It’s just rock ‘n roll but I like it! Tonight, i Rolling Stones will ignite San Siro for the only tricolor stage of the Sixty Stones Tour 2022. The first tour in style of the mythological British band, after the restrictions of the pandemic and the disappearance of the historic drummer, Charlie Watts, on August 24th. After the infection from Covid and the postponement of some dates, the legendary frontman Mick Jagger – 79 years old next July 26 – wanted to reassure Italian fans by confirming the Milanese leg of the European tour. A series of live shows to celebrate the 60 years of career of the greatest rock band ever.
The first concert of the Stones was staged (almost) by mistake, the July 12, 1962on the stage of the Marquee Club in London. That night, at 165 Oxford Street, they were to play Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated with Jagger to the item. The group, however, will forfeit to appear on a BBC live broadcast (which Mick did not attend). The founder of the band, Brian Jonestook the opportunity to convince the owner of the club to let him and him go on stage Keith Richards on the guitar, Ian Stweart on the floor, Dick Taylor on bass, Jagger on microphone e Tony Chapman or Mick Avory (the debate on who was present that day is always on) on drums.
Waiting for the epic show of the eternal Stones, here are 20 electrifying curiosities: from the name of the band inspired by a blues classic to Satisfaction written in a hotel room until the time when the Beatles ‘rivals’ gave them a song.
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Andrew Powell / Getty Images1/19The numbers of the Stones
With 25 studio albums released, the Stones have pulverized more than 250 million copies throughout their monumental career. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, the band is the 13th best-selling music artist of all time. The first place goes to their rivals, the Beatles (600 million).
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Paul Barker – PA Images / Getty Images2/19I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction) (1965)
Released as a single, it is the most iconic piece of the Stones. Keith Richards dreamed of the iconic riff while touring the United States and staying at the Fort Harrison Hotel. The guitarist turned on a portable recorder and recorded it on tape before falling asleep again.
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Paul Natkin / Getty Images3/19The name of the band
The Rolling Stones took their name from the Muddy Waters classic, the father of the Chicago bluesas well as the famous music magazine.
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Al Pereira / Getty Images4/19The Rolling Stones logo
Rock’s most famous tongue was inspired by Jagger’s mouth and the tongue of the Indian goddess Kali. To draw it, in 1971, the student John Pasche for only 50 pounds.
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Richard E. Aaron5/19Paint It Black (1966)
Pioneer of the US version of the album Aftermath, the song written by the duo Jagger / Richards seems to speak of a dead lover. On this track, Brian Jones played the sitar, introduced to pop music by the Beatles the year before, in the song Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).
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Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images6/19The debut on tv
It takes place under the spotlight ofEd Sullivan ShowOctober 25, 1964. The band performed Around & Around by Chuck Berry.
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Keystone / Getty Images7/19Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Album trailblazer Beggars Banquet, the controversial passage tells of the extravagant misadventures of Lucifer himself. The text is taken from a passage from the novel The Master and Margherita by Mikhail Bulgakov, which Marianne Faithfull had given to Jagger a short time before.
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Hulton Deutsch / Getty Images8/19Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
The two met for the first time at Wentworth Elementary School: they were just 5 years old. Jagger would have bumped into Richards at a train station seven years later: to add them all, a love of American blues.
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Mark and Colleen Hayward9/19Brian Jones, the kleptomaniac
Before founding the greatest rock band ever, the guitarist with the gold helmet worked in the sports department of the Whitleys department store in London. He was fired for theft.
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David Redfern10/19Jagger and college
The Stones frontman dropped out of economics studies to pursue a career in music.
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Paul Natkin / Getty Images11/19The guitar of Keith Richards
With the Fender Telecaster Blonde (his favorite) in his hands, the music pirate ranks fourth on the list of “100 Best Guitarists” according to Rolling Stone magazine.
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Michael Putland / Getty Images12/19Gimme Shelter (1969)
The song that opens the album Let it bleed also gives the title to the documentary about the 1969 Stones tour, including the Altamont concert in which a fan was stabbed by a Hells Angels security guard. George Lucas, future genius of Star Warswas part of the film crew.
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13/19The Stones like the Drughi
Not everyone knows that the rights of Clockwork Orange were originally sold by Anthony Burgess, the novel’s author, to Mick Jagger, for just $ 500: the singer would play Alex DeLarge with the other Stones in the roles of drughs, based on a screenplay by Terry Southern (Doctor Strangelove And Easy Rider). Jagger, however, then changed his mind, deciding to see the rights to the book at Warner Bros and Clockwork Orange became Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece.
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Aaron Chown – PA Images / Getty Images14/19The cover of Sticky Fingers
The iconic cover of the 1971 album, featuring a pair of jeans with a noticeable bulge on the genitals, is the work of Andy Warhol.
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Michael Putland / Getty Images15/19Angie (1973)
The leading ballad of the album Goats Head Soup. David Bowie’s ex-wife, Angie Bowie, claimed that her song was about her, but both Jagger and Richards denied her.
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Sean Zanni / Getty Images16/19Scorsese is a huge fan of the Stones
Director Martin Scorsese used Gimme Shelter in four of his films and also directed a documentary about the band called Shine A Light.
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Victor Blackman / Getty Images17/19The Beatles ‘rivals’ gave a song to the Stones
The Fab Four wrote a song that ended up being recorded by the “bitter” Stones. Paul McCartney and John Lennon signed I Wanna Be Your Man for Jagger and associates in 1963.
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Michael Putland / Getty Images18/19It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It) (1974)
Credited to the compositional duo Jagger & Richards, the piece also bears the signature of the future guitarist of the Stones, Ronnie Wood who recorded it one evening in the home recording studio. From the point of view of the text, the passage is inspired by Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide by David Bowie.
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Mark and Colleen Hayward19/19The death of Brian Jones, between mystery and Satanism
The founder and guitarist of the Stones died on July 3, 1969, drowned at the bottom of his swimming pool. According to legend, he would be offered as a sacrifice to the devil in exchange for eternal success.
Source: Vanity Fair
