On 26th July 1943, five months after the birth of Brian Jones, the fourth prospective member of the Rolling Stones (after Charlie Watts 2nd june 1941, Bill Wyman 24th October 1941 and Brian Jones 28th February 1942) was born. It was then in Dartford, Kent, that Mrs Eva Jagger gave birth to a son named Michael. Just four-and-a-half months after the birth of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards was born, and in the same place, Dartford. Date 18th December 1943. Mrs. Doris Richards's son Keith went to the same school as Mick Jagger, but he disliked the lessons. Mick Jagger and his life-long friend Keith Richards have become a very succesfull songwriting team, having together composed dozens of fantastic songs and all of the Rolling Stones' biggest hits.

The Rolling Stones are a globally popular English musical group that helped spearhead the British Invasion of the early 1960s. Formed in London in 1962 by Brian Jones, the group began playing American Blues, R&B and Rock n' Roll, and later played other genres including country, psychedelia, Reggae, and disco. The Stones' image of unkempt and surly youth is one many musicians still emulate. During their 1969 American tour, the Stones were introduced and have often since been referred to as "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World." The band has released a total of 29 albums of original work and compilations, and have had 37 top-10 singles. In 1989 the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 they were rated #4 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time

Rolling Stones 1962

Later they met Brian Jones in pub called the Bricklayer's Arms in London's Soho, there was nothing special about the pub, except that it was Mick and Keith 'local'. In that pub Brian Jones first met and talked with his future partners. Sometimes later Mick Jagger sent Alexis Korner some tapes of the music he'd been producing with Keith and Dick Taylor. Alexis Korner was the king of rhythm-and-blues music in London. He liked the music and agreed to meet the future Rolling Stones. Out of that meeting came th 333k103d e agreement that Mick and Keith would sit in with Korner on some dates. Brian Jones was also at the meeting and he become very interested in the activities of Keith and Mick. They in their turn became very interested in the drummer of the Alexis Korner band, his name was Charlie Watts.

They decided to start a band of their own and they found a flat in Chelsea. The best name for a band was 'the Rolling Stones' taken from a track from a Muddy Waters album they owned.

Mick, Keith, Brian, Dick and Ian Stewart (later Stones road manager) played in the Bricklayer's Arms. People were beginning to wonder if this group might really have a big change of becoming succesful. In the summer of 1962 came the break, the Rolling Stones had the good fortune of deputizing for Alexis Korner in the Marquee Club. The group got regular work in the Club. Charlie left the Alexis Korner band and joined the Stones. Dick Taylor had left the band because he wanted to concentrate on his studies. Bill Wyman went to see the band playing at the Wetherby Arms in Chelsea, after rehearsing he decided to join the band. Ian Stewart too was still with the group, playing the piano and organ.

First release '63

Begin 1963 it looked as things were really beginning to happen, they played in a lot of clubs. An article in the Record Mirror by Norman Jopling wrote: "the group is red-hot, genuine R&B". Andrew Oldham saw the band and decided that he would become their manager together with Eric Easton.
In the second week of May the Stones went to the Olympic Studios to record the first of the group's releases and begin their immense repertoire. The tapes were sent to Decca and they accepted them; the results were their first singles: "Come on " and "I want to be loved".
The Stones were beginning to go out on the radio waves by Radio Luxemburg, so their sound could be heard all over Europe. In July the Stones made their debut in a major British pop television show of that time: "Thank you lucky stars". The reaction of the adult viewers was anger.

The second Stones single, I Wanna Be Your Man was written by Lennon and McCarthy and was produced by Eric Easton. Before this single was released the group went on the first tour of the United Kingdom, but not at the top of the bill, Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers were billed higher. This first Rolling Stones tour gave thousands of people a change to see just how great they are. The tour was a great success. At a rehearsel for 'Thank you Lucky stars' they met Gene Pitney. Jagger and Richards told him they'd written a song which they thought would suit his singing style. The song was 'That Girl Belongs To Yesterday' and became a big hit in America and the UK. Not only a success for Gene Pitney but also for Jagger/Richards as a songwriting duo. I wanna be your man was released in November in the UK (flip side in the UK was Stoned). In France an EP was released with Money, Bye bye Johnny and You better move on.

