The Rolling Stones
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The Rolling Stones began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late '60s, and few disputed the claim. The Rolling Stones' music, based on Chicago blues, has continued to sound vital through the decades, and the Stones' attitude of flippant defiance, now aged into wry bemusement, has come to seem as important as their music.
In the 1964 British Invasion they were promoted as bad boys, but what began as a gimmick has stuck as an indelible image, and not just because of incidents like Brian Jones’ mysterious death in 1969 and a violent murder during their set at Altamont later that year. In their music, the Stones pioneered British rock’s tone of ironic detachment and wrote about offhand brutality, sex as power, and other taboos. In those days, Mick Jagger was branded a “Lucifer” figure, thanks to songs like “Sympathy for the Devil.” In the ’80s the Stones lost their dangerous aura while still seeming “bad” - they’ve become icons of an elegantly debauched, world-weary decadence. But Jagger remains the most self-consciously assured appropriator of black performers’ up-front sexuality; Keith Richards’ Chuck Berry–derived riffing defines rock rhythm guitar (not to mention rock guitar rhythm); the stalwart rhythm section of Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts holds its own; and Jagger and Richards continue to add to what is arguably one of the most significant oeuvres in rock history.
On September 26, 2007, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones made $437 million on their “A Bigger Bang Tour” to list them in the latest edition of Guinness World Record.
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they are the best and the oldest …...touring band today
Without a single doubt THE greatest band EVER – With the greatest frontman EVER !
Mick Jagger is GOD !
Still the Greatest Rock ‘n Roll Band ever.
Rivalled only by Led Zeppelin
i CAN ’T UNDERSTAND WHY ONLY 23 OF US THINK SO ! i thought it was an established fact
if it wasn't for Brian Jones the stones wouldn't even exist.
the wouldn't of made it without brian.
he was a musical genius - but he was taken so early he'd be the king of music right now.
miss you brian you are god looking over me. must dash. xxxx
One of the best sixties psychedelic albums http://bestuff.com/stuff/their-satanic-majesties-request :)
love the stones they rock
one of my favorite bands :]
i luv them, luv their songs 'paint it black' and 'sastifaction', they're amazing!