The Rolling Stones: An Over Sixty-year Rock Relationship

La historia de la legendaria banda británica nace con la especial relación artística y de amistad que se estableció entre Mick Jagger y Keith Richards hace más de sesenta años. Una fructífera alianza que ha producido treinta álbumes de estudio e innumerables éxitos, y que continúa girando por el mundo y derrochando energía.

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Vocalist Mick Jagger (left) and guitarist Keith Richards in 1972

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+ to bond: hacerse amigos + chance: casual + to drop out: abandonar + performance: actuación + cover songs: versiones + to settle: decidirse + line-up: formación + raunchy: libidinoso + animalistic: bestial + deal: acuerdo + notorious: célebres + raids: redadas + to drown: ahogarse + edge: borde, filo + oblivion: olvido, desaparición + on the rise: en ascenso + well into the millennium: bien entrado el siglo XXI + highest-grossing: que más recauda + late: finales de + amazed: sorprendido + newsstand: quiosco + cease-and-desist letter: carta de cese y desistimiento + to follow up: continuar + to endure: resistir

Mick Jagger met Keith Richards at school in Dartford, Kent and they bonded + to bond: hacerse amigos  over a mutual appreciation of Black American blues and rock. In 1962, after a chance + chance: casual  re-encounter at a train station, Jagger dropped out + to drop out: abandonar  of the prestigious London School of Economics to form a music group with Richards and multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones. They decided on the name The Rolling Stones. 

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The band gave their first performance + performance: actuación  on 22 July 1962 at London venue Marquee International Jazz Club. They began with cover songs + cover songs: versiones , but by the following year had developed their own music, sound and style. The three settled + to settle: decidirse  into a fixed line-up + line-up: formación  with bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts and decided on an image that was the antithesis of that of the Beatles: raunchy + raunchy: libidinoso , rebellious and animalistic + animalistic: bestial .

The Stones became identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. Jagger’s distinctive voice and energetic live performances and Richards’ guitar style led to a deal + deal: acuerdo  with Decca Records. They produced a series of international No. 1 hits, including “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965), “Paint It Black” (1966) and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (1969).

However, they became notorious + notorious: célebres  for their love lives and drug use, and were subject to police raids + raids: redadas . Jones left the band after his drug and alcohol abuse became problematic. Soon afterwards, he died by drowning + to drown: ahogarse  in a swimming pool. 

ANIMOSITY AND REVIVAL

With Mick Taylor now on lead guitar, the Stones produced iconic album Sticky Fingers (1971), introducing the ‘tongue and lips’ logo. It was the first of eight consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the US. However, by the mid-1970s, growing animosity between Jagger and Richards had taken the band to the edge + edge: borde, filo  of oblivion + oblivion: olvido, desaparición . Taylor left and was replaced by Ronnie Wood, but many believed the Stones were over. Incredibly, though, just at a time when digital piracy was on the rise + on the rise: en ascenso , the Stones were back! In 1989, the album Steel Wheels suggested the old friends were working well together again. They began to tour and proved a huge concert attraction. The 1994 album Voodoo Lounge was a massive success. 

NEVER STOP

Well into the millennium + well into the millennium: bien entrado el siglo XXI , The Rolling Stones, with Darryl Jones replacing Bill Wyman, who had retired, were giving the highest-grossing + highest-grossing: que más recauda  concert tours of all time. Their 2016 album Blue & Lonesome became their twelfth UK No.1 album. Charlie Watts died in 2021. But near-octogenarians Jagger and Richards, the veteran bad boys of British rock, continue to write, tour and produce to this day. 

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

In late + late: finales de  1967, Mick Jagger was amazed + amazed: sorprendido  to see a new magazine at a newsstand + newsstand: quiosco  with a name almost identical to that of his band. The Stones were rising stars at the time and the magazine was named in honour of them, of Muddy Waters’ song “Rollin’ Stone” and of Bob Dylan’s song “Like a Rolling Stone”. Initially the band sent a cease-and-desist letter + cease-and-desist letter: carta de cese y desistimiento  to Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, accusing the magazine of copyright violation. However, Wenner was convinced the band would not follow up + to follow up: continuar . Subsequently, a mutually-beneficial relationship developed, which endured + to endure: resistir  for over fifty years. The Stones have appeared on the cover of the magazine thirty times, and it has become a place for the bandmates to explain themselves and their songs, and sometimes even send messages to one another.

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