The Rolling Stones, 1964. (From left) Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards

Breakthrough 1964

The Rolling Stones started 1964 with an EP (Extended Play) with the same songs as in France except I wanna be your man was replaced by Poison Ivy . After this EP came Not Fade Away a huge success in the UK, the single also entered the US Top 100, beginning to make a break in the United States.

On 16th April their first long-player was released in the Great Britain some tracks: Route 66, I Need You Baby, Carol, Tell Me. The album was simply titled 'the Rollings Stones' . In the USA a track from the album was released and immediately sold 150.000 copies, that track was: Tell me . On the 2nd June they went to New York and did a number of gigs in the USA. In Chicago they recorded many new tracks for future new singles.

During that session in Chicago which was supervised by Andrew Oldham, the Stones were very impressed by three guests who came to see them, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. The tour's highlight was at New York's Carnegy Hall. On 28th June their fourth single was released: It's all over now and on the B-side: Good times, Bad times ; a number one in the UK. Andrew Oldham wanted to give up his co-management of the Rolling Stones, he needed more time for discovering and recording new artists. One of them was Marianne Faithfull , a 17 year old girl, who recorded As tears go by , another Jagger/Richards composition. Later the Stones themselves were to record this beautiful song.

The Rolling Stones, EP, 1964

In August '64 the Rolling Stones' second EP, titled ' Five by Five ', was released in Britain. Sales of EP were huge. In September they went on their fourth tour of the United Kingdom, visiting thirty-seven cities and towns in as many days. After a short tour through Europe they flew out of London airport, bound for New York and their second Stateside tour. A new album '12 By 5' was now in the American record stores. The tracks on that album were: Around and Around, Confessin' The Blues, Empty heart, Time Is On My Side, Good Times, It's All Over Now, 2120 South Michigan Avenue, Under The Boardwalk, Congratulations, Grown Up Wrong, If You Need Me and Susie-Q. While the Stones were on the West Coast of the USA they recorded many tracks for a future LP, with the possibility of a couple of the songs were being released as singles.

November 1964 their fifth single was released: Little Red Rooster and Off the Hook, it entered the New Musical Express chart straight into number one. 1964 had been a very succesfull year for the Stones; it was almost nothing compared to what was to come in 1965.

Concert impression

In 1964 they gave their first concert in the Netherlands in Scheveningen (near The Hague). This concert however lasted not even half an hour, because severe riots broke out and the police had to intervene and stop the concert. The building (Kurhaus) was demolished, chairs were flying around. Girls underwear, as Keith said, was hanging in the chandleleers. It was really a night to remember.

In 1998 they were be back in The Hague in September for a very rainy show at the Malieveld.

Satisfaction - 1965

The year 1965 started for`the Stones with a success, but not a big success as might have been expected. At the beginning of January a new single was released in the USA: Heart of Stone with What A Shame on the flip side. It's highest position in de US Top 100 was 15, not quite as big a success as had been hoped. In the UK the second album was released on 15th January, simply titled 'The Rolling Stones No. 2' . Much of the songs were identical to the American album 12 By 5, with some exceptions: Everybody Needs Somebody To Love, You Can't Catch Me, Down The Road Apiece, What A Shame and Pain In My Heart. After recording a couple of songs in Los Angeles, they boared a jet to Sydney Australia where they gave three concerts in the Auditorium, wildly successfull. They also went to New Zealand and Singapore. On 25th February their next single was released: The Last Time and Play With Fire.

During their fifth UK tour, Andrew Oldham had arranged to have recordings in London, Manchester and Liverpool.In May they recorded in Chicago songs like:

That's How Strong My Love Is and Mercy, Mercy, this was during their third USA tour. On the 25th of June their seventh American single entered the US Top 100: Satisfaction, with on the B-side: The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man. I Can't Get No Satisfaction was recorded in the RCA Studios in Hollywood; in Great Britain an EP was released: 'Got Live If You Want It'. Satisfaction was number one in all the charts in America, news which staggered the Rolling Stones, this was the group's first number one in the United States. The record was released in Britain on 25th August, with as a flip site: The Spider and The Fly. In the rest of Europe the single was the same as in the States. Meanwhile they performed in Dublin, Blackpool, the Isle of Man, they performed in the television program 'Ready Steady goes live!', and in Zurich and Germany during the month of September.

