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The Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary

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1beatles1964
Modificato: Lug 12, 2012, 3:22 pm

For those of you who don't know it today is The Stones 50th Anniversary. Imagine if The Beatles could've stayed around for
that long. I hope The Stones never decide to Retire. In Honour of their 50th Anniversary maybe I should change my name to RollingStones1962.It just boggles the mind that they've been able to stay together for so long. They've produced so many great unforgettable songs & albums. Some Marriages don't even last 50 years. My Parents have been Married for 60 years so they have them beat for number of years being together. Ha! Ha! Ha! I wish they could be together for another 50 years. On this very speciall occasion I couldn't help but think of The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band lyrics. It was 40 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught us how to play...

Beatles1964

2geneg
Modificato: Lug 12, 2012, 3:55 pm

Brian Jones. RIP

Ian Stewart. RIP

Mick Jagger.

Keith Richards.

Bill Wyman. A hale and hearty 76 years of age. You go guy.

Charlie Watts

Charlie and Bill comprise two of the three luckiest people in the history of rock n roll. Richard Starkey being the third.

Other people have called themselves Rolling Stones, but those six above are the first to do so.

I like to think of these guys as the ambassadors of geriatric rock. Not in a bad way, mind you.

3Arctic-Stranger
Lug 12, 2012, 5:18 pm

I think Mick Taylor was an excellent, if not short-lived, addition to the band.

4beatles1964
Modificato: Lug 13, 2012, 8:05 am

I have a neighbour from the Frederick, MD neighbourhood we moved out of who said he personally knows the Bassist, Darryl Jones from Chicago. I used to talk to him whenever I'd see him outside or if we were shoveling snow in the Winter time. Maybe I should ask him if he could personally get me an Autographed Picture of the Band or an Autographed copy of The Rolling Stones: 50 Tears of Rock 'n' Roll or if he can get Ronnie Wood to personally Autograph my copy of his book, Ronnie: The Autobiography. Have you ever seen the movie Stoned,about Brian Jones? It's a great movie. I also own Gimme Shelter and the 5 DVD set of The Rolling Stones Just For The Record. This is truly amazing too. Another great movie about a Rock 'n'Roll Legend, though not about The Stones is the Meg Ryan & Val Kilmer movie, The Doors.

Beatles1964

5BTRIPP
Lug 13, 2012, 8:57 am

Re. #2 "Richard Starkey being the third"

It was probably not viewed that way at the time ... Ringo was an established band leader, and possibly better known that the Beatles when he joined them ... it was more like when VanHalen brought in Sammy Hagar than simply filling the seat with an available drummer.

 

6geneg
Lug 13, 2012, 3:02 pm

I don't mean to get into an argument, and with any of the three I suspect at the time they didn't seem lucky, but without Keith and Mick, and to an extent Brian, Charlie and Bill would never have reached the heights they did reach. Same with Ringo. He might have been the leader of a band like Gerry and the Pacemakers, or Peter and Gordon, but he benefited tremendously in terms of popularity by his association with John and Paul.

7Arctic-Stranger
Lug 13, 2012, 3:35 pm

Also Pete Best was the reigning sex symbol of the group when he was ousted.

8rocketjk
Ago 26, 2012, 12:38 pm

#6> It's an interesting conversation and we'll never know, of course, but I remember reading an interview with John Lennon (the Playboy interview, I think) in which he said that Ringo would have been a star with or without the Beatles.

#3> I definitely agree. For my personal taste, although I greatly enjoy just about all their music, the Mick Taylor years were the Stones' apogee