History Music / TheRollingStonesBand

The Stones were formed in UsefulNotes/{{London}} in June of 1962, when guitarist and original leader Music/BrianJones recruited pianist Ian "Stu" Stewart, soon followed by vocalist Music/MickJagger, who brought along guitarist Music/KeithRichards. After a series of fill-ins, bassist Bill Wyman joined up in December 1962 and drummer Charlie Watts in January 1963, completing the first stable line-up. After the band recruited Andrew Loog Oldham to be their manager, Stewart was removed from the official line-up, as Oldham felt that six members were too many, and Stewart was the odd one out image-wise. However, Stu took the demotion admirably well and continued to work with the band as road manager and main pianist and keyboardist until his death in 1985.

The Stones were formed in UsefulNotes/{{London}} in June of 1962, when guitarist and original leader Music/BrianJones recruited pianist Ian "Stu" Stewart, soon followed by vocalist Music/MickJagger, who brought along guitarist Music/KeithRichards. Following a series of fill-ins, bassist Bill Wyman joined up in December 1962 and drummer Charlie Watts in January 1963, completing the first stable line-up. After the band recruited Andrew Loog Oldham to be their manager, Stewart was removed from the official line-up, as Oldham felt that six members were too many, and Stewart was the odd one out image-wise. However, Stu took the demotion admirably well and continued to work with the band as road manager and main pianist and keyboardist until his death in 1985.

* 2023 - ''Hackney Diamonds''

They have released 23 studio albums in the UK (25 in the US), 19 live albums, and numerous compilations; and have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. ''Music/StickyFingers'' from 1971 began a string of eight straight studio albums that charted at number one in the United States. In 1989, The Rolling Stones were inducted into the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame. In 2004 and again in 2011, they were ranked at number four 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 Music/TheBeatles) is one that many musicians still emulate. The band's attitude and style were major influences on HardRock, HeavyMetal, PunkRock, and AlternativeRock bands that followed them.

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[[caption-width-right:350: The classic [[TheSixties '60s]] line-up of the Rolling Stones. From\\
left to right: Music/MickJagger, Music/BrianJones, Music/KeithRichards,\\
Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts.]]

The Rolling Stones are a British blues-based rock band which has been described (first by stage manager Sam Cutler in 1969) as "The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band" and has been doing its best to justify the description for more than ''[[LongRunners half a century]]''.

The Stones were formed in UsefulNotes/{{London}} in June of 1962, when guitarist and original leader Music/BrianJones recruited pianist Ian "Stu" Stewart, soon followed by vocalist Music/MickJagger, who brought along guitarist Music/KeithRichards. After a series of fill-ins, bassist Bill Wyman joined in December 1962 and drummer Charlie Watts joined in January 1963, completing the first stable line-up. After the band recruited Andrew Loog Oldham as their manager, Stewart was removed from the official line-up, as Oldham felt that six members were too many, and Stewart was the odd one out image-wise. However, Stu took the demotion admirably well and continued to work with the band as road manager and main pianist and keyboardist until his death in 1985.

* PermanentPlaceholder: Since bassist Bill Wyman's departure in 1993 and drummer Charlie Watts's death in 2021, the Stones haven't officially replaced their positions out of respect to them, with Darryl Jones and Steve Jordan getting credited as guest bassist and drummer, respectively. Though Wyman would return as a bassist for the Stones' 2023 album ''Hackney Diamonds''.

They have released 23 studio albums in the UK (25 in the US), 19 live albums, and numerous compilations; and have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. ''Music/StickyFingers'' from 1971 began a string of eight straight studio albums that charted at number one in the United States. In 1989, The Rolling Stones were inducted into the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame. In 2004 and again in 2011, 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 Music/TheBeatles) is one that many musicians still emulate. The band's attitude and style were major influences on HardRock, HeavyMetal, PunkRock, and AlternativeRock bands that followed them.

The band's early recordings largely consisted of covers of American blues and R&B songs, while their earliest self-penned numbers were credited under the collective pseudonym Nanker/Phlege. After first achieving success in the UK with a cover of [[Music/TheBeatles Lennon and [=McCartney=]'s]] "I Wanna Be Your Man" in late 1963, they crossed the Atlantic as part of the first wave of UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion in 1964. However, their first U.S. tour was famously a disaster, with the Stones having no major hit to tour on, getting mocked by Music/DeanMartin on national TV, and regularly failing to sell tickets well. Their big breakthrough came in 1965, when their singles "The Last Time" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", as well as their third album ''Music/OutOfOurHeads'', shot the Stones into superstardom on both sides of the pond. By this time, Jagger and Richards had taken the leadership role from Jones in the group, largely on the strength of their now-fertile songwriting partnership.

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* StageNames: "Bill Wyman" was born William George Perks.