The Rolling Stones: 50 years making History

“I didn´t expect to last until 50 myself, let alone with the Stones. It´s incredible, really. In that sense we´re still living on borrowed time.”

Keith Richards

“It’s incredible to think about working with the same band for fifty years. Of course, members have come and gone over the years, but it is still the Rolling Stones. Inevitably it makes you think about the mortality of it. But here we are making plans and attempting to get things organized for the future!”

Mick Jagger

The Rolling Stones: (left to right) Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts in front of the club where The Rolling Stones had their first gig on 12th July 1962

 Already considered the best rock´n´roll band of all times, with more than 200 albums sold, The Rolling Stones celebrated this past Thursday, 12^th July, 50 years of career. In fact, half century ago the mythical band of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards did their first gig at London´s Marqee Club.

“I remember it because of the trouble we had finding a rhythm section.”

Mick Jagger, to Rolling Stone

In the beginning: 1962

In that historical day that would marked the beginning of the popular music and culture revolution, the then The Rollin´Stones were represented by Mick Jagger on voice and harmonica Keith Richards and Brian Jones on guitar, Ian Stewart, on piano, and Dick Taylor, as bass player. The drums were under the responsibility of Tony Chapman or Mick Avory, an eternal question without an answer (the future bass player, Bill Wyman, that would join the band in December 1962, said that it was Avory, however this one said that it must had been Chapman, because he only had rehearse with The Rollin´Stones a few time and only recognize the band´s name later).

Wyman would join the band in the end of that year and Charlie Watts, drummer, in January 1963. After 1993, The Rolling Stones would be only constituted by Jagger, Richards, Watts and Ronnie Wood, on guitar, although Darryl Jones (bass) and Chuck Leavell (keyboards) also collaborate at live acts and at the studio.

The Rolling Stones´s 50th anniversary logo, by Shepard Fairey

To celebrate the golden jubilee, The Rolling Stones were at the opening of the exhibition at London´s Somerset House, in the past 12^th July, exhibition that it will remain until 21^st August, which presents around 700 unseen photos taken along the several years since the band´s first gig. Still in this celebration spirit it will be release a documentary by the filmmaker Brett Morgen about the band, as well as a book with unique images. The famous artist Shepard Fairey also redesigned the legendary Rolling Stones ´tongue in this context of celebration.

As for the futures of the creators of Angie, at 12^th July, when asked, Keith Richards said the band was preparing a new tour to 2012-2013.

With this, Shout wishes the best congratulations to The Rolling Stones and prays to keep for more 50 years (if the medical advances allowed it).

We end with the classic (I Can´t Get No) Satisfaction from the 1965´s album “Out of Our Heads”, considered by the Rolling Stone magazine the second best song from all times, after Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan, which The Rolling Stones also have a version of.

 

Greetings,

Shout