Stones in 60s
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- The Stones in the 60s
- Indeed all three men were highly enthusiastic devotees of this tradition of black American music and it was by promoting it as popular form that they established their own status among the principal architects of British rock music.
- It was not until the mid-sixties that the Stones concentrated on recording their own, original material.
- The group went through a number of permutations – Bill Wyman joined in December 1962 and Charlie Watts officially from January 1963 – and they became increasingly popular playing clubs and venues in and around London, including the Crawdaddy Club at Richmond.
- In May 1963 the Stones signed a management contract with Andrew Oldham; Oldham finally fixed the line-up of five, added a ‘g’ to their earlier name of the Rollin’ Stones, and arranged a three-year recording contract with impact who in turn signed a release agreement with Decca.
- The 1960s for the Stones ended with two extraordinary and memorable free concerts which in themselves highlighted the contrasts of the era.
- On July 5 1969, just two days after the death of Brian Jones, they presented an open-air performance in Hyde Park, London.
- It was filmed for television as The Stones in the Park and, in tribute to their missing guitarist, Jagger recited Shelley’s resonant lament Adonais and 3,000 butterflies were released. Just five months later, on 6 December 1969, the Stones gave what was intended to be a similar event at the Altamont Speedway, Livermore, California.
- In spite of Oldham’s attempts to mould the group so that they performed in Mod velvet collared jackets and matching ties, he could not disguise their sullen performing style, a rebellious and uncouth image that affronted conservative opinion and contrasted with the more wholesome package offered by the Beatles.
- Music
- Rooster is performed to music recorded by the Rolling Stones between 1964 and 1969.
- The eight pieces selected are well known.
- Two are rhythm and blues standards, the other six are by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
- Jagger and Richards
- On the other the solicitor representing Jagger in a case concerning a driving offence in 1964 pleaded against prejudice in respect of his clients long hair and William Rees-Mogg, in a famous Times editorial (on 1 July 1967 headlined ‘Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?’), protested against the prison sentences handed to Jagger and Richards for the possessions of drugs.
- Although Jagger and Richards had known one another at Wentworth Junior County Primary School, their paths had diverged until a chance reunion on a train led them to reveal a shared passion for rhythm and blues.
- The Stones
- The Stones aroused further controversy by their risqué, aggressive, and sometimes misogynistic lyrics.
- In June 1963 the group released their first single, Come On and I Wanna Be Loved.
- The Rolling Stones date their founding from July 12 1962 when a six-man group including Jagger, Richards and Brian Jones (then calling himself Elmo Lewis) performed at the Marquee Club in London’s West End.
- Effect
- On the one hand eleven Coventry school-boys were suspended in 1964 for having ‘Mick Jagger haircuts’ and in 1965 a Wrexham teacher attacked parents for allowing their sons to wear ‘Rolling Stones’ corduroy trousers.
- The atmosphere however, was charged with a totally different air of tension and the concert is remembered as the occasion when 18- year old Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by Hell’s Angels.
- They certainly divided opinion and constantly aroused debate.
- 1960s
- The 1960s were an era of both aggressiveness and peace and the Stones were caught up with both, as well as the drug-taking, hippie elements of the end of the decade.
- Their repertory at this time was largely inspired by Chuck Berry, Bo Didley and Jimmy Reed.
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