An Illustrated History of Rock Music by Pascal Jeremy

Rolling Stones - the more disgusting the better

Compare the deep and favorable impression left by the Beatles at the Palladium in 1963 with that Rolling Stones in the same place in 1967. According to a long tradition, in the finale of this show, all participants climbed onto the carousel, grimacing idiotically and waving their hands in front of TV cameras. The Beatles have already ridden this carousel. And the Rolling Stones… This is what the Daily Mirror wrote on January 23, 1967: “Last night there was a scandal at the London Palladium: the Rolling Stones refused to ride the traditional carousel at the end of the Sunday TV show. The scandal began 2 hours before the start of the show, during rehearsals. "They insult me ​​and everyone in general," shouted the director of the show, Mr. Albert Locke. Mick Jagger said after the show, "The carousel is not an altar, it's bullshit."

Could this scowling young man be as popular as Paul McCartney? Is his group second only to the Beatles? And could they achieve such popularity by annoying adults, insulting the authorities and generally spitting on everyone and everything? They could and indeed did.

Rolling Stones were the second head of the two-headed pop creature of the 60s. Compare two clippings from the same newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which has the largest circulation in England. When the prim right-wing Daily Telegraph denounced Beatlemania sternly, the Mirror was quick to defend the shaggy foursome: "You have to be a very stupid retrograde not to like the crazy, noisy, funny, beautiful Beatles." A year later, in August 1964, the same Mirror itself acted as a stupid retrograde, smashing the Rolling Stones: “British parents are now unanimous in their dislike of these shaggy personalities. They symbolize rebellion against parents." The Stones and the Beatles were at opposite ends of the spectrum, and the press did everything to oppose them, trying to downplay and gloss over any wrongdoings of the Beatles and exaggerate the slightest deviation of the Stones from recognized norms. They were probably shocked to learn that the Stones and the Beatles are good buddies, and that the Beatles even helped their "rivals" early on in their careers by giving them the song "I Wanna Be Your Man."

And yet, from the very beginning, there was a serious style difference between these two groups. While the Beatles drew their inspiration from rock and roll and smooth black music, the Stones looked to the earlier, rawer tradition of the blues and, especially, rhythm and blues.

Both bands followed much the same path early on, playing in small clubs in front of a clique of their fans and gradually expanding their circle of fans. But the Beatles started earlier and learned faster. They reluctantly, but still compromised - if not in music, then in clothes, crammed into stylish suits, although they felt uncomfortable in them. As John said: “We were ashamed that we were in suits and so clean. We were afraid that our friends would consider us traitors, however, this was partly the case.

When Stones manager Andrew Oldham suggested that they change into neat, clean suits for their first TV appearance on the very prestigious Thank You Lucky Star program to promote their debut CD, Come On, he was met with furious resistance. The Stones just couldn't imagine themselves in the same neat suits. Oldham pleaded, “We have to compromise. TV is not used to people like you. If you come in the same clothes that you perform in clubs, you will not even be allowed into the building.

He managed to win them over. But that didn't help either. A letter from one TV viewer appeared in the newspaper: “I have been watching TV for a long time, but I have never seen such a vile spectacle as the Rolling Stones.” Then Oldham decided: seven troubles - one answer, abandoned attempts to remake the Stones and began to build their public image just on their "vileness". When later asked by a reporter what attracted him to the Stones, he replied, “The music. Sex. The fact that in a few months the public will get fed up with the Beatles and demand something else. I felt that a certain part of the public was hungry for the opposite of the Beatles. The Stones were such an antipode ... In those years, the media inspired the public: you could invite the Beatles to your place for tea, but not the Stones.

Based on this cunning message, Oldham, with the active help of his wards, did everything to present them in the most bad light possible. Long before Johnny Rotten and his fellow Sex Pistols defied public morality, Jagger, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones were tried and fined for defiant behavior by urinating on a gas station wall.

During 1963, as the Beatles soared higher and higher, the Stones attracted attention not with their music or even Jagger's disturbing stage manner, but with their "Neanderthal" appearance and antisocial behavior. Their first single was a solid, very "raw" version of the little-known Chuck Berry song "Come On" ("Come on"). What to choose for the next single, they did not know. The fact is that they needed a hit that would allow them to gain a foothold in the top twenty and gain wider recognition. There was nothing suitable in their rhythm and blues repertoire. And then they gratefully accepted the song “I Wanna Be Your Man” from the Beatles, despite Jagger’s caustic remarks that if the Beatles “sold out”, then they themselves are not going to “crowd before aristocrats who dream of dressing us in terry suits and cutting our hair.” us hair."