Back in the UK the album 'Out of Our Heads' was released. This record was already released in the USA, where it had earned the Stones a gold disc for having grossed more than a million dollarsworth of sales. For the past six weeks it had been number one in the American album charts. On the British release the tracks were: She Said Yeah, Mercy Mercy, Hitch Hike, That's how b my love is, Good Times, Gotta Get Away, Talking 'Bout You, Cry To Me, Oh Baby, Heart of Stone, The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man and I'm Free. The Rolling Stones sixth tour of the United Kingdom was getting very near and looked very promising. In the beginning of October in the USA a new single was released: Get Off My Cloud , a single with a very commercial beat. The B side was The Singer Not The Song . Sales were colossal. In five days 500.000 copies were sold. In the end of October they went for their fourth tour to the States, beginning in Montreal (29th October) and ending in Los Angeles of December 6th. In the USA a new album was relased 'December's Children' with As Tears Go By. 1965 had been a tremendous year for the Rolling Stones. They had made two sell out tours of the United Kingdom, two of the USA and two of Scandinavia. Australia and New Zealand had been conquered. The Stones' first tour in Germany had been wildly successfull, and riots of enthousiasm had marked thier progress all over Europe. Five of their singles had been million sellers and so were their albums. 1965 had been a year in which the Rolling Stones had made a sensational impact all over the world. 1966 was going to be equally succesfull and even wilder.

Aftermath - 1966

On the 4th of Febrary 1966 their ninth single was released in Great Britain, it was: 19th Nervous Breakdown with as a flip side As Tears Go By, the American hit. It was a great success, number two just three days after it's release. The following week it was number one. After New Zealand and Australia they went on Saturday the 26th of March to the Netherlands (Den Bosch), during that performance there was a mass riot. After that gig they did Brussels, Paris, Stockholm and Danmark. April 6 they flew back to Britain to promote Aftermath, their new album with songs like: Mother's Little Helper, Stupid Girl, Lady Jane, Under My Thumb, Dontcha Bother Me, Going Home, Filght 505, High and Dry, Out Of Time, It's Not Easy, I Am Waiting, Take It Or Leave It, Think and What To Do. For the first time all the tracks were Jagger/Richards compositions and this was the first album on which the Stones had featured a sitar. Many other artists scored hits with songs from Aftermath; Chris Farlowe: Out Of Time, Gene Latter: Mother Little Helper, Searchers: Take It Or Leave It. Other Jagger/Richards compositions were performed by other artists: Satisfaction by Otis Redding, Sitting On A Fence by Twice As Much and and Blue Turns To Grey by Cliff Richards.

In the USA another album was release called: Big Hits, High Tide And Green Grass, it was selling fast; also released in America was a new single: Paint It Black , featuring Brian Jones on sitar, a very unusual record, a fantastic galloping track and a great success all over the world.

On 29th June 1966 the Stones started their fifth Stateside tour. The tour began in Montreal, where they played for 12.000 fans. On 2nd July they played in New York and went to Hollywood after that show. After their American tour and a well earned holiday another single was released: Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow . On the day of the release of that single they started their seventh tour through the UK, on the bill with them Ike and Tina Turner and the Yardbirds. The show in the Royal Albert Hall in London was recorded for another future album. Yes 1966 had been another fantastic year for the Stones, with millions of their records bought all over the world. There had been however riots during their shows in Holland, Belgium, the Far East, France, Sweden Denmark, USA, Canada and Great Britain, but that was all part of their image, whether they liked it or not.

1967- Let's Spend The Night Together

Their first release in '67 was a double A-side: Let's Spend The Night Together and Ruby Tuesday . In the USA Ruby Tuesday was the A-side and the title Let Spend The Night Together was banned by the radio stations so they changed the words to: Let's Spend Some Time Together. On 21th of January a new album was released: Between the Buttons . In the States an album was released called: Got Live If You Want It , the huge sales of that record gained the Stones their fifth consecutive gold disc for an American album. In April they started an European tour, as well as performing in Sweden, Austria, France, Poland and Switzerland, the Stones visited Holland, Germany and Greece. After that tour on 11th May Brian Jones was arrested for the possession of Indian hemp at his flat, he was later release on a bail of 250 pounds. Mick and Keith were arrested for drug abuse, they were charged with a 7000 pounds bail awaiting their trial in September. During those days they went to the studio for the recording of We Love You and an album. Meanwhile the Who released a single with Under My Thumb, and The Last Time as a tribute to Mick and Keith, who were in jail at that time.

