11-23-19 The #RollingStones & #Tragedy at #Altamont
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Saul Austerlitz, David Dastmalchian
The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for The Devil" - the misconstrued classic + Altamont Free Concert '69 murder + Gimme Shelter - VIDEO
The film is from Altamont Free Concert, December 6, 1969 when the guy Meredith Hunter got killed after pulling a shotgun from his inner jacket, with 2 stab wounds to the back, and 1 above the ear, inflicted by a Hell's Angel's blade, as depicted in the 1970 "Gimme Shelter" film, below. See the Hell's Angel's accounts below in the Wikipedia article, plus the set list, etc..The audio, or music, is from the "Get yer Ya Ya's Out!" lp, recorded at Madison Square Garden 28/11/1968, released 1 Feb. 1969
Mixed At Olympic Sound Studios, London Release Date February 1, 1969
ROLLING STONES - Sympathy For The Devil (Live 1969) HD
Please allow me to introduce myself
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
[Chorus]
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank, held a general's rank
When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all, after all it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
Oh yeah, get down heavy!
[Guitar Solo]
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what's confusin' you is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer
Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
[Instrumental outro with scatting and ad-lib vocals]
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL - BEWARE THE REMIXES - Neptunes + FatBoy Slim versions
Beggars Banquet released (1968)
This song is sung in first person form, with Mick Jagger playing no one else but Satan himself. He documents events through history that could be seen as “works of the devil.” The Rolling Stones took some serious heat for singing a song from the devil’s perspective, but the point of the song is more about the flaws in mankind. It was never intended as devil worship.
What did the devil cause after all of these things?


Who sang the background vocals?
Altamont Free Concert
Altamont Speedway Free Festival | |
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Genre | Rock and folk, including blues-rock, folk rock, jazz fusion, latin rock, country rock and psychedelic rock styles. |
Dates | December 6, 1969 |
Location(s) | Altamont Speedway, California, U.S. |
Founded by | Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden, Grateful Dead[1] |
Attendance | 300,000 (estimated)[2] |
Contents
[hide]Jefferson Airplane/Grateful Dead-centered background narrative[edit]
Rolling Stones/Grateful Dead-centered background narrative[edit]
Security[edit]
Situation deteriorates[edit]
Death of Meredith Hunter[edit]
Reactions[edit]
Set list[edit]
Santana[edit]
- "Savor"
- "Jin-go-lo-ba"
- "Evil Ways"
- "Conquistadore Rides Again"
- "Persuasion"
- "Soul Sacrifice"
- "Gumbo"
Jefferson Airplane[edit]
- "We Can Be Together"
- "The Other Side of This Life" (During the playing of this song Marty Balin was beaten by one of the Hell's Angels)
- "Somebody to Love"
- "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds"
- "Greasy Heart"
- "White Rabbit"
- "Come Back Baby"
- "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"
- "Volunteers"
The Flying Burrito Brothers[edit]
- "Lucille"
- "To Love Somebody"
- "Six Days on the Road"
- "Bony Moronie"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young[edit]
- "Long Time Gone"
- "Down by the River"
- "Sea of Madness"
- "Black Queen"
- "Pre-Road Downs"
The Rolling Stones[edit]
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "Carol"
- "Sympathy for the Devil" (stopped then resumed, due to numerous fights in vicinity of the stage)
- "The Sun Is Shining"
- "Stray Cat Blues"
- "Love in Vain"
- "Under My Thumb" (stopped and abandoned as Hunter is killed, then re-played in its entirety; violence subsides for remainder of concert)
- "Brown Sugar" (debut live performance of the song; studio version recorded only 2 days earlier in Muscle Shoals, Alabama)
- "Midnight Rambler"
- "Live with Me" (naked woman seen in the film attempting to climb onstage actually occurs during this song)
- "Gimme Shelter"
- "Little Queenie"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Honky Tonk Women"
- "Street Fighting Man"
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ Grace Slick, a Biography, Barbara Rowes, p.155
- ^ ab c "300,000 jam musical bash". Chicago Tribune. December 7, 1969. p. 1, sec. 1.