"I Wanna Be Your Man" ("I Wanna Be Your Man") is a song from the album "WITH THE BEATLES", where it was performed by Ringo. This is fast, but rather artificial and sugary rock. For the Stones, it was, in fact, a compromise - one they swore never to make. The song was a hit, climbed into the Top 20, and the Stones began their long, controversial, sometimes tragic, but always exciting career. They got into the highest echelons of glory.

In February 1964, the Stones released their third single, which finally established their star status. "Not Fade Away" was the song on the back of Buddy Holly's hit single "Oh Boy". Holly played it in his usual bubbling, hiccupping style, but the Stones worked it out their own way, breaking the melody into staccato chords, adding a wailing blues harmonica (despite the critics' attack, it was still popular!) and heightening the roughness with Jagger's sloppy, slurred voice. .

The sound attracted attention, but it was not the novelty of the sound that attracted the Stones, but Jagger's unusual stage style: his fluid body movements and overtly sexual poses. This annoyed many, but most of the public was delighted. Actually, these were the attempts of a third-rate comedian trying to stir up the audience. The press and other mass media brought down streams of abuse on Jagger. It seemed that all adult England was seized by anti-Stone fever. Journalist Maureen Cleave, a chronicler of many pop events of the 60s, once described Jagger very correctly: “His wild appearance, long hair, huge mouth, slender hips, caricatured girlish face - all this was perceived differently by different people. He was unsociable, impudent, no one knew anything about him, he just stood there, leaving everyone to build their own theories about him.

The image was obvious: aggressiveness, coldness, ugliness. But teenagers liked it. Hits followed one after another: in 1964 "It's All Over Now" and "Little Red Rooster" came out - both of which were reworkings of American rhythm and blues numbers. The only thing the Stones lagged behind the Beatles in was that they didn't write their own material. But in 1965, Jagger and Keats Richard corrected the situation by writing "The Last Time", and then - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - "(I Can't Get) Satisfaction" - magnificent in causticity and causticity. (There are few satirical lines in the history of pop as compact and poignant as this: "This man tells me, 'Your shirt could be whiter!' This is not my man - he smokes a different brand of cigarettes.") by Stone Skip

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Those who do not know such mastodons of the world rock scene as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones can turn around and leave right now. But if you are a reasonable person who has lived in an apartment with a TV for at least a week, then you 100% must have heard the names of these great bands. If you are a fan of their work, then you must have seen their photos more than once, but these are unlikely. While a huge number of photographers spent kilometers of film to sell these photos to fans and representatives of the media, there were pictures that their manager kept in his piggy bank priceless historical footage. Tour manager Bob Bonis kept photos of the Beatles and Rolling Stones tour from 1964-1966 for a long time to suddenly appear in 2015 and offer them to anyone who wants to buy on eBay. The auction will feature around 5,000 photographs, most of which have never been made available to the general public. We invite you to take a look at the most interesting pictures of the very first Beatles tour and other US tours from 1964 to 1966, which were accompanied by Mick Jagger and his "rolling stones".

Upon arrival, the Beatles went straight to the Hollywood Bowl Hotel, only to be surprised to find that their reservation had been canceled, as the management decided that the rabid fans would simply smash the hotel to pieces. Fortunately, the musicians were offered to stay in their mansion (pictured) by actor Reginald Owen. The Beatles stayed at the mansion for exactly 4 days, after which they set off on the next stop of the tour.

McCartney and Lennon prepare to perform backstage, Detroit, Michigan on August 13, 1966

John Lennon during practice with George Harrison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 16, 1966

John Lennon performing in Portland, Oregon, 1965

Young Keith Richards and Mick Jagger pose for a photo

Paul McCartney on a flight from St. Louis, Missouri to New York, where they were scheduled to perform at Shea Stadium on August 23, 1966

Mick Jagger in front of a packed house during a performance

John Lennon, wearing his signature glasses and striped jacket, rests backstage at Shea Stadium, New York, on August 24, 1966.

