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The Rolling Stones are a British rock band who rose to prominence during the mid-1960s. The band was named after a song by Muddy Waters, a leading exponent of hard-rocking blues. (This was a popular choice of name; at least two other bands are believed to have called themselves The Rolling Stones before Jagger/Richards' band was formed.) In their music, the Rolling Stones were the embodiment of the idea of importing blues style into popular music. Their first recordings were covers or imitations of rhythm and blues music, but they soon greatly extended the reach of their lyrics and playing, but rarely, if ever, lost their basic blues feel.
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Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts are to begin their Rolling Stones “Bigger Band 2007″ European tour on June 5th in Belgium. But one of their venues for the tour turned out to be a little trickier to secure. The July 14th concert was supposed to take place at the Serbian capital’s Hippodrome racetrack.
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The Rolling Stones crowned themselves “The World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band” in 1969 as a marketing slogan, but they’d long since established it as a fact. Formed in London in 1962, they were a bad-boy alternative to the Beatles; their attitude of defiance and nonchalance became the perennial rock & roll posture. Led by the songwriting team of London School of Economics graduate Mick Jagger and living drug sponge Keith Richards, anchored by bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, the Stones changed styles—Renaissance balladry, psychedelia, disco, country—as often as they changed girlfriends. They remained loyal only to the blues, which they channeled to create dark, swinging, transcendent rock, soaked in sex and decadence. In the ’60s and ’70s, deaths, lineup changes, drug busts and paternity suits threatened to eclipse the music, but ultimately added to their mystique.
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The Rolling Stones were formed in 1962 by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman. Jones died in 1969, and Mick Taylor replaced him. In 1975 Ron Wood took Taylor’s place. Wyman left the band in 1992, but the rest of the lineup has stayed basically intact, making the Stones one of the most enduring rock groups in history.
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The Rolling Stones used the Black and Blue sessions (again in Munich) to audition possible replacements. Guitarists stylistically far-flung as Humble Pie lead Peter Frampton and ex-Yardbirds impresario Jeff Beck were auditioned. American session players Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel appeared on much of the album, but the band settled on Ron Wood, a long time friend of Richards and guitarist with The Faces, whose singer Rod Stewart had recently gone solo. Wood had already contributed to It's Only Rock 'n Roll, but his first public act with the band would be the 1975 American Tour.
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In 1978 Rolling Stones Records signed Peter Tosh, a former member of Bob Marley's band The Wailers to a contract. His first album for the label, Bush Doctor, was moderately successful, mostly due to the appearance of both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the single from the album, "Don't Look Back". Despite further moderate success, Tosh would later exit the label in 1981, citing lack of promotion and a personal feud with the Stones.
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