- ^ "Rockfest jams freeway traffic". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. December 7, 1969. p. 2.
- ^ ab c "Biggest rock concert ends". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. December 8, 1969. p. 7.
- ^ Ortega, Tony (2010-08-24). "Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday Village Voice December 18, 1969". Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ "Altamont Rock Festival of 1969: The Aftermath", Livermore Heritage Guild Journal, January/February 2011
- ^ ab c Bangs, Lester; Brown, Reny; Burks, John; Egan, Sammy; Goodwin, Michael; Link, Geoffrey; Marcus, Greil; Morthland, John; Schoenfeld, Eugene; Thomas, Patrick; Winner, Langdon (21 January 1970). "The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ Lydon, Michael (September 1970). "An Evening with the Grateful Dead". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed". Rolling Stone. 21 January 1970. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ ab c d Burks, John (7 February 1970). "Rock & Roll's Worst Day". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "Altamont Rock Festival: '60s Abruptly End", Livermore Heritage Guild Journal, March/April 2010
- ^ Grace Slick, Biography, Barbara Rowes, pp. 155-157
- ^ Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally - Broadway (August 12, 2003) ISBN 0-7679-1186-5
- ^ ab c d e f g h i Curry, David. 'Deadly Day for the Rolling Stones'. The Canberra Times. December 5, 2009.
- ^ ab The Rolling Stones et al. (1970). Gimme Shelter (DVD released 2000). Criterion.
- ^ ab Sragow, Michael (August 10, 2000). "Gimme Shelter: The True Story". Salon.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ "The Rolling Stones". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ ab c Miller, James.Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947–1977. Simon & Schuster (1999), pp. 275–277. ISBN 0-684-80873-0.
- ^ ab McNally, p. 344
- ^ KSAN post-Altamont broadcast, December 7, 1969. 90-minute excerpt from the original four-hour broadcast, taken from the Gimme Shelter DVD, found on YouTube 2017/01/01.
- ^ "Ever since Ken Kesey had invited the motorcycle gang to one of his outdoor LSD bashes, the bikers had been widely regarded as noble savages, barbarians, perhaps, but the best imaginable guardians for the gates of Eden. And at Monterey, a splendid time was guaranteed for all," James Miller, Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947–1977 (1999), 275–76.
- ^ Booth, Stanley (2000). The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (2nd edition). A Capella Books. ISBN 1-55652-400-5.
- ^ The Capital, April 20, 1970
- ^ Osgerby, Bill (2005). Biker: Truth and Myth: How the Original Cowboy of the Road Became the Easy Rider of the Silver Screen. Globe Pequot. p. 99. ISBN 1-59228-841-3.
- ^ Perrone, Pierre (2008-12-05). "Obituary of Baird Bryant". The Independent (UK). Retrieved 22 April 2011.
- ^ Lee, Henry K. (2005-05-26). "Altamont 'cold case' is being closed: Theory of second stabber debunked by Sheriff's Dept". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
- ^ "Movie of Slaying at Rock Fest Is Key Evidence in Coast Trial". The New York Times. 10 January 1971.
- ^ "Investigators close decades old Altamont killing case". USA Today. 2005-05-26. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Mark Hamilton Lytle (2006). America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon. Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 0-19-517496-8.
- ^ "Ill-Fated Altamont Is A Far More Fitting Symbol Of The '60s Than Glorified Woodstock". Hartford Courant. 2009-08-09. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ "Rolling Stones at Altamont BBC 2 Seven Ages of Rock". BBC News. 1969-12-06. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Robert Christgau (July 1972). "The Rolling Stones: Can't Get No Satisfaction". Newsday. Robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Richard Brody, "What Died at Altamont", New Yorker, March 11, 2015.
- ^ Bollon, Mathieu; Lemant, Aurélien (2013). Blue Öyster Cult: la Carrière du Mal. Camion Blanc. pp. 43–47. ISBN 9782357792678.