Paul Macartney reading a newspaper on an airplane

Paul McCartney smiles for the camera during a concert at a packed arena in Bloomington, Minnesota on August 21, 1965.

Mick Jagger in tight red swimming trunks at the Betsy Hotel in Miami during the band's US tour

Due to the Beatles mania at the time in the United States, for the Beatles their very first tour turned out to be extremely successful, which cannot be said about the Rolling Stones, who called their tour nothing but a "disaster".

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The Rolling Stones with Martin Scorsese

Exactly 50 years ago - on July 12, 1962 - the first concert of The Rolling Stones took place at the then-famous London Marquee Club. A few years later, Keith Richards and Brian Jones became the idol of the youth and trendsetters for the "dirty" and defiant image.

It is the most important rebels of the group Jagger and Richads, who went to elementary school together, are the founders of the team. Having met by chance on the street, they found out that they have a common passion - rock and roll. So, together with their mutual friend - Dick Taylor - the guys organized a group called Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Then guitarist Brian Jones joined the band.

The Rolling Stones

In July 1962, the group was invited to television, while playing in various clubs. It was during one of the performances that the band first appeared on stage under the name that everyone now knows - The Rolling Stones. From that moment begins the story of the legend.

Over the years of creativity, the musicians - then Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood joined the group - recorded more than 20 albums and gained scandalous fame, encouraging fights and brawls of fans at their concerts. Their fame as rebels has not faded to this day.

In 2010, The Rolling Stones re-released several of their albums and reached stellar heights, earning the title of "the world's greatest rock and roll band".

A photo album was released specially for the round date, and an exhibition was opened in London, which presents a kind of photo chronicle of the band's phenomenal success. For the 50th anniversary of the band, we decided to recall 10 interesting facts in the history of the band.

1. When the Rolling Stones played a concert on Copacabana Beach in Brazil in February 2006, 1.5 million fans came to listen.

2 . Many believe that the image of bright red lips and a brazen protruding tongue, which became the trademark of The Rolling Stones, was invented by artist Andy Warhol, who designed the logo on the cover of the 1971 Sticky Fingers album. This design was actually created by John Pash in 1970.

Emblem of The Rolling Stones

4. The well-known song of the Sympathy for the Devil band was written under the influence of Mikhail Bulgakov's book "The Master and Margarita". Before writing the song in 1966, Mick Jagger imagined himself as Woland.

5. In the video for The Rolling Stones song Anybody Seen My Baby, the famous actress Angelina Jolie played one of the first roles in her career.

6. The Rolling Stones performed twice in Russia: August 11, 1998 in Moscow and July 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg. Should I wait a third time?

7. The band has released 22 studio albums in the UK (and 24 in the States), 8 live albums (9 in the States) and numerous compilation albums. Everything has sold over 200 million records worldwide.

8. The name The Rolling Stones was coined by guitarist Brian Jones, inspired by the Muddy Waters song Rolling Stone.

9. The famous brawler Keith Richards has an extensive collection of guitars, of which he has more than 3,000. He plans to open a museum dedicated to this musical instrument.

10. Their last tour, A Bigger Bang, ended in London in 2007, during which they played in 32 countries in front of 4.5 million fans, and became the second highest-grossing ($558 million) tour in the history of the music industry. For some time he held the first line of the rating, but the group U2 with the 360 ​​Degree tour displaced the Rolling Stones, earning $ 736.1 million.

It is known that the musicians got together several times for rehearsals. It is not yet clear whether this will result in a "golden" tour - rumors about this in the musical community have been circulating for several years. One can only hope that the musicians will reach Russia for the third time!

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Their work, extremely flexible in terms of reaction to this or that fad and musical fashion, nevertheless, has not undergone significant changes, and the author's style is always recognizable. They draw from the traditional blues, coloring it with every conceivable shade of emotion, rhythm and musical tricks. The list of hits or songs that are an example of a particular genre in the interpretation of the Rolling Stones will be an impressive volume, as well as a list of stars who collaborated with them from the artistic, cinematic, musical, political, mass media and simply bohemian environments. Now The Rolling Stones are an integral part of the history of the 20th century, smoothly flowing into the 21st century.

