10 Interesting facts about The Rolling Stones |
# | Top 10 Interesting Facts |
1 | Early in the band's history Jagger and Richards formed a songwriting partnership and gradually took over leadership of the band from the increasingly troubled and erratic Jones. |
2 | Mick Taylor replaced an incapacitated Jones shortly before Jones's death in 1969. |
3 | Taylor quit in 1974, and was replaced in 1975 by Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood, who has remained with the band ever since. |
4 | Wyman left the Rolling Stones in 1992; bassist Darryl Jones, who is not an official band member, has worked with the group since 1994. |
5 | The Rolling Stones have released 22 studio albums in the UK (24 in the US), eight concert albums (nine in the US) and numerous compilations; and have album sales estimated at more than 200 million worldwide. |
6 | In the early 1950s Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent They met again in 1960 while Richards was attending Sidcup Art College. |
7 | With mutual friend Dick Taylor (later of Pretty Things), they formed the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. |
8 | Jones named the band The Rollin' Stones to pay tribute to "Rollin' Stone" by Muddy Waters |
9 | The LP also included a Jagger/Richards original - "Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" - and two numbers credited to Nanker Phelge, the name used for songs composed by the entire group. |
10 | The Rolling Stones were scheduled to play at a free concert in London's Hyde Park two days after Brian Jones's death; they decided to proceed with the show as a tribute to Jones. |