- ^ ab Gleason, Ralph J. (August 1970). "Aquarius Wept". Esquire. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "[The Maysles] relied for their effects on molding found material, not spending time and money -- which they didn’t have much of at Altamont anyway -- devising a reality 'spectacular'." Michael Sragow, ""Gimme Shelter": The true story". Salon, August 10, 2000.
- ^ "Jagger 'escaped gang murder plot' BBC March 3, 2008". BBC News. 2008-03-03. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
Sources[edit]
- "The Hells Angels Brought Death to Rock and Roll's Worst Day". The Raven Report. 31 October 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016.
External links[edit]
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"Monkey Man" - Rolling Stones 1969 + "Brian Jones found dead" 03 July 1969
"Brian Jones found dead"
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/brian-jones-found-dead/
Obituary: Brian Jones
Not just a guitarist for the Rolling Stones, but an embodiment of the music itself.
Monkey Man (Rolling Stones)
And all my friends are junkies
That's not really true
I'm a cold Italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer [could this be a reference to heroin that needed a few drops of lemon juice [citric acid] added to it in order to facilitate the transformation of said heroin into an injectible item [see below]? Often brown heroin would be bought from, eg. the Notting Hill probably Mafia/Cosa Nostra-related Italians in the squats there at the time, or got on the street eg. from the "Chinatown" Gerrard St. Soho London Triad-related Chinese in the late 70's that needed citric/acetic acid [lemon juice] added to it in order for it to be usable, usually adding just 3 or 4 drops of the juice from a lemon bought from a local shop. Having been arrested often for the possession of said substance back then the forensic reports of actual opiate content of any substance arrested for showed an unsurprising and typical content of only around 15-20% of actual opiate found at any given time, if that...ed.]
What you do?
But I've been bit and I've been tossed around
By every she-rat in this town
Have you babe?
But I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey woman too
I was bitten by a boar
I was gouged and I was gored
But I pulled on through
Yeah, I'm a sack of broken eggs
I always have an unmade bed
Don't you?
Well I hope we're not too messianic
Or a trifle too satanic
But we love to play the blues
But well I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey woman too
Monkey woman too babe
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey man
I'm a monkey
I'm a monkey
I'm a monkey
I'm a monkey
Monkey, monkey
Monkey
Monkey
I'm a monkeyWriter/s: KEITH RICHARDS, MICK JAGGER
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
Page JB1, Fraile JS. Author information - Abstract Preliminary observations and responses to interviews in Valencia, Spain reveal that injecting drug users (IDUs) dissolve heroin before injection with two or three drops of lemon juice. Solution in lemon juice makes heating of heroin in water unnecessary. This pattern apparently developed spontaneously in Spain, but is almost unknown elsewhere in the world. Its implications for IDUs' health remain speculative, but use of lemon juice to dissolve heroin for injection deserves further scientific study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10359229
Different forms of heroin and their relationship to cook-up techniques:
data on, and explanation of, use of lemon juice and other acids. Strang J1, Keaney F, Butterworth G, Noble A, Best D. Author information - Abstract Recent reports of the use of lemon juice in the preparation of heroin for injection have failed to recognize the importance of the different forms of heroin (in the form of the salt or the base) and the impact of this on the chemical manipulation required before injection. One hundred and four opiate addicts in London were interviewed about the forms of heroin (white, brown, etc) and their relationship to cook-up techniques (use of heat and acid). White heroin was typically prepared with water and heat; brown heroin was prepared with acid (citric acid or Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) or lemon juice) and heat; pharmaceutical heroin was prepared with water only (i.e. neither acid nor heat). On the last occasion of heroin use, brown heroin had been the form most commonly used, with over 90% of the sample using citric acid or vitamin C. Lemon juice was rarely used, and heat was almost universally applied in conjunction with lemon juice ["lemon juice was rarely used" - untrue - lemon juice was often used with different types of street smack - how else could one use the sh-t if you have no citric acid to facilitate it? Nearest thing was buying a lemon from a nearby grocer - a common practice then].
