The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones after performing on August 8, 2006.
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genre(s)	Rock and roll, Blues, Country,Rhythm and blues,Reggae,Psychedelia
Years active	1962 – present
Label(s)	Decca Rolling Stones Records Virgin Records
Website	RollingStones.com
Members
Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts Ron Wood
Former members
Bill Wyman Brian Jones Mick Taylor Ian Stewart

The Rolling Stones are an English band whose blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll-infused music became popular during the "British Invasion" in the early 1960s. The band was formed in London in 1962 by Brian Jones, and eventually was led by the songwriting partnership of singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. During their 1969 American tour, the Stones were introduced and have often been referred to subsequently as "The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World", and their early image of unkempt and surly youth is one that many musicians still emulate. The band have released 55 albums of original work and compilations, and have had 37 top-10 singles. They have sold over 200 million albums worldwide. In 1989 the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 they were ranked #4 in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Contents 1 Band history 1.1 Founding: 1960-1962 1.2 1962-1964 1.3 1965-1969 1.4 1969-1974 1.5 1974-1982 1.6 1983-1993 1.7 1993-1999 1.8 2000-present 2 Personnel 2.1 Line-ups 3 Discography 4 Tours 5 Videography 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links

Band history

Founding: 1960-1962

In 1951 Keith Richards and Mick Jagger first met whilst attending Wentworth County Junior School. In 1960, the two became reacquainted while Richards was attending the Sidcup Art College and Jagger was a student at the London School of Economics. With mutual friend Dick Taylor (later of Pretty Things), they formed the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Stones founders Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were active in the nascent London R & B scene; Jones played with the Ramrods and Blues Inc., a band that featured Jagger, Richards and future Stones drummer Charlie Watts. In June 1962 the Stones lineup was Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman. Taylor left the group, which renamed itself The Rolling Stones, after the song "Rollin' Stone" by Muddy Waters.

1962-1964

On 12 July 1962 the group played its first gig at the Marquee club in London, billed as "The Rollin' Stones". The line-up was Jagger, Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart on piano, Taylor on bass and Tony Chapman on drums. Jones intended for the band to play primarily Chicago blues, but Jagger and Richards brought the rock n' roll of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley to the band. After shifting formations, Bassist Bill Wyman and Drummer Charlie Watts became the Stones' long standing rhythm section.

The Beatles recommended the Stones to future manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and encouraged Decca Records to sign the band.. Their first EP and album were comprised primarily of covers drawn from the band's live repertoire. After signing with Decca, the Stones began touring the U.K. and Europe. On their first tour of England, the Stones were packaged with American stars including Ike and Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, The Ronettes, The Everly Brothers and Little Richard.

The first tour also cemented the Stones' shift from a rhythm and blues band to more of a pop band, resulting in a drastic reduction in the number of blues songs the band played live. The Rolling Stones No. 2 (The Rolling Stones, Now! in the United States) (UK #1; US #5) again contained mainly cover tunes, but was augmented by songs composed by Jagger and Richards. After the album's release, the band began a schedule of constant touring.

On their first American tour in June 1964, the Stones began recording almost exclusively in American studios, including Chess Studios in Chicago and RCA Studios in Los Angeles. The Stones also appeared on national variety shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show and the "The Hollywood Palace" where host Dean Martin made fun of their longish hair, which was considered provocative.

1965-1969

The Rolling Stones' first U.K. chart topper was 'It's All Over Now'(1964); the first Jagger/Richards composition to hit #1 in the U.K. was "The Last Time" in early 1965. The U.S. version of that year's Out of Our Heads LP contained seven original songs, including "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", which was the first of many number-one hits for the band. Aftermath (UK #1; US #2) (1966) was the first Stones album to be comprised exclusively of Jagger/Richards songs. Aftermath included the almost twelve-minute long "Going Home", the first extended jam on a chart-topping rock and roll album.

In 1967, Jagger and Richards were arrested during a raid at Richards' home, and were subsequently convicted on 'trumped-up' drug-related charges. The Times protested that the sentences were "...more severe sentence than would have been thought proper..." Shortly thereafter, Richards' conviction was quashed on appeal, and Jagger's prison sentence was reduced to a conditional discharge. In May 1967, shortly prior to the trials of Jagger and Richards, Brian Jones was arrested for the possession of cannabis, cocaine and methamphetamine. He escaped with a fine and probation but was told to seek professional help.

