The Rolling Stones: Difference between revisions

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band. The band formed in 1962 in London when original leader Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist [[Keith Richards]], whose songwriting partnership later contributed to their taking the leadership role in the group. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup. Ian Stewart was removed from the official lineup in 1963 but continued to work with the band as road manager and keyboardist until his death in 1985.

The Rolling Stones have released 22 studio albums in the UK (24 in the US), eight concert albums (nine in the US) and numerous compilations; and have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. ''Sticky Fingers'' (1971) began a string of eight consecutive studio albums that charted at number one in the United States. In 1989 The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 they were ranked number 4 in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Their image of unkempt and surly youth (originally cultivated in large part to contrast them with [[The Beatles]]) is one that many musicians still emulate.

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* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]

* [[Paint It Black]]

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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Ronnie Wood: You know you have a drinking problem when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards need to talk to you about it.

** Pretty [[Irony|ironic]] if you know the lyrics.

* [[Bathroom Stall Graffiti]]: The ''Beggars Banquet'' cover. Decca Records found it so offensive at the time that they refused to use it, substituting a [[Minimalistic Cover Art|plain white cover]] with a fake dinner invitation instead. The bathroom cover would eventually be restored for the album's CD reissue.

** To add to that story, Richards only stopped Jagger from falling out of the window because Mick was wearing Keith's wedding jacket at the time.

* [[Biopic]]: ''Stoned'' (2005) centers on the life, career, and death of Brian Jones (albeit [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|with embellishments]]).

* [[Casanova]]: Mick Jagger.

** However, it's been noted that Bill Wyman probably bagged more chicks than Jagger and the rest of the band combined... this includes ex-guitarists.

* [[Ice Queen]]: "She's So Cold"

* [[Iconic Logo]]: Possibly the most famous band logo of all time.

* [[International Pop Song English]]

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: A sex symbol and [[The Casanova|a ladies' man]] in his younger years, Mick Jagger now looks more like a mummy. [[Kavorka Man|Doesn't stop him]] from getting his fare share of poontang.

** [[Your Mileage May Vary|Facade?]]

* [[Last Chorus Slow-Down]]: "Ruby Tuesday"

** ''Gimme Shelter'', a [[Documentary]] of their disastrous 1969 free concert at Altamont Speedway, has been viewed by some as a meditation on the death of the Sixties.

* [[Short Lived Big Impact]]: Brian Jones — founded The Rolling Stones, who were the main influences of bands like ACDC, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, etc, who pioneered the Heavy Metal genre. He also was dead by age 27.

* [[Line-of-Sight Name]]: Brian Jones supposedly came up with the band's name while trying to get a club booking on the telephone. When the venue's manager asked Jones what his newly-formed group called themselves, he looked at a Muddy Waters album that was sitting on the floor and noticed the first track, "Rollin' Stone Blues".

* [[Stage Names]]: "Bill Wyman" was born William George Perks.

** Keith Richards billed himself as "Keith Richard" in the '60s and '70s, in emulation of early British rocker Cliff Richard.

* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: "Gimme Shelter"

* [[Take That]]: When their former record company told them they were obligated to deliver one more single, the band gave them the unreleasable "Cocksucker Blues". [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|It was released in Germany and did well there, though.]]

* [[Textless Album Cover]]: ''Their Satanic Majesties Request'', ''It's Only Rock 'n Roll'', ''A Bigger Bang''

** The original UK version of their debut album was textless apart from the standard Decca logo (a rather bold move for the early '60s, especially for a bunch of then-unknowns). This was also done for ''Rolling Stones No. 2'' and the UK version of ''Between the Buttons''.

* [[Three Dimensional Episode]]: The cover of the ''Their Satanic Majesties Request'' album originally featured a lenticular 3-D image of the band.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Richards and Jagger both have described their relationship with one another as this.

** For what it's worth, though, they've got one foot each in [[Heterosexual Life Partners]].