We Love You and Dandelion were released as a single at 18th August. We Love You began with the sound of a prison warder's footsteps echoing along a corridor, then came the sound of a cell door being firmly shut.

The Stones in Paris

In the USA Flowers was released and at the end of '67, 15th Decmber to be precise, a new sensational and very progressive album was released: Their Satanic Majesties Request.

For the Rolling Stones 1967 had been a year of upsets and immense successes. In Great Britain they released two singles and two albums. Those records were also on worldwide release. There had been the Jager-Richards drug convictions and succesfull appeals, and the Brian Jones drugs case and appeal. There had been a riotous Continental tour, they had not toured the UK or the States.

The end of the 60's

They started 68 very quiet; there were plans to start with their own record label. During the month of February and March they invited Jimmy Miller to produce several new tracks. The 12th of May they made a suprise appearance in the New Musical Express Poll Concert. They played their new single which was released at the 4th of May: Jumping Jack Flash with the B-side Child Of The Moon. After their performance they worked on a new album to be titled Beggar's Banquet . They planned to release the album on 26th June, Mick's birthday, but the release was posponed several times, because Mick wanted another artist to work on the album sleeve. Mick flew to California to complete the process of dubbing and mixing the album together with Jimmy Miller, later Keith, Charlie and Marianne Faithfull also flew to California. Meanwhile in Hollywood Mick went to a concert of the Doors and he also appeared on stage together with Jim Morrison .

Brian Jones died

In September Mick started to work on his solo project the film: Performance . The album was completed but not released, because the record compagny didn't like the controversial cover of the album; in America there was even more controversy over a Stones release. A track from Beggers Banquet, Street Fighting Man was released as a single; their was quite a stir about the record's title and sleeve (showing pictures of riots in LA). In the second week of November, their album Beggar's Banquet still wasn't released, it was announced that the Stones were planning to produce their own TV show, to be called "The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus" . Invited were Traffic, Taj Mahal, Jethro Tull and Dr John. Just for this TV spectacular the biggest names in pop world would get together to form a supergroup: Mick, Keith, John Lennon, EricClapton and

Mich Miller. Traffic couldn't come, they were replaced by the Who. Also appearing were: Marianne Faithfull and Yoko Ono. On Friday 22nd November Beggar's Banquet was released. The ten tracks on the album were: Sympathy For The Devil, No Expectations, Dear Doctor, Parachute Woman, Jigsaw Puzzle, Street Fighting Man, Prodigal Son, Stray Cat Blues, Factory Girl and Salt Of The Earth.

On Sunday 8th June came a decision that had been predicted in rumours for almost two years. Brain Jones left the group. They agreed that it would be best for Brain to go his own way.The Stones had already decided on a replacement for Brain. He was Mick Taylor a 22 year old guitarist who had been playing for the John Mayall Blues Breakers.On the night of the 2nd July Brain decided to go for a midnight bathe in his swimming pool, his girl friend Anna Wohlin and Frank Thorogood went with him. For twenty minutes Brain swam around, the others went back inside. A little later they found him face-down at the bottom of the pool. All the members of the Stones were informed on Thursday and they were shocked. Brain had been a member of the Stones for seven years. The planned Hyde Park concert was dedicated to Brian, as Mick said: he would have wanted it to go on. One day before the concert Honky Tonk Women and You Can't Always Get What You Want was released as a single. On Saturday 5th July the Stones performed in Hyde Park for a great crowd, an official estimate of three hundred thousand people. Mick read out a poem by Shelley for Brian and after that they started their gig, with some new songs like Midnight Rambler. On Thursday Brian was buried.

