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    The Rolling Stones Are An English: Aftermath

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    The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962 and were a pioneering English rock band. They began playing blues and rock covers before writing their own hits like "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Paint It Black". The band experienced lineup changes over the decades but maintained its core of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts. They toured stadiums worldwide for decades and produced commercially successful albums into the 1980s. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and are considered one of the most influential and best-selling bands of all time.

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    The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962 and were a pioneering English rock band. They began playing blues and rock covers before writing their own hits like "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Paint It Black". The band experienced lineup changes over the decades but maintained its core of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts. They toured stadiums worldwide for decades and produced commercially successful albums into the 1980s. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and are considered one of the most influential and best-selling bands of all time.

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    The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962 and were a pioneering English rock band. They began playing blues and rock covers before writing their own hits like "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Paint It Black". The band experienced lineup changes over the decades but maintained its core of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts. They toured stadiums worldwide for decades and produced commercially successful albums into the 1980s. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and are considered one of the most influential and best-selling bands of all time.

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    The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

    The first stable line-up


    consisted of bandleader Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica, keyboards), Mick Jagger (lead vocals,
    harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass guitar), Charlie Watts (drums),
    and Ian Stewart (piano). Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued to
    work with the band as a contracted musician until his death in 1985. The band's primary
    songwriters, Jagger–Richards, assumed leadership after Andrew Loog Oldham became the
    group's manager. Jones left the band less than a month before his death in 1969, having already
    been replaced by Mick Taylor. Taylor left in 1974 and was replaced in 1975 by Ronnie Wood
    who has since remained. Since Wyman's departure in 1993, Darryl Jones has served as touring
    bassist. The Stones have not had an official keyboardist since 1963, but have employed several
    musicians in that role, including Jack Nitzsche (1965–1971), Nicky Hopkins (1967–1982), Billy
    Preston (1971–1981), Ian McLagan (1978–1981), and Chuck Leavell (1982–present).

    The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of bands that became popular in
    the United States in 1964 and were identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of
    the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the band started out playing covers but found
    more success with their own material; songs such as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Paint It
    Black" became international hits, and Aftermath (1966) – their first entirely original album – has
    been considered the most important of the band's formative records.[1] After a short period of
    experimentation with psychedelic rock in the mid-1960s, the group returned to its "bluesy" roots
    with Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main St.
    (1972). It was during this period they were first introduced on stage as "The Greatest Rock and
    Roll Band in the World".[2][3]

    The band continued to release commercially successful albums through the 1970s and early
    1980s, including Some Girls (1978) and Tattoo You (1981), the two best-sellers in their
    discography. During the 1980s, the band infighting curtailed their output and they only released
    two more underperforming albums and did not tour for the rest of the decade. Their fortunes
    changed at the end of the decade, when they released Steel Wheels (1989), promoted by a large
    stadium and arena tour, the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour. Since the 1990s, new material has
    been less frequent. Despite this, the Rolling Stones continue to be a huge attraction on the live
    circuit. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time:
    Voodoo Lounge Tour (1994–1995), Bridges to Babylon Tour (1997–1998), Licks Tour (2002–
    2003) and A Bigger Bang (2005–2007).[4] Musicologist Robert Palmer attributes the endurance
    of the Rolling Stones to their being "rooted in traditional verities, in rhythm-and-blues and soul
    music", while "more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone".[5]

    The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK
    Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the "100 Greatest
    Artists of All Time" list and their estimated record sales is 240 million. They have released 30
    studio albums, 23 live albums and numerous compilations. Let It Bleed (1969) marked the first
    of five consecutive No. 1 studio and live albums in the UK. Sticky Fingers (1971) was the first of
    eight consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard
    Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart. In 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. They still
    continue to release albums to brisk sales and critical acclaim; their most recent album Blue &
    Lonesome was released in December 2016 and reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 4 in the US and
    won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. The group also continues to sell out
    venues, with their recent No Filter Tour running for two years and concluding in August 2019.

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