The Rolling Stones
Written by Admin Musician Online on February 22, 2010 – 1:34 pm -The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in 1962 in London when Brian Jones, the multi-instrumentalist and Ian Stewart, famous pianist combined with Keith Richards, the guitarist and Mick Jagger, the vocalist. Charlie Watts, the drummer and Bill Wyman, the Bassist finished the early lineup. Stewart who was considered not suitable as teen idol, was got rid off from the official group in 1963 but he joined as the road manager of the band and as casual keyboardist till his death in 1985. After they signed to the Decca Records during the year 1963, the band name changed to “The Rolling Stones” from “the Rollin’ Stones”.
Richards and Jagger formed a partnership during the year 1963 and they started the leadership of the band since Jones was more erratic and troubles. After they recorded the covers of R&B and American blues songs, the studio record they produced since the album Aftermath in the year 1966, all of them featured mainly Richards/Jagger songs. Mick Taylor replaced Brian Jones just before his death in the year 1969. In the year 1974, Taylor quit the band and he replaced in the year 1975 by guitarist Ronnie Wood who stayed in the band ever since. Wyman left the band in the year 1992, and then Darryl Jones who was not the official member of the band has remained as the main bassist since the year 1994.
The Rolling stones toured the entire United States several times during the early 1960s though they were more popular in United Kingdom. The band has released twenty two studio albums in UK and twenty four in US, 8 concert albums in UK and Nine in United States and myriad compilations and their worldwide album sales is estimated to be more than two hundred million overall. They had a sequence of eight consecutive studio albums starting with sticky Fingers in the year 1971 and they became top in United Staes. Their recent album, The Bigger bang got released during the year 2005. During the year 1989, the Rollin stones got introduced into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they were ranked as No. 4 among 100 greatest artists of All time in the Rolling stone magazine. Billboard magazine ranked this band as Number 10 during the year 2008 in “The Billboard Hot 100 Top all time artists” which made them as the 2nd most successful band in Billboard hot 100.
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