Rolling Stones – The World’s Most Successful Concert Artists?
Posted by Music Blog | Posted in Live Concert Tickets | Posted on 14-12-2008
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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?
* The Rolling Stones can take credit for revolutionizing the music industry of the 70s. As it was then, pop music was very popular all of which changed with the Rolling Stones storming the music industry with their classical fusion of Rock and Blues.
* Its lead vocalist, Mick Jagger, has sang in many albums that were worldwide hits, with the first being released in the summer of 1963 (this was Berry’s “Come on”). The Rolling Stones first began their musical career with 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 are the band members of Rolling Stones?
Obviously, the list cannot start without the mention of Mick Jagger who has been at the heart of every Rolling Stones concert with his vocals. Keith Richards, who is the guitarist of the band and also provides backing vocals is also worth mention as he has been associated with the band for more than 45 years now.
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.
With such a class act line-up, Rolling Stones generates mass hysteria amongst people worldwide. And its no wonder that all the Rolling Stones concerts get packed to the rafters.
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