The Rolling Stones

THE ROLLING STONES

The Rolling Stones is a British rock band officially
formed by Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Dick
Taylor, Ian Stewart and Tony Chapman in May 1962 in London,England. Known as the world’s greatest rock n’ roll band, they keep proving it over and over again.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were childhood friends until Keith’s family moved apart. Some yearslater they met each other in a train station and discover that they had similar interest in music and re-established their friendship and decide to form a band. They chose ‘Rollin’ Stones’ as name ofthe band because of an Muddy Waters’ song. All of them shared admiration for Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Chuck Berry and other blues musician.

To understand the evolution in music andsociety in general that the Rolling Stones did, it’s necessary to take yourself back to the 60’s. Popular culture didn’t exist, but suddenly popular music became bigger than it had ever been: “Itbecame an important, perhaps the most important, art form of the period, after not at all being regarded as an art form before” says Mick Jagger. Soon, of course, the Stones became synonymous with therebellious attitude of that era. Songs like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Street Fighting Man,” “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Gimme Shelter” captured the violence, frustration and chaos of thattime. Success came to the Stones rather quickly as they transformed from a blues band to a rock band. In the coming years the Stones would experiment with just about every kind of rock music out there.But still, they would never wander too far from the blues. It was Jones and Richards who wrote the blueprint for rock guitar weaving that so many other bands would soon partake in. Jones was also thefirst white man to play slide guitar and played it superbly. Richards in time would be known as one of rock's best ever rhythm guitar players and his guitar riffs became the trademark sound of the...