The band recorded a new single, "We Love You", as a thank-you for the loyalty shown by their fans during the trials. The record featured guest appearances on backing vocals from John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and opens with the sounds of footsteps and a cell door banging shut. The promotional film for the song compared the Stones' persecution and trial to that of Oscar Wilde, portraying Jagger as Wilde receiving sentence from Richards' Marquess of Queensberry.

Their Satanic Majesties Request (UK #3; US #2), released shortly after the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , was recorded in difficult circumstances while Jagger, Richards and Jones were in and out of jail. (Unusually, Bill Wyman wrote and sang a track on the album—"In Another Land"—and the front cover of the album had a 3-D sleeve.) Jagger was a strong advocate of the psychedelic sound of the album, but rarely have any songs from the record been played live. Subsequently, the fashion of the times shifted from pyschedelia to a more roots-oriented sound spearheaded by groups like The Band, and the Stones seemed to follow suit.

In May 1968, the single "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and, later that year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5) marked the band's return to its blues roots with new producer Jimmy Miller. Richards started using open tunings, most prominently a 5-string open-G tuning (with the lower 6th string removed), as heard on the 1969 single "Honky Tonk Women", "Brown Sugar" (Sticky Fingers, 1971), "Tumbling Dice", "Happy", (Exile on Main St., 1972), and "Start Me Up" (Tattoo You, 1981). During this time, Brian Jones became less involved with the band, and his inability to tour the U.S. again due to visa troubles led to his removal from the band on June 8. His replacement was the twenty-year-old guitarist Mick Taylor, formerly of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, who started sessions with the band immediately and even replaced Jones' contribution to "Honky Tonk Women". Jones retreated to his Cotchford Farm home in Sussex, where he died in his pool less than a month after his exit from the band.

1969-1974

Despite Brian Jones' sudden death, a scheduled concert in Hyde Park went ahead in front of an audience of 200,000 fans. The band's performance was captured by a Granada Television production team, later to be shown on British television as Stones in the Park. The band had just released their first recording with the new lineup, "Honky Tonk Women". It was released on 3 July 1969, coinciding with the death of Jones, and remains the band's last number-one single in the U.K. Let It Bleed (UK #1; US #3), released in December, contained many songs that became live staples for the band, including "Gimme Shelter", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Midnight Rambler", and Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain".

In November, the band set off on their 1969 U.S. Tour. The tour culminated with the staging of the Altamont Free Concert, at the then-disused Altamont Speedway, located about forty miles east of San Francisco. The concert was a chaotic disaster, due in part to the hiring of a local chapter of the Hell's Angels to undertake general security. Meredith Hunter, a young man, was stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels. The Altamont concert was documented in Albert and David Maysles' film Gimme Shelter.

The live recording Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (UK #1; US #6) (1970) documented this tour. Considered by critic Lester Bangs the best live record ever, the album features the Stones paying their dues to Chuck Berry with renditions of "Little Queenie" and "Carol", staples from their pub days in south London. In 1969, the band's 1963 contract with Decca Records ended, and the Stones formed their own record company.

Sticky Fingers (UK #1; US #1), released in March 1971 as the band's first album on their own Rolling Stones Records label, contained one of their best known hits, "Brown Sugar", the country-influenced "Wild Horses", and a version of "Sister Morphine" on which Marianne Faithfull would be credited a co-writer. Mick Taylor collaborated on several songs with Jagger, partially because of Richards' substance addictions and resulting unreliability. However, all original songs were credited to "Jagger/Richards".

Pressured by the U.K. Inland Revenue service for several years in unpaid income tax, the band moved abroad to the South of France. Richards rented a chateau, Villa Nellcôte, former headquarters for the local Nazi SS during the Second World War, and sublet rooms to the band members and entourage. Using The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio they continued recording a double album that had been started in England, and would be finished in Los Angeles, Exile on Main St. (UK #1; US #1) (1972). Given an A+ grade by critic Robert Christgau and disparaged by Lester Bangs—who reversed his opinion within months—Exile is now commonly accepted as one of the Stones' best albums. The film Cocksucker Blues, never officially released, documents the subsequent, highly publicised 1972 North American ("STP") Tour, with its retinue of jet set hangers-on. The band's early 1973 Pacific Tour saw them banned from playing in Japan and almost banned from Australia.