For Mick and Marianne Faithfull now came a journey to Australia for the film they were to appear, Ned Kelly, the legendary Australian folk-hero. In London Keith's girl friend Anita Pallenberg gave birth to a son, Marlon. Now on worldwide release was a new Stones album called: Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol 2) with 12 songs on it and a short tribute to Brain on the reverse side of the cover. After filming Ned Kelly Mick went on 16th October with the rest of the group to the States for their sixth tour in the USA. The largest audience to see the Stones on this American tour, was by far the crowd (450.000-600.000 people) at the free concert near San Francisco (Altamont) on Saturday, 6th December. Groups of Hell's Angels volunteerd to guard the group; they stabbed one eigtheen year old to death during an incident just in front of the stage, while Mick was asking everybody to be quiet. This is almost the end of the historic overview of the Sixties with the Rolling Stones just one thing left: the release of another album, their latest in the 60's: Let It Bleed. Tracks on Let It Bleed are: Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, Country Honk, Live With Me, Let It Bleed, Midnight Rambler, You Got the Silver, Monkey Man and You Can't Always Get What you Want. Let It Bleed was selling very well all over the world.

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Brain Jones left the group. The Stones had already decided on a replacement for Brain. Mick Taylor a 22 year old guitarist who had been playing for the John Mayall Blues Breakers.

Picture by Cindy Parkhurst

May 1998 BRIAN JONES the late founder member of The Rolling Stones, is at the centre of a political row in his hometown of Cheltenham which has caught the attention of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Pat Andrews, the guitarist's former girlfriend, launched a campaign last March for a statue to commemorate Jones in the town he was born in, reports The Times newspaper. The Rolling Stone died in a swimming pool accident in 1969 at his property Cotchford Farm, the house where previous owner A.A. Milne wrote the Winnie The Pooh stories, and is buried in Cheltenham.

Cheltenham mayor Les Goodwin is aghast at the proposal. He says: 'Brian Jones wasn't a popular man. He lived in a drug culture. When you remember what this man did in his lifetime, you have to think, 'Does he deserve a statue?'. The local MP for the area Nigel Jones (Liberal Democrat and apparently no relation to the Stone) sent Blair's office details of the situation. The Prime Minister, whose Oxford university band The Ugly Rumours played Stones covers, replied with a message of his support to Pat Andrew wishing her and co-campaigners 'all the best'.

MP Jones says: We were thrilled. Mr Blair is in very good company. Marianne Faithfull also wants to recognise the enormous contribution that Brian made to the '60s. The Prime Minister's support has earned him a lifetime membership of the Brian Jones Fan Club.

July 1999: Swedish Girlfriend Claims Stones' Jones Murdered STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish woman who found Rolling Stones star Brian Jones drowned in his own swimming pool has said she believes the guitarist was murdered. Anna Wohlin, who was Jones's girlfriend at the time of his death 30 years ago, has broken her years of silence with a new book, 'The Murder of Brian Jones,' published this week. Wohlin, now 53, told Swedish newspaper Expressen it had taken her this long to be able to talk about the night of July 3, 1969, when she found 27-year-old Jones' dead in the pool at his luxury farmhouse in Hartfield, England.

'It hurt so much and went so deep. It was as if it had not happened to me,' Wohlin said in the interview. 'I was in such shock that I was sick. Then I repressed it -- I got married.'

A verdict of misadventure was recorded at the inquest into Jones's death, which happened a month after he quit the Rolling Stones. He was believed to have been swimming while under the influence of drink and drugs. But Wohlin, who now runs a woman's clothes shop in Stockholm, insists that by the time of his death Jones had stopped using hard drugs and had cut back on his drinking. She claims builder Frank Thorogood, now also dead, killed Jones in a dispute over money. Thorogood was doing some work for Jones at his farm. This theory gained credibility in 1994 when a recording of an alleged death bed confession by Thorogood came to light. Police briefly re-opened the investigation but with no progress. Wohlin said she decided after her divorce recently to write down her version of Jones's death.

'I felt that I wanted to tell what really happened, mainly for the sake of his son and his closest friends who also believed that he died when he was on drugs. That wasn't true. I knew what was going on,' she said.

They released the live Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out in the fall of 1970. It was their last album for Decca/London, and they formed Rolling Stones Records, which became a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. During 1970, Jagger starred in Nicolas Roeg's cult film Performance (Memo From Turner) and married Nicaraguan model Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, and the couple quickly entered high society. As Jagger was jet-setting, Richards was slumming, hanging out with country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons. Keith wound up having more musical influence on 1971's Sticky Fingers, the first album the Stones released though their new label. Following its release, the band retreated to France on tax exile, where they shared a house and recorded a double album, Exile on Main Street.

