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Rock And Roll Bands: The Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones are one of the most well-known and greatest rock & roll bands of the world. Like the Beatles, they were a British Invasion band. However, they were the opposite of the Beatles. They were bad boys and their songs were dangerous and rebel like about being alone with a lot of rough content. While, the Beatles were the good boys singing about love in the beginning of their career. Some of the members of The Rolling Stones were Mick Jagger as the main vocalist, Keith Richards played the guitar for the band and sang, Bill Wyman the bass player, Charlie Watts as the drummer and Mick Taylor also a guitarist. Throughout the bands active years from the 1960s to 2010s, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards remained in the band for all those …show more content…

With Decca Records and early on the Stones career, the group did a few covers including Chuck Berry’s “Come On” which was there debut single which got to number 21 in the charts of England. However, it was when the band did a cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away” that it rose to number 3 in the top charts of England, and that cover was there first hit in America. Instead of writing the songs for older generations, they wrote the songs for the baby boomers entering their teen years. They became well known in England by doing tours, festivals, those covers and their rivalry with the Beatles. The Rolling Stones would urinate in public of England and were labeled by the public that they are dangerous, rebellious and more sexier and rougher than the Beatles. The band’s first number 1 song on the charts of the United Kingdom was “It’s all over now” in the Spring of 1964. Also, that year they released their first album named “The Rolling Stones” and they started touring in America. One of their songs that they did a version of which was a #1 in the U.K, but it was banned in the U.S which was “Little Red Rooster” due to its inappropriateness. The Rolling Stones cracked superlevel status when Jagger and Richards started composing their own music, especially when they composed “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” in Summer 1965 which was #1 in the U.K for four weeks straight. For satisfaction, they used a Gibson Fuzz box to create an distortion effect. Aftermath, was the group’s first album with all original material, including songs like “Paint It, Black” and “Ruby Tuesday” which both were #1 hits in the U.S. In 1967, with the Beatles releasing Sgt. Peppers the Stones responded by releasing Their Satanic Majestics Request which was psychedelic and not greeted well by audiences. With this bad news of that album they stopped producing psychedelic songs and went back to true Rock & Roll with some

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