In November 1972, the band began sessions in Kingston, Jamaica for their follow-up to Exile, Goats Head Soup (UK #1; US #1) (1973). The album would spawn the worldwide hit "Angie", but would prove to be the first in a string of commercially successful but tepidly received studio albums. The sessions for Goats Head Soup would also spawn a number of outtakes, most notably an early version of the popular ballad "Waiting on a Friend", which would not be released until Tattoo You, eight years later. The making of the record was hindered by another legal battle over drugs, this one dating back to their stay in France.

The band went to Musicland studios in Munich to record their next album, 1974's It's Only Rock 'n Roll (UK #2; US #1), but Jimmy Miller, who had drug abuse issues, was no longer producer. Instead, Jagger and Richards assumed production duties, and were credited as "the Glimmer Twins". Both the album and the single of the same name were hits, even without an immediate tour to promote them.

Nearing the end of 1974, Taylor had begun to get impatient because there had been no tours since October 1973. The band found itself in a stalemate, with band members opting to spend their time abroad between recording sessions, while Jagger was getting increasingly exasperated with Richards, whose behaviour was becoming more and more unpredictable. The other members of the band ended up paying the fines and legal bills resulting from Richards' convictions, which also led to the entire band being denied entry to certain countries and missed income for all. Taylor spent his time helping Jagger compose and record songs in the studio, while Richards was often absent. Jagger promised Taylor recognition for his contributions in the form of official credits on tracks from Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock'n Roll. When this did not happen, and with no tour in sight by the end of 1974 and a recording session already booked in Munich to record another new album, Taylor quit The Rolling Stones.

1974-1982

For Black and Blue (UK #2; US #1) (1976), The Stones used the recording sessions in Munich to audition replacements for Taylor. Guitarists as stylistically far-flung as Humble Pie lead Peter Frampton and ex-Yardbirds virtuoso Jeff Beck were auditioned. American session players Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel appeared on much of the album, but the band settled on Ron Wood, who had recorded and played live with Richards and already contributed to the recording and writing of It's Only Rock 'n Roll. Woods eventually left The Faces to commit to the Stones in 1974. The 1975 Tour of the Americas featured stage props including a giant inflatable phallus and a rope on which Jagger would swing out over the audience.

Although The Rolling Stones remained popular through the first half of the 1970s, music critics had grown increasingly dismissive of the band's output, and record sales had failed to meet expectations. However, Keith Richards would have more serious concerns in 1977. Mick Jagger had booked a live recording session at the El Mocambo club in Toronto to balance out a long-overdue live album, 1977's Love You Live (UK #3; US #5), which would be the first Stones live album since 1970's Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!. Richards' addiction to heroin delayed his arrival in Toronto for the session; the other members of the band had already assembled in Toronto, awaiting Richards, and sent him a telegram asking him where he was. Richards and his family flew in from London and were detained by Canada customs after being found in possession of a burnt spoon and hash residue. A day later, armed with legal arrest warrants for Anita Pallenberg, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police discovered "22 grams of heroin" in Richards' room. Richards was charged with importing narcotics into Canada, which carried a minimum seven-year sentence upon conviction. Later the Crown prosecutor conceded that Richards had procured the drugs after arrival. Despite the arrest, the band played two shows in Toronto, only to raise more controversy when the estranged and eventually-divorced wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was seen partying with the band after the show.

The drug case would drag on for over a year. Richards eventually received a suspended sentence and was ordered to play two free concerts for a local charity. This sparked one of Richards' first musical projects outside of the Stones (with more to come as Jagger's own solo interests dawned in the 1980s), as he and Wood formed a band, The New Barbarians, to perform at the shows. This motivated a final, concerted attempt to end his drug habit, which proved largely successful. It also coincided with the end of his relationship with Anita Pallenberg, which had become increasingly strained since the death of their third child (an infant son named Tara) and her own inability to curb her heroin addiction while Keith struggled to get clean.

While Richards was settling his legal and personal problems, Jagger continued his jet-set lifestyle. He was a regular at New York's Studio 54 disco club, often in the company of model Jerry Hall. His marriage to Bianca would end in 1977. By this time, punk rock had become highly influential, and the Stones were increasingly criticised as being decadent, aging millionaires, and their music was considered by many to be either stagnant or irrelevant. The Clash vocalist Joe Strummer even went so far as to declare "no Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones" in their song "1977".

