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The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), and Keith Richards (guitar, vocals). Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up. Jones led the band until Jagger and Richards assumed leadership after teaming as songwriters. In 1969 Jones' diminishing contributions to the band and his inability to tour, due to medical and legal complications, caused him to leave the band three weeks before drowning in his swimming pool. Jones' replacement Mick Taylor stayed with the band until leaving voluntarily in 1974. Since then Ronnie Wood has been the second guitarist. Wyman retired from the band in 1993; his replacement Darryl Jones has not been made a full member. Stewart was taken from the official line-up in 1963 and continued as the band's road manager and occasional pianist until his death in 1985. Since 1982, Chuck Leavell has been the band's primary keyboardist. First popular in Europe, The Rolling Stones quickly became successful in North America during the British Invasion of the mid 1960s. Having released 22 studio albums in the United Kingdom (24 in the United States), eleven live albums (twelve in the US), and numerous compilations, their worldwide sales are estimated at more than 200 million albums. Sticky Fingers (1971) began a string of eight consecutive studio albums reaching number one in the United States. Their most recent album of new material, A Bigger Bang, was released in 2005. In 1989, the Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004, they ranked number 4 in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones at number ten on "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists", and as the second most successful group in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The emergence of The Rolling Stones has been credited for the greater international popularity of the primitive urban blues typified by Chess Records' artists such as Muddy Waters, who wrote "Rollin' Stone", the song from which the band drew its name. The Rolling Stones' endurance and relevance, critic and musicologist Robert Palmer said, is due to their being "rooted in traditional verities, in rhythm-and-blues and soul music" while "more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone". Though R&B and blues cover songs dominated the Rolling Stones' early material, their repertoire has always included rock and roll.

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Discography

  • Exile on Main St., 1994
  • Brown Sugar / Bitch, 1971
  • 12 x 5, 1986
  • Out of Our Heads, 1965
  • Terrifying / Wish I'd Never Met You, 1990
  • The Rolling Stones, 1984
  • Beggars Banquet, 1968
  • Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert, 1972
  • The History of Rock, Volume 10: The Rolling Stones, 1982
  • Rocks Off!, 1990
  • Emotional Rescue, 1986
  • Live in Leeds 1971, 1991
  • As Tears Go By / Gotta Get Away, 1965
  • Highwire, 1991
  • It's Only Rock 'n Roll, 1986
  • Let It Bleed, 1986
  • Crackin' Up, 1988
  • Sticky Fingers, 1971
  • Between the Buttons, 1967
  • Emotional Rescue / Down in the Hole, 1980
  • Steel Wheels, 1989
  • You Got Me Rocking, 1994
  • Love You Live, 1986
  • 19th Nervous Breakdown / Sad Day, 1966
  • Goats Head Soup, 1973
  • The Rolling Stones, Now!, 1987
  • The Rolling Stones No. 2, 1965
  • More, 1990
  • Still Life: American Concert 1981, 1982
  • Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), 1986
  • Voodoo Lounge, 1994
  • England’s Newest Hit Makers, 1964
  • Tattoo You, 1981
  • The Very Best Of: Platinum 1962-1975, Volume 1, 1995
  • Jumpin' Jack Flash / Child of the Moon, 1968
  • Got Live If You Want It!, 1966
  • Dirty Work, 1986
  • Miss You, 1978
  • Undercover of the Night / All the Way Down, 1983
  • Bridges to Babylon, 1997
  • Out of Tears, 1994
  • Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday, 1967
  • Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? / Who's Driving Your Plane?, 1966
  • Some Girls, 1994
  • Not Fade Away / Little by Little, 1964
  • Tumbling Dice / Sweet Black Angel, 1972
  • Aftermath, 1966
  • Going to a Go-Go (live) / Beast of Burden, 1982
  • More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies), 1986
  • Their Satanic Majesties Single, 1967
  • A Merry Christmas, 1967
  • Highwire / 2000 Light Years From Home, 1991
  • Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane, 1966
  • Rock and a Hard Place / Cook Cook Blues, 1989
  • Come On / I Want to Be Loved, 1963
  • She Was Hot / Think I'm Going Mad, 1984
  • Poison Ivy / Fortune Teller, 1963
  • Flowers, 1967
  • Made in the Shade, 1975
  • It's All Over Now / Good Times, Bad Times, 1964
  • I Wanna Be Your Man / Stoned, 1963
  • Street Fighting Man / No Expectations, 1968
  • Angie / Silver Train, 1973
  • 19th Nervous Breakdown / As Tears Go By, 1966
  • Time Is On My Side, 1964
  • Mixed Emotions / Fancy Man Blues, 1989
  • (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, 1965
  • Handsome Girls, 1993
  • Jump Back: The Best of the Rolling Stones 1971 - 1993, 1993
  • Honky Tonk Women / You Can't Always Get What You Want, 1969
  • Like a Rolling Stone, 1995
  • Undercover, 1983
  • Hot Rocks 1964-1971, 1986
  • It's Only Rock 'n Roll / Through the Lonely Nights, 1974
  • Rewind, 1984
  • We Love You / Dandelion, 1967
  • December’s Children (and Everybody’s), 1986
  • Hot Rocks 1, 1985
  • Paint It Black, 1990
  • Mixed Emotions, 1989
  • Rewind (1971–1984), 1984
  • Tell Me / I Just Want to Make Love to You, 1964
  • Respectable, 1978
  • Get Off of My Cloud / I'm Free, 1965
  • The Last Time / Play With Fire, 1965
  • Live'r Than You'll Ever Be, 1990
  • Little Red Rooster / Off the Hook, 1964
  • Flashpoint, 1991
  • Black and Blue, 1976
  • Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), 1986
  • Metamorphosis, 1975
  • Singles Collection: The London Years, 1995
  • Honky Tonk Women, 1976
  • Start Me Up / No Use in Crying, 1981
  • 1972-07-26: Welcome to New York, 1989
  • Live at the Double Door, 1997
  • Their Satanic Majesties Request, 1986
  • Itchy Fingers, 1995
  • Sucking in the Seventies, 1981
  • Anybody Seen My Baby?, 1997
  • Leed Guitars... T.V. Stars, 1997
  • 1973-02-24: Happy Birthday Nicky: Perth, Australia, 1990
  • Collectibles, 1991
  • Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (disc 2), 1985
  • Time Is on My Side / Congratulations, 1964
  • 1995-05-27: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1996
  • Stripped, 1995
  • The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 1996
  • Little Red Rooster / Surprise, Surprise, 1964
  • Harlem Shuffle / Had It with You, 1986
  • Five by Five, 1964
  • In Another Land / The Lantern, 1967
  • Acetates, 1995
  • Voodoo Brew, 1994
  • Heart of Stone / What a Shame, 1964
  • Heart of Stone, 1992
  • Sad Sad Sad, 1990
  • Collectors' Edition (bonus disc), 1990
  • Best of Live in Concert, 1990
  • Shattered / Everything Is Turning to Gold, 1978
  • Greatest Rarities, Volume 1, 1991
  • Get Satisfaction ... If You Want! (The Best of BBC Radio Recordings 1963-1965), 1988
  • Satisfaction / The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man, 1965
  • The Last Time / Play with Fire, 1965
  • She's a Rainbow / 2000 Light Years from Home, 1967
  • Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones, 1975
  • Ruby Tuesday, 1991
  • Get Off of My Cloud / The Singer Not the Song, 1965
  • Love Is Strong, 1994
  • Brown Sugar / Let It Rock, 1971

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