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11419488
How citric acid dissolves heroin
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-JWam4KJs
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (full album)
Let It Bleed
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Studio album by The Rolling Stones | ||||
Released | 5 December 1969 | |||
Recorded | November 1968, February–July, October–November 1969 | |||
Studio | Olympic Studios, London; Elektra Studios, Los Angeles; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles[1] | |||
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Length | 42:21 | |||
Label | Decca (UK) London (US) | |||
Producer | Jimmy Miller | |||
The Rolling Stones chronology | ||||
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Singles from Let It Bleed | ||||
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Contents
[hide]Background[edit]
Music and lyrics[edit]
Style and influences[edit]
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A sample of The Rolling Stones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" from Let It Bleed
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Lyrics[edit]
Artwork[edit]
Release and reception[edit]
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Retrospective reviews | |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | A[29] |
The Great Rock Discography | 9/10[28] |
Music Story | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
MusicHound Rock | 5/5[30] |
NME | 9/10[31] |
Rolling Stone | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Track listing[edit]
Side one | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
1. | "Gimme Shelter" | 4:31 |
2. | "Love in Vain" | 4:19 |
3. | "Country Honk" | 3:09 |
4. | "Live with Me" | 3:33 |
5. | "Let It Bleed" | 5:26 |
Total length: | 20:58 |
Side two | ||
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No. | Title | Length |
6. | "Midnight Rambler" | 6:52 |
7. | "You Got the Silver" | 2:51 |
8. | "Monkey Man" | 4:12 |
9. | "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | 7:28 |
Total length: | 21:23 |
Personnel[edit]
- Mick Jagger – lead vocals (all but 7), backing vocals (1, 3, 8), harmonica (1, 6), acoustic guitar (9)
- Keith Richards – electric guitar (all but 3), acoustic guitar (2, 3, 5, 7, 9), backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 8), bass guitar (4), lead vocals (7)
- Brian Jones – congas (6), autoharp (7)
- Bill Wyman – bass guitar (1, 2, 5-9), autoharp (5), vibraphone (8)
- Charlie Watts – drums (all but 9)
- Mick Taylor – slide guitar (3), electric guitar (4)
- Ian Stewart – piano (5)
- Nicky Hopkins – piano (1, 4, 7, 8), organ (7)
- Byron Berline – fiddle (3)
- Merry Clayton – co-lead vocals (1)
- Ry Cooder – mandolin (2)
- Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone (4)
- Jimmy Miller – percussion (1), drums (9), tambourine (8)
- Leon Russell – piano and horn arrangement (4)
- Jack Nitzsche – choral arrangements (9)
- Al Kooper – piano, French horn and organ (9)
- Nanette Workman – backing vocals (3, 9) (not actress Nanette Newman as credited on the LP)
- Doris Troy – backing vocals (9)
- Madeline Bell – backing vocals (9)
- Rocky Dijon – percussion (9)
- The London Bach Choir – vocals (9)
Charts[edit]
Chart (1969–70) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[40] | 2 |
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[41] | 4 |
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[42] | 1 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[43] | 3 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[44] | 2 |
UK Albums (OCC)[45] | 1 |
US Billboard 200[46] | 3 |
Chart (2007) | Peak position |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[47] | 37 |
Chart (2012) | Peak position |
French Albums (SNEP)[48] | 138 |
Certifications[edit]
Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
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Canada (Music Canada)[49] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[50] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[51] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000^ |
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone |
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.timeisonourside.com/lpBleed.html
- ^ Egan, Sean (2005). Rolling Stones and the making of Let It Bleed. Unanimous Ltd. pp. 206–. ISBN 1 90331 877 7.
- ^ Decca. "Inner sleeve credits". Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ ab Davis, Stephen (2001). Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones. New York, NY: Broadway Books. p. 306. ISBN 0-7679-0312-9.
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- ^ Wyman, Bill (2002). Rolling with the Stones. London: Dorling Kindersley. p. 356. ISBN 0-7513-4646-2.