In 1978, the band recorded Some Girls (UK #2; US #1), which included the disco-influenced "Miss You" (a hit single and a live staple), the country ballad "Far Away Eyes", "Beast of Burden", and "Shattered". In part a response to punk, many songs were fast, basic, guitar-driven rock and roll. The group's subsequent US Tour 1978, though dogged by frequently sloppy, drunken performances, was nevertheless a massive success. However, the group did not tour Europe the following year, breaking the routine of touring Europe every three years that the band had followed since 1967.

Entering the 1980s on a renewed commercial high due to the success of Some Girls, the band released its next album Emotional Rescue (UK #1; US #1) in mid-1980. The recording of the album was reportedly plagued by turmoil, with Jagger and Richards' relationship reaching a new low. Richards, more sober than at any time during the previous ten years, had begun to assert more control in the studio again—more than Jagger had become used to—and a power struggle had ensued and clashes were rife. Though Emotional Rescue hit the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, it was panned by critics as a lackluster and inconsistent effort. Following a boggled (due to an extremely drunken Richards) press conference to announce the album's release, the group decided not to tour in support of the album and went on hiatus.

In early 1981, the group reconvened and decided they would tour the U.S. that year, leaving little time to write and record a new album, as well as rehearse for the tour. That year's resulting album, Tattoo You (UK #2; US #1) featured the Stones staple "Start Me Up". Two songs on the album ("Waiting on a Friend" and "Tops") featured Mick Taylor's guitar playing, while jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins played on "Slave" and overdubbed a part on "Waiting on a Friend".

In mid-1981, the band rehearsed for its upcoming U.S. tour at Studio Instrument Rentals (SIR) at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, the site of the former Cheetah Club. During this time at SIR, the Stones recorded the music video "Start Me Up" in rehearsal studio #1. They also recorded the video for "Waiting On a Friend" in the streets of Manhattan's East Village around the same time.

The Stones' American Tour 1981 was their biggest, longest and most colourful stage production to date, with the band playing indoor arenas and outdoor stadiums for over 3 months, and became the highest grossing tour of that year. Some shows were recorded and filmed, resulting in the 1982 live-album Still Life (American Concert 1981) (UK #4 / US #5), and the 1982 Hal Ashby concert film The Rolling Stones: Let's Spend The Night Together.

In mid-1982, to commemorate their 20th anniversary as a band, the Stones took their successful American stage show to Europe. European Tour 1982 was their first European tour in six years. For the tour, the band was joined by former Allman Brothers Band piano player Chuck Leavell, who continues to play and record with the Stones to this day. By the end of the year, the band had signed a new multi-million dollar recording deal with a new label, CBS Records.

1983-1993

Throughout the early and mid 1980s the Jagger/Richards split widened and the band eventually shut down until working relations between Jagger and Richards could be repaired.

Before leaving Atlantic the Stones released in 1984, Undercover (UK #3; US #4) Despite some good reviews the record sold below expectations. Subsequently the Stones signed with new marketer/distributor CBS Records in 1982 which who took over distributing the Stone's Atlantic catalogue.

In 1985, co-founder, pianist, road manager and long-time friend Ian Stewart died of a heart attack. According to Richards, Stewart's death left the band without a moderating force that could have helped the band during a period which, according to Richards, him and Jagger waged "WW III".

By this point, Jagger was spending more time on his solo recordings than on those of the Stones, and much of the material on 1986's Dirty Work (UK #4; US #4) was authored by Keith Richards, with more contributions by Ron Wood than on previous Stones albums. Jagger refused to tour in support of the record. When the Stones were awarded a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement. The sales of Jagger's solo records, She's the Boss (UK #6; US #13) (1985) and Primitive Cool (UK #26; US #41) (1987)), did not sell well, and Richards disparaged them all. With the Stones inactive due to Jaggers solo career, Richards recorded two studio and one live releases with the x-Penesive Winos which fans and critics received well.

In early 1989, The Rolling Stones, including Mick Taylor, Ronnie Wood and Ian Stewart (posthumously), were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jagger and Richards appeared to have developed a new understanding and appreciation for each other, and they recorded a new album as The Rolling Stones, which would eventually become Steel Wheels (UK #2; US #3). Widely heralded at the time as a return to form, which included the hit singles "Mixed Emotions", "Rock And A Hard Place" and "Almost Hear You Sigh". Additionally, the album included the song "Continental Drift", which included playing by musicians from the Moroccan mountain village of Jajouka the Brian Jones had recorded and released a record by.