The Rolling Stones on tour, 1972

Following Exile, the Stones began to splinter in two, as Jagger concentrated on being a celebrity and Richards sank into drug addiction. The band remained popular throughout the '70s, but their critical support waned. Goats Head Soup (with the hit Angie), released in 1973, reached number one, as did 1974's It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, but neither record was particularly well received. Taylor left the band after It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, and the group recorded their next album as they auditioned new lead guitarists, including Jeff Beck. They finally settled on Ron Wood, former lead guitarist for the Faces and Rod Stewart, in 1976, the same year they released Black N' Blue, which only featured Wood on a handful of cuts. During the mid- and late '70s, all the Stones pursued side projects, with both Wyman and Wood releasing solo albums with regularity. Richards was arrested in Canada in 1977 with his common-law wife Anita Pallenberg for heroin possession. After his arrest, he cleaned up and was given a suspended sentence the following year. The band reconvened in 1978 to record Some Girls, an energetic response to punk, new wave and disco.
The record and its first single, the thumping disco-rocker "Miss You," both reached number one, and the album restored the group's image. However, the group squandered that goodwill with the follow-up Emotional Rescue, a number one record that nevertheless received lukewarm reviews upon its 1980 release. Tattoo You, released the following year, fared better both critically and commercially, as the singles "Start Me Up" and "Waiting on a Friend" helped the album spend nine weeks at number one. The Stones supported Tattoo You with an extensive stadium tour captured in Hal Ashby's movie Let's Spend the Night Together and the 1982 live album Still Life.

Tattoo You proved to be the last time the Stones completely dominated the charts and the stadiums. Although the group continued to sell out concerts in the '80s and '90s, their records didn't sell as well as previous efforts, partially because the albums suffered due to Jagger and Richards' notorious mid-'80s feud. Starting with 1983's Undercover, the duo conflicted about which way the band should go, with Jagger wanting the Stones to follow contemporary trends and Richards wanting them to stay true to their rock roots. As a result, Undercover was a meanspirited, unfocused record that received relatively weak sales and mixed reviews.

Released in 1986, Dirty Work suffered a worse fate, since Jagger was preoccupied with his fledgling solo career. Once Jagger decided that the Stones would not support Dirty Work with a tour, Richards decided to make his own solo record with 1988's Talk Is Cheap. Appearing a year after Jagger's failed second solo album, Talk is Cheap received good reviews and went gold, prompting Jagger and Richards to reunite late in 1988. The following year, the Stones released Steel Wheels, which was received with good reviews, but the record was overshadowed by its supporting tour, which grossed over $140 million dollars and broke many box office records.

In 1991, the live album Flashpoint, which was recorded during the Steel Wheels shows, was released

Following the release of Flashpoint, Bill Wyman left the band; he published a memoir, Stone Alone, within a few years of leaving. The Stones didn't immediately replace Wyman, since they were all working on solo projects; this time, there was none of the animosity surrounding their mid-'80s projects. The group reconvened in 1994 with bassist Darryl Jones, who had previously played with Miles Davis and Sting, to record and release the Don Was-produced Voodoo Lounge. The album received the band's strongest reviews in years, and its accompanying tour was even more successful than the Steel Wheels tour. On top of being more successful than its predecessor, Voodoo Lounge also won the Stones their first Grammy for Best Rock Album. Upon the completion of the Voodoo Lounge tour, the Stones released the live, "unplugged" album Stripped in the fall of 1995. Similarly, after wrapping up their tour in support of 1997's Bridges to Babylon, the group started another live set, No Security (the live album culled from the Bridges to Babylon tour) in 1999 in the States, while the Bridges to Babylon tour restarts in Europe in 1999.

Following the release of Flashpoint, Bill Wyman left the band.

2000-present

The Rolling Stones, 2005.

