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    Muller October 13, 2015 Keith Richards Keith Richards is a famous English musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor, and most well known for being one of the original members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. He was born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, England, where he was also from. Richards is still alive today and currently 71 years old. He is an only child of Doris and Bertrand Richards. His dad was a factory worker who got injured in World War II. Richards was one of the original members

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    guitar’s then Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones are just for you. Keith Richards was a fantastic English song writer and guitarist. Keith Richards was born on December 18, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England. As a little child Keith was introduced to music (especially the guitar) by his grandfather who toured a jazz band. Ever since that day he has been playing his Guitar in a band called “The rolling Stones”. In Richards early life he was just a regular boy in United Kingdom. Richards had no brothers

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    Rolling Stones History

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    The Rolling Stones Two young men in their mid twenties named Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met at a station and immediately became friends again after going to college together and started a rock band that is now known worldwide and is named The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones was formed in 1962. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards decided to join Ronnie Wood. Mick Jagger was the singer of the band while Keith Richards played guitar and now currently plays piano. The other instruments were played

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    roll bands during the 1960´s. They went through many challenges to become a band, their concerts helped and throughout that process they influenced rock n´ roll. Through thick and thin these guys have always been together. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first crossed paths at Dartford Maypole County Primary School. (The Rolling Stones History).Not long after they were both fans of blues and American R&B, and were friends with a musician, his name was Dick Taylor. Mick Jagger and Dick Taylor were

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    lead vocalist for all tracks, Keith Richards on the

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    The Rock And Roll Band

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    the sixties, The Rolling Stones consisted of Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts. Referring to themselves as the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll band, the song “Rollin’ Stones” written by Muddy Waters is what stemmed into the band 's name. The Stones recorded and sold what is estimated to be more than a quarter million albums until the early 1980s when Jagger and Richard had a fight over musical direction and the group grew apart from each other and did

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    In early 2016, the Stones launched their América Latina Olé tour, which consisted of thirteen electrifying dates in Central and South America. As a dramatic capstone to that trip, the Stones performed in Cuba for the first time, electrifying an audience of 1.2 million fans in Havana. In another historic live performance, the Stones participated in October of 2016 in Desert Trip, a three-day superstar festival in Indio, California that also featured Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, The Who, Neil Young and

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    were also keen followers of fashions. Another reason was that teenagers were fed up of get recycled American bands and the Beatles had there own style and weren't copying American artists like "pop stars" of the 1950's did such as Cliff Richard. And some people believed that in a couple of there songs they encourage drug taking, in songs like " Lucy in the sky with diamonds " which the press took as meaning LSD was a good thing. However to this day John Lennon still insists

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    Even though one song is based off the other, both The Rolling Stones and Devo are able to beautifully capture unique essences of the song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”. The Rolling Stones released the original version of the song in 1965 while Devo’s version was released twelve years later in 1977. In the original version of the song sang by The Rolling Stones, several unique musical characteristics exist which helped establish the song as one of the most recognizable rock and roll songs in history

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    Rolling Stones Influence

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    As the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, said in one of his songs “You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.” This is how The Rolling Stones became known as the World’s Best Rock and Roll Band of all Time. They were giving this title because they were different from other bands, which also made them an multi-award winning band, plus they were given that amazing title. One interesting thing about the Rolling Stones is that they were inspired by

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