The subsequent U.S. Steel Wheels Tour saw the Stones touring for the first time in seven years (since Europe 1982), and it was their biggest stage production to date. By the time the massive tour reached Europe in 1990, the tour's name had been changed to the Urban Jungle Tour. Recordings made from the tour produced the 1991 live album Flashpoint (UK #6; US #16). The live album also included two new songs recorded in 1991, the hit single "Highwire" and "Sex Drive". This tour was the last for Bill Wyman who, after years of deliberation and increasing unwillingness to tour any longer, finally left the band in 1993. He then published Stone Alone, a frank autobiography.

1993-1999

After Bill Wyman's departure, the Stones' new distributor/record label, Virgin Records, remastered and repackaged the band's back catalog from Sticky Fingers through Steel Wheels sans the three live albums, and issued another hits compilation in 1993 entitled Jump Back (UK #16; US #30). Along with long-time Stones piano player Chuck Leavell, the band set upon recording their next studio album in 1993. Charlie Watts chose former sideman of Miles Davis and Sting, Darryl Jones, to be Wyman's replacement on Voodoo Lounge (UK #1; US #2) (1994); Jones has toured with the band since.

Various recorded shows and rehearsals (most acoustic) made up Stripped (UK #9; US #9), which featured a cover of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone", as well as infrequently played songs like "Shine a Light", "Sweet Virginia" and "The Spider and the Fly".

The Rolling Stones ended the 1990s with the album Bridges to Babylon (UK #6; US #3), released in 1997 to mixed reviews. Despite the lack of a hit single from the album, sales were reasonably equivalent to those of previous records, and the subsequent international tour Bridges to Babylon Tour that crossed Europe, North America and various other destinations proved the band to be a strong live attraction. Once again, a live album was culled from the tour, No Security (UK #67; US #34), only this time all but two songs ("Live With Me" and "The Last Time") were previously unreleased on any prior live albums. In 1999, the Stones staged the No Security Tour in the U.S., as well, and continued and finished the Babylon tour in Europe.

2000-present

In 2002, The Rolling Stones released Forty Licks (UK #2; US #2), a greatest hits album that spanned their career and 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 2003, 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. The concert was attended by an estimated 490,000 people.

On 9 November 2003, the band played its first concert in Hong Kong as part of the Harbour Fest celebration, also in support of the SARS-affected economy. In November of 2003, the band exclusively licensed the right to sell their new 4-DVD boxed set, Four Flicks, recorded on the band's most recent world tour, to the U.S. Best Buy chain of stores. In response, some Canadian and U.S. music retail chains (including HMV Canada and Circuit City) pulled Rolling Stones CDs and related merchandise from their shelves and replaced them with signs explaining the situation.

On July 26, 2005, Jagger's birthday, the band announced the name of their new album, A Bigger Bang (UK #2; US #3), which was released on 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 overtly political or topical songs 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 and East Asia in a mixture of venues. In February 2006, the group played the high-profile half-time show of Super Bowl XL. By the end of 2005, the Bigger Bang tour had set a record of $162 million in gross receipts, breaking the previous North American mark that had also been set by the Stones in 1994. Later that month, the band played to a massive crowd of 1.5 million (estimated) on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro in a free concert. After performances in Australia, Keith Richards went to the hospital on 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 rehabilitation for several weeks following increased recent alcohol abuse. The Stones returned to North America for another round of concerts in September 2006, and returned to Europe on June 5, 2007. By November 2006, the Bigger Bang tour had been declared the highest-grossing tour of all time, earning the band $437 million. The North American leg brought in the third-highest receipts ever ($138.5 million), trailing their own 2005 tour ($162 million) and the U2 tour of that same year ($138.9 million). . The Stones show in Horsens, Denmark drew 85,000 people, which was the largest audience at any show on the scheduled part of the tour.

In December 2006, 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, for release as a documentary in 2007 (tentatively titled Shine a Light). On March 24, 2007, the band announced a tour of Europe called the "Bigger Bang 2007" tour. June 12, 2007 saw the release of the Stones' second four-disc DVD set entitled The Biggest Bang, a seven-hour document featuring the band's shows in Austin, Rio de Janeiro, Saitama, Japan, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires, as well as extras. As with their first DVD set, the collection will be sold exclusively through Best Buy.