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- ^ ab McPherson, Ian. "Country Honk". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Midnight Rambler". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ Ian. "Let It Bleed". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ Heckman, Don (28 December 1969). "Pop: No, The Rolling Stones are Not Fascists; Mick's Not Fascist". The New York Times. p. D24. Retrieved 21 June 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Let It Bleed". AllMusic. Archived from the originalon 2 October 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ "The Rolling Stones Top 10 Albums" > "2. Let It Bleed". mojo4music.com. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
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- ^ McPherson, Ian. "You Can't Always Get What You Want". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Monkey Man". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Let It Bleed". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "You Got the Silver". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ McPherson, Ian. "Live with Me". www.timeisonourside.com. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
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- ^ Higgins, Chris. "How Mick Jagger Got Dissed By M.C. Escher". Mental Floss. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
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External links[edit]
- Let It Bleed at Discogs (list of releases)
- Manager Andrew Loog Oldham publicized The Stones by asking "Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?" He was positioning them as bad boys as opposed to the goody-goody Beatles. Contrary to popular belief, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were actually friends. Though at the time, The Stones were illustrated as being the anti-Beatles for publicity, the two bands were on very good terms. They even attribute some of their early accomplishments to the other; for instance, The Stones got their first recording contract from Decca on the suggestion of George Harrison to Decca's head man. The Beatles admired the Stones for their refusal to wear the matching stage suits that the Beatles dawned to win affection from the fans, and Brian Jones' ability at playing the harmonica. (thanks, Emily - Philadelphia, PA)
- Piano player Ian Stewart, considered the "6th Stone," was not an official member of the group because manager Andrew Loog Oldham felt he didn't fit the Stones image. He died of a heart attack in 1985.
- In 1968, The Stones taped a British TV special called Rock and Roll Circus. It featured music and circus performances, with guests Jethro Tull, John Lennon, Taj Mahal, and The Who, among others. Lennon's first performance without the Beatles, it never aired on TV, but was released on video in 1995.
- In 1989, Bill Wyman opened a restaurant in London called Sticky Fingers.
- Their long hair was considered outrageous in 1963. They took out a Christmas ad in a paper saying "Best wishes to all the starving hairdressers and their families."
- Jagger and Richards did a lot of drugs. Brian Jones did enough to kill him, but Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts stayed mostly clean.
- The Stones are named after Muddy Waters' "Rollin' Stone Blues." Blues artists like Waters had a strong influence on The Stones.
- They almost became a Rock and Roll casualty in 1963 when their van skidded off a bridge, but it didn't flip over. Their road manager and piano player Ian Stewart was driving.
- Brian Jones was found dead in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969. The coroner's report listed "death by misadventure." He had major drug problems and left the band a few weeks earlier.
- When Mick Taylor left in 1975, The Stones considered Jeff Beck, Wayne Perkins, Havey Mandel, Rory Gallagher, and Peter Frampton before deciding on Ron Wood.
- Richards was arrested for heroin possession in 1977. As part of his sentence, he played 2 shows for blind children in Toronto with The New Barbarians, a group he formed with Ron Wood, Stanley Clarke, Bobby Keys, Joseph Modeliste, and Ian McLagan. Richards was facing a long jail sentence but got off easy. He thinks the judge went easy on him after hearing from a blind girl who Richards helped go to Stones shows.
- Their 1981 world tour was the first tour to be sponsored. Jovan perfume paid them $4 million. Kimo Kekeahuna-Vail, the Hawaiian Kahuna, shaman and impresario, served as executive producer of the tour and convinced Mick Jagger and The Stones to take on a sponsorship. Kahuna never sponsored another Rock act because, as he said... "How can you top touring with the gods." Kahuna followed up with award winning tours sponsorships with Julio Iglesias/Coca-Cola and then Willie Nelson/Wrangler Jeans, creating the genre of tour sponsorship. (thanks, Kahuna - Maui, HI)
- In 1983 Jagger was commissioned to write his autobiography. After the first manuscript, he gave back his advance and quit the project.
- Most of their songs were credited to Jagger/Richards. This angered Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman, who did not receive writing credit for their contributions. Ron Wood got occasional credits.
