Most Influential Band: The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones have become one of the most influential bands of all time. Many bands from the sixties are long gone, but the Rolling Stones continue to perform rock music fifty years later to this day. They have far exceeded the normal career span of any other rock band ever and continue to be very successful. The Rolling Stones are a rock band from London that formed in 1962 and are one of the bands that were part of the British Invasion. The Rolling Stones became known for their style of music and the way they played it on the stage. A lot of people saw the Rolling Stones as the anti-Beatles because their music was very controversial, while the Beatles refrained from creating controversial music. The Rolling Stones is a rock and roll band that originated from London. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were both friends since they were young children back in 1951. They soon lost contact when both their families moved away. Years later in October 1960, they happened to bump into each other at a train station. Jagger was a student at a school for economics in London and he had his own band called Little Boy Blues and the Blue Boys. Jagger was a huge fan of blues music and Keith Richards was more of a fan of Chuck Berry’s style of rock and roll. After Jagger and Richards talked, he soon joined Mick’s band. Later while going around some …show more content…
It was not until April 1966 when they released the album, Aftermath, which all the songs in the album were written by Jagger and Richards. Like their previous singles, all the songs in the album created a lot of controversy in the United States. One song from the album that created the most controversy was “Let’s Spend the Night Together”. It is said in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website the song, “engendered controversy in the States for the bluntly sexual come-on of its title and lyrics” (R&R