In 2007, Keith Richards played a role in Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End as Captain Teague, Jack Sparrow's father and Keeper of the Pirate's Code. On June 10, 2007, Mick, Keith, Ronnie and Charlie performed their first gig at a festival in 30 years, at the Isle of Wight Festival, to a crowd of 50,000. The Stones are currently continuing their European tour, which is scheduled to conclude at the end of August 2007, in London at The O₂.

Personnel

Line-ups

(1962)	Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, percussion Ian Stewart - piano, keyboards, percussion with Trevor Whittaker - rhythm guitar, percussion Dick Taylor - bass Tony Chapman - drums Carlo Little - drums Mick Avory - drums
(1962-1963)	Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, percussion Ian Stewart - piano, keyboards, percussion Bill Wyman - bass
(1963-1969)	Mick Jagger - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals, bass, keyboards Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals, harmonica, keyboards, bass, sitar, reeds, marimbas, percussion, dulcimer, woodwind, accordion, tamboura, slide guitar, piano, organ, mellotron, xylophone, recorder, clarinet Bill Wyman - bass, backing vocals, percussion, keyboards Charlie Watts - drums, percussion
(1969-1974)	Mick Jagger - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, percussion Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocals, bass, keyboards Mick Taylor - guitar, bass, synthesiser, percussion, backing vocals Bill Wyman - bass, synthesiser Charlie Watts - drums, percussion
(1974-1993)	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, synthesiser 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

Discography

• See: The Rolling Stones discography

Tours

• 2005/2006/2007 - 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 (also known as the Goodbye Britain Tour)
• 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, 1 concert on European Continent (The Netherlands)
• 1963 - British Tour (as an opening act)

Videography

• 1968 : One Plus One (also titled Sympathy for the Devil), film by Jean-Luc Godard(DVD)
• 1969 : Stones in the Park (VHS)
• 1972 : Cocksucker Blues
• 1982 : Let's Spend the Night Together (VHS)
• 1984 : Video Rewind (VHS)
• 1989 : 25x5 - The continuing adventures of the Rolling Stones (VHS)
• 1994 : Live At The Max (VHS)
• 1996 : The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (DVD - concert de 1968)
• 1998 : Live Bridges To Babylon (VHS)
• 2001 : Gimme Shelter (VHS)
• 2002 : Four Flicks (DVD)
• 2006 : Brian Jones & les Rolling Stones (DVD)
• 2007 : The Biggest Bang (DVD)
• 2007 : Shine a Light directed by Martin Scorcese

See also

• List of best-selling music artists
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart
• Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
• The Rolling Stones discography

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22. "Best Buy Brings The Biggest Bang to Life for Rolling Stones Fans"Yahoo!, 30 May 2007

Further reading

• Gered Mankowitz: The Rolling Stones - Out of Their Heads. Photographs 1965-67 and 1982. [ISBN 3-89602-664-X]
• Stanley Booth, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, Chicago Review Press (2000), ISBN 1-55652-400-5
• Stanley Booth, Dance With the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times, Random House (1984), ISBN 0-394-53488-3
• Roy Carr, The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record, Harmony Books (1976), ISBN 0-517-52641-7
• Robert Greenfield, S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones (1974), Reissued De Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 0-306-81199-5
• Greil Marcus, "Myth and Misquotation", The Dustbin Of History, Harvard University Press (1997), ISBN 0-674-21858-2
• James Phelge, "Nankering with the Rolling Stones", 2000. ISBN 1556523734
• The Rolling Stones, According to The Rolling Stones, Chronicle Books (2003), ISBN 0-8118-4060-3
• The Gram Parsons Homepage FAQ
• CBC Digital Archives - The Rolling Stones: Canada gets Satisfaction
• T.O.T.A '75 The official illustrated account of The Rolling Stones Tour of The Americas '75

External links

• Official website
• IORR The Rolling Stones Fan Club of Europe
• The Rolling Stones at MusicBrainz
• The Rolling Stones at Rolling Stone
• The Rolling Stones at Discogs
• The Rolling Stones songs in the charts
• The Rolling Stones at the Internet Movie Database
• Lyrics of The Rolling Stones