In 2002, The Rolling Stones released Forty Licks (UK #2; US #2) - a greatest hits album that spanned their career - that contained four new songs recorded with the latter day core band of Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wood, Leavell and Jones. The same year, Q magazine named The Rolling Stones as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", and the 2002-2003 Licks Tour gave people that chance. On 30 July , the band headlined the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to help the city - which they had frequently used for pre-tour rehearsals - recover financially and psychologically from the effects of the 2003 SARS epidemic. It was attended by an estimated 490,000 people. On 9 November , the band played its first ever concert in Hong Kong as part of the Harbour Fest celebration, also for revival from SARS. In November of 2003 the band exclusively licensed the right to sell their new 4-DVD boxed set, Four Flicks, recorded on their most recent world tour, to the U.S. Best Buy chain of stores. In response, other music retail chains (including Tower Records, Virgin Megastore and HMV) pulled all Rolling Stones CDs and related merchandise from their shelves and replaced them with signs explaining the situation.

On 26 July 2005, Jagger's birthday, the band announced the name of their new album, A Bigger Bang (UK #2; US #3), which was released September 6 to typically strong reviews, including a glowing write up in Rolling Stone (often noted for its consistent support of the group). The album included perhaps the most controversial song from the Stones in years, "Sweet Neo Con", a criticism of American Neoconservatism from Jagger. The song was reportedly almost dropped from the album due to objections from Richards, who prefers to avoid music that is overtly political or topical, because he believes that such songs rarely stand the test of time.

The subsequent A Bigger Bang Tour began in August 2005, and visited North America, South America, East Asia in a mixture of venues. In February 2006 the group played the high-profile slot of half-time of Super Bowl XL. By the end of 2005, the tour had set a record of $162 million gross receipts, breaking the previous North American mark also set by the Stones in 1994. Later that month the band played to a massive crowd of 1.5 million (estimate) on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in a free concert. After performances Down Under, Keith Richards went in hospital in May 2006 for brain surgery after an apparent fall from a coconut tree on the island of Fiji, causing a six week postponement in the European leg of the tour. The following month, it was reported that Ron Wood was entering rehab for a couple of weeks following increased recent alcohol abuse. The Stones returned to North America for another round of concerts in September 2006, and are expected to return to Europe in mid-2007. By November 2006, A Bigger Bang Tour had been declared the highest-grossing tour of all time, earning the band $437 million in receipts. The North American leg brought in the third-highest receipts ever ($138.5 million), trailing their own 2005 tour ($162 million) and U2 that same year ($138.9 million).

In November 2006, the band released a tour diary entitled T.O.T.A '75 which chronicles earlier tours from up to thirty years ago. In December of the same year a commercial for a major credit card appeared using the Stones song I'm Free as the background music. In late October 2006, filmmaker Martin Scorsese filmed the Stones during several live performances at New York City's Beacon Theater, featuring an audience that included several world leaders (including former president Bill Clinton), for release as a documentary in 2007 (tentatively titled "Shine a Light").

Personnel

Line-ups

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, percussion
Ian Stewart - piano, keyboards, percussion

with:

Dick Taylor - bass
Trevor Whittaker - rhythm guitar, percussion
Carlo Little - drums
Tony Chapman - drums
Mick Avory - drums

(the Stones did not have a permanent drummer until Charlie Watts joined in early 1963)

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals
Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, percussion
Bill Wyman - bass
Ian Stewart - piano, keyboards, percussion

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals, bass, keyboards
Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, keyboards, sitar, reeds, marimbas, percussion, dulcimer, woodwind, accordion, tamboura
Bill Wyman - bass, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards
Charlie Watts - drums, percussion

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, percussion
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals, bass, keyboards
Mick Taylor - guitar, bass, synthesizer, percussion, backing vocals
Bill Wyman - bass, synthesizer
Charlie Watts - drums, percussion

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals, bass
Ron Wood - guitar, bass, pedal steel, backing vocals, percussion
Bill Wyman - bass, synthesizer
Charlie Watts - drums, percussion

(1993-present)

Mick Jagger - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion, bass, keyboards
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals, bass, keyboards
Ron Wood - guitar, backing vocals, pedal steel, lap steel, bass
Charlie Watts - drums, percussion

