The Rolling Stones - the legend

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The Rolling Stones, formed in London, England circa 1962, are one of the world’s most popular rock music groups, selling over 68 million RIAA certified albums in the US alone. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and have performed in approximately 40 countries.

The group was formed by Brian Jones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met as schoolmates in Dartford, Kent. They took their name from a Muddy Waters song called “Rollin’ Stone Blues”, and made their live debut in July 1962 at London’s Marquee Club (minus Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts). They start playing pubs and clubs around the city and suburbs. Bill Wyman joined later that year (the popular story is that he was asked because he had his own amplifier), replacing Dick Taylor, who started the Pretty Things.

In January 1963, Charlie Watts joined the Stones. The band gigged constantly, with residencies at venues like Ealing Jazz Club, Ken Colyer’s Studio 51, and Eel Pie Island in Twickenham. Their weekly peformances at the Crawdaddy at Richmond’s Station Hotel resulted in ecstatic press reviews, and in April press agent Andrew Loog Oldham saw them there and signed them to his management company the next day. He started the “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone” press campaign, which set the tone for their career, which has included drug arrests, and many notorious incidents.

In May 1963, the Stones were signed to Decca Records, supposedly by the same man who had turned down the Beatles. A month later “Come On”, the first Rolling Stones single, was released, and reached number two in the U.K. charts.

Rolling Stones discography

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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup. Stewart, deemed unsuitable as a teen idol, 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.

Early in the band's history Jagger and Richards formed a songwriting partnership and gradually took over leadership of the band from the increasingly troubled and erratic Jones. At first the group recorded mainly covers of American blues and R&B songs, but since the 1966 album Aftermath, their releases have mainly featured Jagger/Richards songs. Mick Taylor replaced an incapacitated Jones shortly before Jones's death in 1969. Taylor quit in 1974, and was replaced in 1975 by Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood, who has remained with the band ever since. Wyman left the Rolling Stones in 1992; bassist Darryl Jones, who is not an official band member, has worked with the group since 1994.

First popular in the UK and Europe, The Rolling Stones came to the US during the early 1960s "British Invasion". 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. Their latest album, A Bigger Bang, was released in 2005. 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 is one that many musicians still emulate.

Rolling Stones discography:

The Singles Vol. 7: 1970-1972
The Singles Volume Six: 1969-1970
James Brown: Live At Chastain Park 1985
The Original Funk Soul Brother - Live In New York 1980
And I Do Just What I Want
Playlist Plus
The Singles Volume 5: 1967-1969
The Legend of James Brown
Cold Sweat Live
Live - Try Me
The Singles Volume 3: 1964-1965
Jazz
Gold
The Singles Vol 2
Number 1's
A Night with James Brown - Live
The Godfaher of Soul - Live
I Feel Good, and other Hits, Live!
Tell Me What Your Gonna Do
The Federal Years: 1956-1960
Live At Montreux 1981
Funk It! - Remixed Hits
James Brown's I Got The Feelin'
Prisoner Of Love - EP
On Stage CD1
The Godfather of Soul
I Feel Good - Live!
Live At Chastain Park
Live Dynamite CD1
Live Dynamite CD2
Rhythm of Life (A Saxual Experience)
Golden Legends: James Brown Live
A James Brown Christmas
20th Century Masters: The Millennium...
70's Funk Classic [Collectables]
Give It Up or Turn It Loose
Greatest Hits [Collectables]
The Godfather of Soul [Bonus DVD]
Platinum & Gold Collection
Godfather of Soul
Live At The Apollo 1962
Music Legends: James Brown Live in Concert
Greatest Soul on Earth
It's Too Funky in Here
20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: James Brown
Live Top Ten With Special Guests
The 50th Anniversary Collection
Hall of Fame
Motherlode
In Concert
The Tuxedo
The Next Step
Original Funk Soul Brother [2002]
James Brown & Friends
Super Bad: Live
20th Century Masters: The Millennium... Vol. 2
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of James Brown
The Legends Collection: The James Brown Collection
James Brown Live [Delta]
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag [Goldies]
Get up Offa That Thing [2001]
Remixed Dance Hits
Ballads
Forever Gold Live
James Brown's Funky People, Pt. 3
James Brown [Magic Collection]
The Merry Christmas Album
Cold Sweat [Hallmark]
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection...
Prisoner of Love [Madacy]
Masters [Cleopatra]
Gold Collection [Fine Tune]
Say It Live And Loud: Live In Dallas 1968
Dead On The Heavy Funk (1975-83)
Sex Machine [Masters]
Jam '80
I'm Back
Live
Greatest Hits (Polygram)
40th Anniversary Collection
Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975
Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang
Foundations Of Funk: 1964-1969
Funky Christmas
Live At The Apollo 1995
The Best of James Brown [Prime Cuts]
Christmas
70's Funk Classics
Tell Me What You're Gonna Do
Living In America
At Studio 54
Turn It Loose
Soul Pride: The Instrumentals (1960-1969)
Universal James
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
The Greatest Hits Of The Fourth Decade
Is Back
Spank
Soul's Alive
Love Over-due
Star Time
20 All-Time Greatest Hits!
Soul Jubilee
Messing With The Blues
Soul Session Live
Roots Of A Revolution
Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
I'm Real
The CD of JB II
In The Jungle Groove
Gravity
Soul Syndrome
It's a Man's Man's Man's World (Live in New York 1980)
Sex Machine Today
Reality
Hell
The Payback
Black Caesar
Get On The Good Foot
There It Is
Love Power Peace: Live At The Olympia, Paris, 1971
Hot Pants
Revolution Of The Mind
Soul On Top
Sex Machine
Gettin' Down To It
Say It Loud: I'm Black And I'm Proud
Live At The Apollo
Live At The Apollo Vol. 2: Deluxe Edition
Out of Sight
Live at the Apollo [1963]
Live At The Apollo, 1962
Think!
Please, Please, Please
Try Me!

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