- The Stones did not appear as a group at Live Aid, but Jagger did duets with David Bowie and Tina Turner, and Richards and Wood played with Bob Dylan.
- They are the highest earning rock band in history. Their concerts have grossed over $750 million.
- It is rumored that Bill Wyman coined the term "Groupie" during their 1965 Australian tour.
- In 1971, the powers that be behind the production of A Clockwork Orange briefly toyed with the idea of casting Jagger in the lead role as Alex and having the rest of the Stones along as his "droogs." Yeah, that could have been Mick sitting their with his eyeballs propped open screaming "Me glazzies!"
- Jagger was knighted in 2002. Richards thought it was very hypocritical of him to accept the honor, since the Stones have always been critical of the British monarchy and English law.
- Jagger (on their music): "It's a noise we make. That's all. You could be kind and call it music." (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)
- Before joining The Stones, Brian Jones used the stage name Elmo Lewis. He was in the duo Lewis and Ponds with Paul Jones, who used the name "Paul Pond." Paul Jones was offered the job of Stones lead singer, but turned it down. (thanks, whitney - Houston, TX, for above 2)
- In 2002, The Stones played a private concert for a Texas investor named David Bonderman, who also hired John Mellencamp and Robin Williams to perform. The show was in honor of his 60th birthday, and The Stones' fee was $7 million.
- They were the headliners of the most-attended concert in Canadian history. They headlined the SARS benefit show in Toronto in July, 2003. Some of the supporting bands in the lineup included AC/DC, Rush, and the Guess Who. (thanks, Kyle - Wingham, Ontario, Canada)
- Their famous tongue logo was inspired by the Indian Hindu goddess Kali The Destroyer. It was designed by John Pasche, who was a student at the Royal College of Art in London when he got a gig designing a poster for The Stones 1970 European tour. Mick Jagger was wowed by the poster, so he asked Pasche to create a logo for their new record label. Jagger suggested Kali as a starting point, and Pasche incorporated Mick's mouth into the design. The logo first appeared on the inner sleeve of the Sticky Fingers album. The cover of that album was designed by Andy Warhol, who is sometimes mistakenly credited with creating the lips logo.
- Jagger (1983): "I'm totally anti-nostalgia; I never listen to old Rolling Stones records. I'm not really interested in them. They're funny, sometimes, to hear." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
- Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up together in Dartford, Kent, in England. They went to the same primary school together (very similar to children's' daycare) but parted when they went on to different grammar schools. They met up again in their late teens at a train station, when Keith noticed Jagger carrying some blues records under his arm. Blues, which were inaccessible in England at the time, were Mick and Keith's mutual passion.
- The Stones' most infamous drug bust occurred at Redlands, Keith Richards' English estate. Richards was holding a house party with a large number of guests, of whom was Mick Jagger and his girlfriend at the time, Marianne Faithfull. (George Harrison also attended, but left conveniently before the police arrived.) Mick and Keith were arrested after amounts of LSD and other drugs were found in their possession. They were both sentenced with significant jail time, but their charges were dismissed after a newspaper editor published an article condoning the court for issuing unfairly harsh punishments for a relatively minor offense, with an alleged bias against their growing fame. (thanks, Emily - Philadelphia, PA, for above 2)
- They were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in January 1989. In his acceptance speech, Jagger honored 2 people who were not presently with the band: Brian Jones and Ian Stewart.
- Ron Wood's brother Ted was in the band The Temperance Seven, who had a hit with "You're Driving Me Crazy" in 1961.
- Jagger was knighted in 2003 for "services to popular music." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 3)
- The Rolling Stones don't go on tour without their snooker table. In addition, the rock stars asked for video games and a ping pong table in their USA '97-'98 rider. For the 2005 "A Bigger Bang" tour the band has dropped video games for watching cricket on satellite or cable TV. The latter rider also reveals what names the rock singers give to their dressing rooms backstage: Mick Jagger's is "Workout," Charlie Watts has "Cotton Club," Ron Wood is in "Recovery" and Keith has "Camp X-Ray."