THE ROLLING STONES TURN SIXTY TODAY!!! July 12 1962 is where it officially all started on of world’s greatest rock’n’roll band!! Join us in celebrating.
Brian Jones founded the Rolling Stones as a British blues outfit in 1962, and gave the band its name, Jones’ fellow band members Keith Richards and Mick Jagger began to take over the band’s musical direction, especially after they became a successful songwriting team.
The Rolling Stones were Brian Jones’ band. He was the blues junkie and the most versatile musician in the group. It was even his idea to name the band after a classic Muddy Waters song. And he was the one who shaped the band’s early musical directions – from the gritty R&B and blues mix they played at first to the psychedelic freak outs the Stones got caught up in during the mid-’60s. He was also the group’s first casualty, wrecked by drugs that distanced him from his bandmates. Less than a month after Jones was fired from the group he helped form, he drowned in his swimming pool at the age of 27. Our list of the Top 10 Brian Jones Rolling Stones Songs aren’t necessarily the band’s greatest tracks, but the songs that Jones made great.
* Formed: 1962
* Selected Discography: ‘Exile on Main St.’ (1972), ‘Beggars Banquet’ (1968), ‘Let It Bleed’ (1969)
* Related Artists: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood
Origin: London, England
Genres
* Rock blues pop rock hard rock rock and roll
Years active: 1962–present
Labels
* Decca London Rolling Stones Virgin ABKCO Interscope Polydor Columbia Atlantic
Current Members
* Mick Jagger
* Keith Richards
* Ronnie Wood
Past members
* Brian Jones
* Ian Stewart
* Bill Wyman
* Charlie Watts
* Mick Taylor
Website: rollingstones.com
Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, also being identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material as “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965), “Get Off of My Cloud” (1965) and “Paint It Black” (1966) became international No. 1 hits. Aftermath (1966) – their first entirely original album – is considered the most important of their formative records. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit “Ruby Tuesday”/”Let’s Spend the Night Together” and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. They returned to their roots with such hits as “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968) and “Honky Tonk Women” (1969), and albums such as Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring “Sympathy for the Devil”, and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Gimme Shelter”. Let It Bleed was the first of five consecutive No. 1 albums in the UK.
Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. That year they were first introduced on stage as ‘The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’. Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded “Brown Sugar” and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the US. Exile on Main St. (1972), featuring “Tumbling Dice” and Goats Head Soup (1973), yielding the hit ballad “Angie”, were also best sellers. Taylor was replaced by Ronnie Wood in 1974. The band continued to release successful albums, including their two largest sellers: Some Girls (1978), featuring “Miss You”; and Tattoo You (1981), featuring “Start Me Up”. Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994), a worldwide number one album. Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours, as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction; by 2007 they had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time. From Wyman’s departure in 1993 to Watts’ death in 2021, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones playing bass on tour and on most studio recordings. Their 2016 album, Blue & Lonesome, became their twelfth UK number-one album.
The Rolling Stones’ estimated record sales of 200 million make them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The band has won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. In 2019, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones second on their list of the “Greatest Artists of All Time”, based on US chart success. In 2010, they were ranked fourth on Rolling Stone’s list of the Greatest Artists of All Time.
Early history
* 1962–1964: Building a following
* 1965–1967: Height of fame
* 1968–1972: Jones’ departure and death, “Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World”
* 1972–1977: Critical fluctuations and Ronnie Wood
* 1978–1982: Commercial peak
* 1983–1988: Band turmoil and solo projects
* 1989–1999: Comeback and record-breaking tours
* 2000–2011: A Bigger Bang and continued success
* 2012–2016: 50th anniversary, documentary and Blue & Lonesome
* 2017–present: No Filter Tour, Jagger’s surgery, new album and Watts’s death
