The Rolling Stones facts for kids

Quick facts for kids The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones performing at Summerfest in Milwaukee in 2015. Left to right: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Rock blues
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Decca London Rolling Stones Virgin ABKCO Interscope Polydor
Associated acts	The New Barbarians Billy Preston Faces The Pretty Things John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Members	Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts Ronnie Wood
Past members	Brian Jones Ian Stewart Dick Taylor Bill Wyman Mick Taylor

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band that formed in London, England in 1962. The band members were: Mick Jagger (rhythm guitar and vocals), Keith Richards (lead and rhythm guitar and vocals), Brian Jones (lead guitar), Bill Wyman (bass guitar), and Charlie Watts (drums). The band were influenced by American blues and rock musicians like Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters. In the beginning they had their first hits with covers versions of songs of those artists. Along with the Beatles and the Kinks, they helped to lead the British Invasion of the early to mid 1960s.

Their fame rose quickly in 1965 with the song "The Last Time." The song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" became a world-wide hit for the band. It was followed up by songs like "19th Nervous Breakdown" and "Paint It Black". In the 1967 they experimented with a psychedelic music style. But in 1968 they went back to a harder rock style with songs like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women."

In 1969, Brian Jones was fired from the band. A highly respected young blues guitarist named Mick Taylor was named as his replacement. Taylor played on some of the band's most successful songs of the late 1960s and early 1970s including the hits "Brown Sugar", "Tumbling Dice", and "It's Only Rock n' Roll." Taylor left the band in 1974. Ronnie Wood was hired as Taylor's replacement and he has been with the band ever since. Long time bassist Bill Wyman retired from the band in 1992.

The band remained active as a consistently successful recording and touring act throughout the 1980s and 1990s and into the 2000s. In total they have released 25 studio albums, 10 live albums and 92 singles.

In 1989 The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And in 2004 they were ranked number 4 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time."

In 2013 the group performed on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival for the first time.

Images for kids

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  The back room of what was the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London where the Rolling Stones had their first residency in 1963

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  A trade ad for the 1965 Rolling Stones' North American tour

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  Keith Richards, 1972

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  Mick Taylor (pictured in 1972) is, in part, responsible for the Stones' new sound in the early 1970s. Replacing Brian Jones in 1969, Taylor came from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and was a member of the Stones until 1974

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  Bill Wyman, 1975

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  Ronnie Wood (left) and Jagger (right) in Chicago, 1975

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  Jagger in 1976

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  El Mocambo where some of the live album Love You Live was recorded in 1977

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  The Rolling Stones performing in December 1981

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  Richards and Wood during a Stones concert in Turin, Italy in 1982

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  Multiple platinum award for their 1994 album Voodoo Lounge, on display at the Museo del Rock in Madrid

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  Richards in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the Voodoo Lounge Tour, 1995

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  Jagger in Chile during the Voodoo Lounge Tour

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  The Rolling Stones at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, July 2006

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  The Rolling Stones at Twickenham Stadium, London during A Bigger Bang Tour in August 2006

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  The Rolling Stones in 2008 (from left to right: Watts, Wood, Richards, Jagger) at the Berlin Film Festival's world premiere of Martin Scorsese's documentary film Shine a Light

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  Stage set for the 50 & Counting tour at the Prudential Center, New Jersey on 13 December 2012

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  The Rolling Stones performing in Hyde Park, London on 13 July 2013

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  The Stones in Cuba in March 2016. A spokesman for the band called it "the first open air concert in Cuba by a British rock band."

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  A copy of "Micawber", Keith Richards' signature Telecaster model, in the Fender Guitar Factory Museum

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  A Vox Teardrop guitar as used by Brian Jones, on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Sacramento, California

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  Overhead shot of the Stones concert at Washington–Grizzly Stadium in Montana, October 2006. The Stones have had the highest-grossing concert tour three times

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  Runway (pictured in 2012) first appeared in Stones' concerts in 1981

See also

In Spanish: The Rolling Stones para niños