Tours

2005/2006 - A Bigger Bang Tour
2002/2003 - Licks Tour
1999 - No Security Tour/Bridges To Babylon Tour
1997/1998 - Bridges To Babylon Tour
1994/1995 - Voodoo Lounge Tour
1989/1990 - Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour
1982 - European Tour 1982
1981 - American Tour 1981
1978 - US Tour 1978
1976 - Tour of Europe '76
1975 - Tour of the Americas '75
1973 - European Tour 1973
1973 - Pacific Tour 1973
1972 - American Tour 1972 (also known as S.T.P. Tour)
1971 - UK Tour 1971
1970 - European Tour 1970
1969 - American Tour 1969 (famous but didn't seem to have a name)
1967 - European Tour
1966 - Australia and New Zealand Tour, European Tour, North American Tour, British Tour
1965 - 1 Far East tour, 4 European tours, 3 British tours, 2 North American tours
1964 - 4 British tours, 2 US tours
1963 - British Tour (as an opening act)

Timeline

October 24, 1936
Bill Wyman was born.
June 2, 1941
Charlie Watts was born.
February 28, 1942
Brian Jones was born.
July 26, 1943
Mick Jagger was born.
December 18, 1943
Keith Richards was born.
June 1, 1947
Ron Wood was born.
January 17, 1949
Mick Taylor was born.
1964
The Animals, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds and other British blues bands achieve success recording American blues; Son House "rediscovered" and performs at the Newport Folk Festival.
January 18, 1964
"That Girl Belongs to Yesterday," by Gene Pitney, enters the Hot 100. Written by Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is their first song to chart in America.
June 1, 1964
The Rolling Stones arrive in America for their first North American appearances.
October 1, 1964
The Rolling Stones launch their second U.S. tour by performing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Though Sullivan swears he'll never have them back, the group performs on the program six times between 1964 and 1969.
OCTOBER 28-29, 1964
The concert film 'The TAMI Show' is recorded in Santa Monica, CA, featuring James Brown, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones and the Supremes.
June 19, 1965
The Rolling Stones score their first #1 on the American charts with "Satisfaction".
June 5, 1966
Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
June 11, 1966
The Rolling Stones reach #1 with "Paint It Black".
February 26, 1967
Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
June 18, 1967
Jimi Hendrix performs at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones introduces him as "the most exciting performer I've ever heard." At the end of his performance, he burns his Fender Stratocaster. "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice," Jimi said. "You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. I'd just finished painting it that day and was really into it." Literally overnight, the Jimi Hendrix Experience become one of the most popular acts in rock music.
July 26, 1968
Decca withdraws the release of the Rolling Stones' 'Beggars Banquet' due to its controversial cover art. The album is released in December.
DECEMBER 11-12, 1968
The Rolling Stones film the 'Rock and Roll Circus', with guests Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Jethro Tull and the Who.
December 12, 1968
Jethro Tull perform in the Rolling Stones 'Rock and Roll Circus'.
July 3, 1969
Brian Jones is found dead in his swimming pool.
AUGUST 15-17, 1969
The year 1969 was the year of the rock festival. The largest was the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held on the weekend of August 15-17 in the tiny town of Bethel, in upstate New York. An estimated crowd of 450,000 attended the event, which featured everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Joe Cocker, to Arlo Guthrie, the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Ravi Shankar and Country Joe McDonald. If Woodstock marked the apex of the hippie movement in America, the Rolling Stones' free concert in Hyde Park did the same for England. Held on July 5, the show drew nearly 300,000 people, the largest gathering in England since V-E Day.
August 17, 1969
Honky tonk Woman (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
August 23, 1969
The Rolling Stones reach #1 with "Honky Tonk Women".
December 1, 1969
A free concert is organized by the Rolling Stones at Altamont Speedway, outside San Francisco. The event turns ugly when sets are disrupted by violence from Hell's Angels, Marty Balin is knocked unconscious, and a concert-goer is stabbed to death.
December 26, 1969
'Let It Bleed' by the Rolling Stones enters the charts.
April 1, 1971
Atlantic announces the signing of the Rolling Stones. The group's recordings will appear on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
May 23, 1971
Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
October 14, 1973
Angie (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
July 30, 1978
Miss You (The Rolling Stones) was a hit.
March 1, 1982
Pete Townshend, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger, Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, the Police and David Bowie kick off the "I Want My MTV" advertising campaign.
1989
The Rolling Stones inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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