album Stripped in the fall of 1995. Two years later for studio Bridges to Babylon; during the ensuing tour, the group broke their own record, earning about 500 million. Then came another live CD No Security. In 2002, the band held a highly publicized greatest-hits tour, followed by Live Licks (2004) and the studio's A Bigger Bang.

Place in history

The Rolling Stones were very different from The Beatles in terms of sound and image, their music was louder, harsher and richer in texts that were very frank for that period. The influence of The Rolling Stones on the formation and development of rock music cannot be overestimated - not only in musical terms, but also in artistic, visual, image and mass media terms. The group to this day remains absolutely original, recognizable from the first chords. Uncomplicated, it would seem, at the beginning, works, some of which at the first listening create a feeling of noise chaos, at subsequent listening appear as a full-fledged highly artistic artifact.

Many Rolling Stones albums, such as: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, Some Girls, Tattoo You, Steel Wheels, are recognized as classics of the genre. Not a single final, over the past 30 years, parade of the most important works of rock and roll in music publications can do without the first four of these albums. The song Satisfaction has become an internationally recognizable symbol of the Rolling Stones and rhythm and blues of the 1960s, without which no one concert of the group is complete.

Their work, extremely flexible in terms of reaction to this or that fad and musical fashion, nevertheless, has not undergone significant changes, and the author's style is always recognizable. They draw from the traditional blues, coloring it with every conceivable shade of emotion, rhythm and musical tricks. The list of hits or songs that are an example of a particular genre in the interpretation of the Rolling Stones will be an impressive volume, as well as a list of stars who collaborated with them from the artistic, cinematic, musical, political, mass media and simply bohemian environments. Now The Rolling Stones are an integral part of the history of the 20th century, smoothly flowing into the 21st.

The image of bright red lips and a brazenly protruding tongue, which has become the signature emblem of The Rolling Stones, was invented by Andy Warhol. They first appeared on the cover of the 1971 album Sticky Fingers, also designed by Warhol, and in a very non-standard way: the sleeve of the record showed jeans from the waist to the knees with a real zipper, under which the buyer found the very protruding tongue. Mick Jagger is the man who owns the world-famous phrase "Sex, drugs and rock and roll" The song "Sympathy for the Devil" was written under the influence of Mikhail Bulgakov's book "The Master and Margarita". Before writing the song in 1966, Mick Jagger himself imagined himself to be none other than Woland, but the book was only translated into English (Marianne Faithful gave Mick this book). The band's guitarist Ronnie Wood was born in a camp of British gypsies. On the cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper "s Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles is depicted, including a rag doll with the inscription: "Welcome the Rolling Stones".

Shooting in the video for the song of The Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby" - became one of the first roles of Angelina Jolie on her acting path. The first Rolling Stones museum in the world was built in Germany Already at the age of six, Keith Richards sang for the first time in front of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain - as part of a children's choir that performed at her coronation ceremony in 1949.

In 1964, shortly after the release of the debut album "The Rolling Stones", the UK was overwhelmed by real hysteria, which at concerts now and then turned into brawls. One of the most violent shows in the history of English rock and roll remains the band's concert at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, during which the fans began to destroy lamps, broke the Steinway piano and made a dump, as a result of which about fifty people healed their wounds in the hospital. It happened that in the very first minutes after the musicians appeared on the stage, emotions ran high to such an extent that the concerts had to be interrupted. Once Jones, Jagger and Bill Wyman publicly peed on the wall of a gas station, for which they were arrested; at photo shoots, the musicians dressed up in provocative women's dresses.

Jagger, Richards and Jones have been repeatedly arrested for drug possession, brought to trial and even received suspended sentences with probation. A question typical of English newspapers in 1964: "Will you let your daughter marry a member of The Rolling Stones?" - fully expressed the attitude of the establishment towards these "bad boys". In 1970, Mick Jagger tried his hand at cinema, starring in the cult film "Performance" directed by Nicholas Reg.

On July 3, 1969, Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in the courtyard of a house in Sussex, which was formerly owned by writer Alan Alexander Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh. The official version - death from an accident - immediately seemed doubtful to many. Rumors did not subside for another two years, there was even a version that this was the work of Mick Jagger. A concert in Hyde Park, two days after the death of Rolling Stones rhythm guitarist Brian Jones in 1969, attracted more than 250,000 spectators. During the show, Jagger released several thousand white butterflies into the sky. Keith Richards' villa on the French Riviera, where The Rolling Stones recorded their 1972 album Exile on Main Street, served as the headquarters of the Gestapo during World War II.

The portrait of Mick Jagger appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine a record number of times - 15. The first time it happened on August 10, 1968 in the 50th issue. The Rolling Stones earned the most for their advertising campaign: Microsoft paid the group $8 million to perform their hit "Start Me Up" in a Windows 95 commercial. rock music, embarked on one of the longest Bigger Bang tours of their career, lasting 14 months. The group donated $1 million of their royalties to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. The Rolling Stones top the list of the highest paid artists and bands in the world for private performances.

Keith Richards has about 3,000 guitars in his collection, but currently only plays ten. He plans to open a museum of his guitars. The 1994 album Voodoo Lounge brought The Rolling Stones their first two (and so far last) Grammy Awards. It was named the best rock album, and the video for the song "Love Is Strong" was named the best short video. Guitarist Keith Richards, who celebrated his 60th birthday in 2003, was called the biggest brawler in the history of rock music by viewers of VH1. As a consistent conductor of the principle "sex, drugs, rock and roll", he is ahead of such competitors as Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Lee and the Gallagher brothers. Records of many famous rock bands (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin) were recorded at the band's mobile studio, known as the Rolling Stones Mobile.

The Rolling Stones performed twice in Russia: August 11, 1998 in Moscow, just before the default, and July 28 in St. Petersburg. When playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Johnny Depp tried to imitate the walk and manner of speaking of Keith Richards, who is one of his favorite musicians. In the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", at the request of Depp, the musician played the father of Jack Sparrow - Captain Teague.

The song "She's a Rainbow" was used in an advertisement for Sony products. In 2005, the song "Angie" was used by the Democratic Union of Germany in the election campaign of Angela Merkel. Interestingly, without permission from The Rolling Stones or their agents. However, legal issues the party managed to settle with the German copyright management agency.