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The Rolling Stones - The World's Best-Selling Concert Artists?
1962 was a revolutionary year for the music industry. Five people came together to take the music industry absolutely by storm - a storm which has not lowered in intensity to this day.
1962 was a revolutionary year for the music industry. Five people came together to take the music industry absolutely by storm - a storm which has not lowered in intensity to this day.
These five people are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (on guitar), Ian Stewart (on piano), Charlie Watts (on the drums), and Bill Wayman. They comprise the popular group known as the Rolling Stones. The group has since produced 55 albums, 200 million copies of which have been sold all over the world.
Why are the Rolling Stones so popular?
* In the 70s, pop music was the fashionable and popular musical genre. The Rolling Stones changed this with their classical fusion of Rock and Blues taking the music world by storm. As such, they are credited for revolutionizing the music industry at that time.
*The Rolling Stones’ lead vocalist, Mick Jagger, has lent his voice to quite a number of albums that turned out to be worldwide sensations. The first was Berry’s “Come on”, which was released in the summer of 1963. The group’s first foray into the musical world was a gig at the Marquee Club in London in 1962.
* Rolling Stones members as a general rule lasted with the group for at least two decades or so. A case in point is Keith Richards, who was the group’s lead guitarist and provided backing vocals for Mick Jagger. He started in 1963 and is around up to now.
* Better still, even now he provides backing vocals to Mick and strums on the guitar. This long term association of most of its band members has enabled Rolling Stones to preserve its style of music over a long period of time.
Who make up the Rolling Stones?
Of course, it is but natural that Mick Jagger gets the first mention, since he is the key vocalist in all of the Rolling Stones’ concerts. He is the heart of the group. Keith Richards is next in line as the band’s lead guitarist and back-up singer. He has been with the band for over 45 years.
The latest Rolling Stones concert also witnessed Charlie Watts on the drums and percussion and Ron Wood handling the guitar, pedal steel and the lap steel for the band. This combination of the big 4 has been around for the last 33 years of Rolling Stones musical history.
It is no wonder, then, the Rolling Stones concerts are always popular hits, with the group causing worldwide musical madness and hysteria. Their enduring charisma stills gets their concerts packed to the rafters.