• Already at the age of nine, Keith Richards sang for the first time in front of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain - as part of a children's choir that performed at her coronation ceremony in 1953.
• Once Jones, Jagger and Bill Wyman publicly peed on the wall of a gas station, for which they were arrested; at photo shoots, the musicians dressed up in provocative women's dresses.
• Jagger, Richards and Jones have been repeatedly arrested for possession of drugs, brought to trial and even received suspended sentences with probation. A question typical of English newspapers in 1964: "Will you let your daughter marry a member of The Rolling Stones?" - fully expressed the attitude of the establishment towards these "bad boys".
• On the cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper "s Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) by The Beatles is depicted, including a rag doll with the inscription: "Welcome the Rolling Stones".
• Ian Dury released a single called Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (Sex, drugs and rock and roll) in 1977, although many believe that this phrase belongs to Mick Jaguerre. But this opinion is wrong.
• The song " Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) was written under the impression of Mikhail Bulgakov's book " The Master and Margarita". Before writing the song in 1966, Mick Jagger himself imagined himself to be none other than Woland, but the book was only translated into English (Marianne Faithful gave Mick this book).
• The portrait of Mick Jagger appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine a record number of times - 15. The first time it happened on August 10, 1968 in the 50th issue.
• In 1968, Mick Jagger tried his hand at cinema, starring in the cult film "Performance" directed by Nicholas Roeg, which was released only in 1970.
• A concert in Hyde Park, two days after the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones in 1969, attracted more than 250,000 spectators. During the show, Jagger released several thousand white butterflies into the sky.
• The image of bright red lips and a brazen protruding tongue, which became the trademark of The Rolling Stones, was not invented by Andy Warhol, as many mistakenly believe because of the first appearance of this logo on the cover of the 1971 album Sticky Fingers, designed by Warhol (and very non-standard: on the sleeve of the record were jeans from the waist to the knees with a real zipper, under which the buyer found the very protruding tongue), and by a lesser known designer John Pash in 1970.
• The records of many famous rock bands (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin) were recorded on the group's mobile studio, known as the Rolling Stones Mobile (1971).
• The 1994 album Voodoo Lounge brought The Rolling Stones their first two (and so far last) Grammy Awards. It was named the best rock album, and the video for the song "Love Is Strong" was named the best short video.
• The Rolling Stones earned the most for their participation in an advertising campaign: Microsoft paid the group $ 8 million for performing the hit "Start Me Up" (an allusion to the Start button - Start) in an advertisement for the Windows 95 operating system.
• The song "She's a Rainbow" was used in advertising for Sony and Apple products.
• Participation in 1997 in the video for the song of The Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby" Angelina Jolie was one of the first roles in her acting career.
• The Rolling Stones performed twice in Russia: August 11, 1998 in Moscow, just before the default, and July 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg.
• Guitarist Keith Richards, who celebrated his 60th birthday in 2003, was called the biggest brawler in the history of rock music by viewers of VH1. As a consistent conductor of the principle "sex, drugs, rock and roll", he is ahead of such competitors as Ozzy Osbourne, Tommy Lee and the Gallagher brothers.
• When playing the role of Captain Jack Sparrow in the films of the Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003-2013), Johnny Depp tried to imitate the walk and manner of speaking of Keith Richards, who is one of his favorite musicians. In the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", at the request of Depp, the musician played the father of Jack Sparrow - Captain Teague.
• The Rolling Stones have the world's most powerful Electro-Voice live set (2004).
• In their 42nd year of existence, The Rolling Stones, record holders of longevity in rock music, embarked on one of the longest tours of their career, A Bigger Bang (2004), which lasted 14 months. The group donated $1 million of their royalties to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
• In 2005, the song "Angie" was used by the German Christian Democratic Union in Angela Merkel's election campaign. Interestingly, without permission from The Rolling Stones or their agents. However, the legal issues of the party managed to settle with the German copyright management agency.
• The first Rolling Stones museum in the world was built in Germany in 2008.
• The song "Sympathy for the devil" is used in Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
• The Rolling Stones top the list of the highest paid artists and bands in the world for private performances.
• Keith Richards has about 3000 guitars in his collection, but now he only plays ten. Keith plans to open a museum of his guitars.
• In the anime "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", Mamoru Hosoda used the name of one of the Rolling Stones songs - "Time Waits for No One" as a slogan

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