the rolling stones

     

The Rolling Stones are an English ban whose music was initially based on rhythm and blues and rock & roll. Formed in London and having their first success in the UK, they subsequently became popular in the US during the "British Invasion" in the early 1960s.

Trivia about the rolling stones

  • "I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm 45", said this band's Mr. Jagger, grandfather of 2
  • "Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street", says this group's "Street Fighting Man"
  • "Fool to Cry" was a Top 10 hit for this group in '76, which must have given them "Satisfaction"
  • Their first million-selling record was "Satisfaction" which, in fact, sold 4½ million
  • The big hit off this group's 1973 album "Goats Head Soup" was "Angie"
  • Led by Mick Jagger, this group has been called the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band"
  • 1997 marks the 35th anniversary of when Mick Jagger & this group first got together
  • Brian Jones,Keith Richards
  • This group's last No. 1 hit in the '60s was "Honky Tonk Women"
  • Mick Jagger & this group have had a satisfying career with hits like "Satisfaction" & "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
  • It took 30 years & an album called "Voodoo Lounge" for this British group to win its first Grammy
  • "Let It Bleed","Tattoo You","Beggars Banquet"
  • In Sept. 1989 this English rock group introduced its own line of clothes
  • "Forty Licks" (2002) & "Hot Rocks: 1964-1971 "
  • 1981:The "Tattoo You" tour
  • Liz Phair's debut album "Exile In Guyville" was a loose response to this group's "Exile On Main Street"
  • Mick Jagger was a finance student at the London School of Economics before cashing in with this band
  • In a 1966 hit this group wanted you to "Paint It, Black"
  • The Dead was scheduled to play at this group's ill-fated 1969 show at Altamont Speedway but refused to go on
  • On Sept. 23, 1997 this aged rock group kicked off its "Bridges To Babylon" tour to everyone's "Satisfaction"
  • In the 1960s this still-rocking British rock band took its name from a Muddy Waters blues classic
  • "Play with Fire" from this Group's 1965 album "Out of Our Heads" featured Phil Spector on bass
  • The song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by this band was a No. 1 hit way back in 1965
  • This band's "Bridges to Babylon" tour video featured performances by Dave Matthews & Joshua Redman
  • Martin Scorcese decided to "Shine a Light" on this legendary rock group