Keith Richards and Mick Jagger became childhood friends and classmates in 1950 in Dartford, Kent. Д«lue plaque commemorating Jagger and Richards meeting on platform 2 at Dartford railway station in Dartford, Kent on 17 October 1961 They are ranked fourth on Rolling Stone 's list of the Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2019, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones second on their list of the 'Greatest Artists of All Time' based on US chart success. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

The band has won three Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Rolling Stones' estimated record sales of 200В million makes them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Their latest album, Blue & Lonesome (2016), became their twelfth UK number-one album. From Wyman's departure in 1993 to Watts' death in 2021, the band continued as a four-piece core, with Darryl Jones playing bass on tour and on most studio recordings. Both releases were promoted by large stadium and arena tours as the Stones continued to be a huge concert attraction by 2007 they had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Steel Wheels (1989) was widely considered a comeback album and was followed by Voodoo Lounge (1994), a worldwide number one album. The band continued to release successful albums including their two largest sellers: Some Girls (1978), featuring ' Miss You' and Tattoo You (1981), featuring ' Start Me Up'. Taylor was replaced by Ronnie Wood in 1974. (1972), featuring ' Tumbling Dice', and Goats Head Soup (1973), yielding the hit ballad ' Angie', were also best sellers. Sticky Fingers (1971), which yielded ' Brown Sugar' and included the first usage of their tongue and lips logo, was their first of eight consecutive No.В 1 studio albums in the US. That year they were first introduced on stage as 'The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World'. Jones left the band shortly before his death in 1969, having been replaced by guitarist Mick Taylor. Let It Bleed was the first of five consecutive No.В 1 albums in the UK.

They returned to their roots with such hits as ' Jumpin' Jack Flash' (1968) and ' Honky Tonk Women' (1969), and albums such as Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring ' Sympathy for the Devil', and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring ' You Can't Always Get What You Want' and ' Gimme Shelter'. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit ' Ruby Tuesday'/' Let's Spend the Night Together' and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. Aftermath (1966) вЂ“ their first entirely original album вЂ“ is considered the most important of their formative records. They then found greater success with their own material as ' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' (1965), ' Get Off of My Cloud' (1965) and ' Paint It Black' (1966) became international No. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, also being identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Jagger and Richards became the primary creative force behind the band, alienating Jones, who developed a drug addiction that interfered with his ability to contribute meaningfully. After Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager in 1963, he encouraged them to write their own songs. During their formative years Jones was the primary leader: he assembled the band, named it, and drove their sound and image. Their first stable line-up comprised vocalist Mick Jagger, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, guitarist Keith Richards, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. In the early 1960s, the Rolling Stones pioneered the gritty, heavier-driven sound that came to define hard rock. Active for almost six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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